The questions on both exams measure competency in the CRSS & CPRS Performance Domains (Advocacy, Professional/Ethical Responsibility, Mentoring/Education, & Wellness/Recovery Support).
Competencies are the measurable knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors critical to successful job performance. Therefore, the CRSS & CPRS exams measure both an individual’s knowledge and their ability to make decisions based on recovery support principles. In other words, the exam questions test an applicant’s knowledge of “facts” that can be memorized and the applicant’s ability to understand and apply those “facts” to the tasks of recovery support.
There are three types of questions on the exams:
- Recall: Remember facts, concepts, and ideas
- Comprehension: Demonstrate your understanding of the meaning of facts, concepts, and ideas
- Application: Show you understand how to apply your understanding of facts, concepts, and ideas to a sample scenario
Both exams:
- Consist of 100 multiple choice questions
- Allow applicants up to two hours to complete
- Provide the applicant with their score immediately upon completion
Information specific to the CRSS Exam:
- Owned by the Illinois Certification Board
- CRSS Study Guide2 available (from the Illinois Certification Board)
- Exam may be available remotely if travel to testing site presents a significant hardship
- Exam questions are confidential; no approved “sample tests” are available
- 100 questions randomized from a pool of 200; each test-taker will have a different set of questions
- Minimum passing score: 68
- Scores range from 0-100 points.
Information specific to the CPRS Exam:
- Owned by The International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium3(IC&RC)
- CPRS Candidates Guide4 includes helpful information pertaining to the exam.
- CPRS Study Guide5 available (from the Rhode Island Certification Board)
- Minimum passing score: 500
- Scores range from 200-800 points.
