Okay so I've been putting off writing this but I feel like I owe it to this community because you guys genuinely helped me get through this. I failed the RTA exam in October and again in January — both times I ran out of time on the situational judgment section and completely blanked on the regulatory stuff. I was studying maybe an hour a day from random notes I'd found online and honestly kidding myself that it was enough.
What finally clicked was treating it like an actual prep campaign. I found a solid RTA study guide that broke the competency framework down into digestible chunks, and I started doing timed RTA practice test sets every single day for about six weeks. Averaging maybe 90 minutes a day. My practice scores went from 58% to consistently hitting 78–82% before I sat the real thing.
Passed with an 81% last week. A few exam tips that genuinely made a difference: don't ignore the legislative knowledge section (I was), and always read the full scenario before looking at answer choices. Happy to answer questions if anyone's in the same boat I was.