{"id":159,"date":"2020-03-24T01:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/Blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2021-07-09T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:23:12","slug":"what-is-the-bcrpa-personal-trainer-exam-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/what-is-the-bcrpa-personal-trainer-exam-format\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the BCRPA Personal Trainer Exam Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BCRPA Personal Trainer Exam Format<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/Blog\/10-fitness-theory-exam-topicsweightings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"10 Fitness Theory Exam Topics &amp; Weightings\">Fitness Theory exam<\/a>, the BCRPA Personal Trainer exam is a little bit more complicated.\u00a0 Rather than being 100% focused on multiple-choice questions, there are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>60 Multiple Choice Questions worth 1 Mark each<\/li><li>3 Match-up Questions worth 5 Marks each<\/li><li>1 Case Study Question worth 60 Marks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the passing grade for the Personal Trainer exam?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes a total of 135 marks with a passing mark of 70% (94\/135).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the duration of the exam?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You have 3 hours to complete the exam.&nbsp; Here are the estimated times required for each section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multiple Choice: 60-90 minutes<\/li><li>Match-ups: 20-30 minutes<\/li><li>Case Study: 40-60 minutes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This should give you a good guideline on how much time you should be spending on each section of the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Trainer Exam Weighting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The exam covers 7 main topics.&nbsp; Here is a rough breakdown of the topic weightings on a percentage and \u201c# of questions\u201d basis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Exercise Science: this makes up 20% of your exam or 12 Questions<\/li><li>Nutrition: this makes up 10% of your exam or 6 Questions<\/li><li>Program Design, Implementation, Methods &amp; Equipment: 30% or 18 Questions<\/li><li>Counselling &amp; Motivational Skills: 10% or 6 Questions<\/li><li>Safety &amp; Injury Prevention: 10% or 6 Questions<\/li><li>Professional Responsibility &amp; Risk Management: 10% or 6 Questions<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this helps you prepare for your BCRPA Personal Fitness Trainer exam.\u00a0 If you are looking for study materials or for some help with your exams, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhpedu.com\/courses\/bc-fitness-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fhpedu.com\/courses\/bc-fitness-theory\">online fitness courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCRPA Personal Trainer Exam Format Unlike the\u00a0Fitness Theory exam, the BCRPA Personal Trainer exam is a little bit more complicated.\u00a0 Rather than being 100% focused on multiple-choice questions, there are: 60 Multiple Choice Questions worth 1 Mark each 3 Match-up Questions worth 5 Marks each 1 Case Study Question worth 60 Marks What is the&#8230; &raquo; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/what-is-the-bcrpa-personal-trainer-exam-format\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gabin-vallet-YxCrQm9XNgg-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhpedu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}