This guide explains the ARRT Radiography examination as ARRT publishes it — its structure, its scoring, and its content specifications — and how the PassProfessor program maps onto each part.
Format and scoring
The Radiography examination presents 230 items in 230 minutes of test time. Of those, 200 are scored and 30 are unscored pilot items mixed in indistinguishably. Results are reported as a scaled score from 1 to 99, and the passing standard is a scaled score of 75. A scaled standard cannot be converted into a percentage of questions answered correctly — which is why this program scores practice against a 70% benchmark and labels it as a benchmark.
Content breakdown
Every category and subcategory in ARRT’s specifications is covered at its published count. The bank’s counts, and what a full practice exam draws from each:
- Patient Care: Patient Interactions and Management — 330 practice questions; 33 per full practice exam
- Safety: Radiation Physics and Radiobiology — 210 practice questions; 21 per full practice exam
- Safety: Radiation Protection — 290 practice questions; 29 per full practice exam
- Image Production: Image Acquisition and Evaluation — 260 practice questions; 26 per full practice exam
- Image Production: Equipment Operation and Quality Assurance — 250 practice questions; 25 per full practice exam
- Procedures: Head, Spine and Pelvis Procedures — 180 practice questions; 18 per full practice exam
- Procedures: Thorax and Abdomen Procedures — 200 practice questions; 20 per full practice exam
- Procedures: Extremity Procedures — 280 practice questions; 28 per full practice exam
How to prepare with this program
A full practice exam draws 200 scored questions — the scored length of the real exam — across all eight categories at ARRT’s published counts, inside a 230-minute limit that matches the real test time. Practice exams are scored against a 70% practice benchmark: the real exam is scored on a 1-99 scaled scale with a passing standard of scaled 75, which has no percentage equivalent, so treat the benchmark as a practice target, not the ARRT standard.
Work the section drills first to find weak areas, then take full timed practice exams as your date approaches. Because every attempt draws a fresh set from the full 2,000-question bank, your scores track what you know rather than what you have memorized.
Two things to know about scope. First, this program is built on ARRT’s content specifications implemented January 1, 2022 — the specifications in force for current appointments. Second, the real exam includes questions keyed to displayed radiographic images; this bank states all image content in the question text, so you practice the same positioning, anatomy, and image-evaluation decisions in written form.
Verified questions
Every question in this program is original — written for PassProfessor from the official exam blueprint, never copied from a test bank or another provider’s materials. Before enrollment opened, each answer key was independently verified: reviewers re-answered sampled questions blind, disagreements were settled against the primary sources, and every numeric answer was recomputed from first principles. Questions whose facts could not be confirmed were removed, and the bank passed a text-overlap screen. Practice exams draw a fresh, blueprint-weighted set from the full bank on every attempt, so no two practice exams are the same.
Free study sheet (PDF): Download the ARRT Radiography study sheet — exposure factors, grid conversion, dose limits, positioning landmarks, and image-quality factors on two printable pages