Is this Respiratory Therapist mock exam really free?

Yes. All 25 questions, your score, the domain breakdown and the full worked answers are free, with no sign-up and no email required. The paid bank is a separate, much larger set of 508 questions.

Are these real Respiratory Therapist exam questions?

They are original questions written to the official Respiratory Therapist blueprint and drawn from our full bank - not leaked or recalled items, which would breach exam security and are frequently out of date. They match the real exam's format, difficulty and domain weighting.

What is the pass mark for the Respiratory Therapist exam?

60%, for DHA exam RES5882. The authority reports only pass or fail - your actual score is never released to you, which is why a diagnostic like this is the only way to see where you stand.

Does passing this mock mean I will pass the real exam?

No, and we will not claim otherwise. 25 questions cannot predict a full-length paper. What it does reliably show is which blueprint domains you are currently weakest in.

How many attempts do I get at the real exam?

Three in total across all UAE authorities under the Unified Professional Qualification Requirements - not three per authority. Each attempt costs roughly AED 880.

What topics does the Respiratory Therapist exam cover?

The published blueprint splits into 13 domains covering 254 testable sub-topics: Cardiopulmonary Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology, Patient Assessment & Clinical Data Evaluation, Arterial Blood Gases, Acid-Base Balance & Oxygenation Assessment, Pulmonary Function Testing, Diagnostic Procedures & Chest Imaging, Oxygen Therapy, Medical Gas Delivery, Humidity & Aerosol Therapy, Airway Management & Artificial Airways, Mechanical Ventilation: Initiation, Management & Liberation, Airway Clearance, Lung Expansion & Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Respiratory Pharmacology & Medication Administration, Neonatal & Pediatric Respiratory Care, Critical Care, Emergency Response, Resuscitation & Transport, Equipment Assembly, Troubleshooting & Quality Control, Patient Safety, Infection Prevention, Professionalism, Ethics & Scope of Practice. The full weighting table is on this page.

How long is the Respiratory Therapist exam and how many questions?

150 (DHA RES5882); other GCC authorities commonly 100-150 single-best-answer MCQs. Duration: 3 hours (180 minutes) for DHA; DOH/MOHAP/QCHP/NHRA/OMSB typically 150-180 minutes. Question count, duration and pass mark vary by authority and must be confirmed against the current candidate bulletin.

Do I need to create an account to take this mock exam?

No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no payment. The questions, your score, the domain breakdown and the full worked answers are all free, and nothing is held back behind a form.

Free Respiratory Therapist mock exam

25 real questions from our Respiratory Therapist bank, timed at the exam’s own pace, scored against the 60% pass mark. You will see exactly which of the 13 blueprint domains you are weakest in - free, no sign-up.

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Sit 25 real questions at real exam pace

These are 25 genuine questions taken from our Respiratory Therapist bank - one from each domain on the official blueprint. You get 72 seconds per question, which is exactly the pace of the real RES5882 exam (30 minutes for 25). At the end you will see which domains you are weakest in, and the full worked reasoning for every question.

25: questions
30:00: time limit
60%: pass mark

A short diagnostic cannot predict whether you will pass - only the real exam does that. It will show you, honestly, where you currently stand.

What the real Respiratory Therapist licensing exam looks like

Respiratory Therapists applying to practise in the UAE sit a computer-based multiple-choice examination - DHA exam code RES5882, delivered through Prometric for DHA, MOHAP and SHA, and through Pearson VUE for DOH Abu Dhabi. The pass mark is 60%, and the result is reported to you as pass or fail only - your score is never released.

The paper is built to a published blueprint, which is why a domain-by-domain diagnostic is more useful than a raw percentage. Your questions above were drawn one per domain across Cardiopulmonary Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology, Arterial Blood Gases, Acid-Base Balance & Oxygenation Assessment, Airway Management & Artificial Airways, Critical Care, Emergency Response, Resuscitation & Transport and 9 more - the same areas the real paper weights.

Before you can book the exam at all you need Dataflow primary source verification of your degree, licence and experience, which typically runs several weeks. Candidates routinely underestimate this and end up sitting the exam sooner after study than they planned. Check where you stand with our free eligibility checker or confirm whether your title even requires an exam using the Prometric exam checker.

You get three attempts in total across all UAE authorities - not three each - under the Unified Professional Qualification Requirements. At roughly AED 880 per attempt, plus the licensing delay each failure adds to your visa and start date, the cost of going in underprepared is not really the exam fee.

What is on the Respiratory Therapist exam: the full blueprint

The published blueprint splits into 13 domains and 254 testable sub-topics. The diagnostic above samples across all of them, which is why its breakdown maps onto the structure the real paper is built from.

Cardiopulmonary Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology~7%19 topics
est.
Patient Assessment & Clinical Data Evaluation~10%20 topics
est.
Arterial Blood Gases, Acid-Base Balance & Oxygenation Assessment~8%19 topics
est.
Pulmonary Function Testing, Diagnostic Procedures & Chest Imaging~7%20 topics
est.
Oxygen Therapy, Medical Gas Delivery, Humidity & Aerosol Therapy~7%19 topics
est.
Airway Management & Artificial Airways~7%19 topics
est.
Mechanical Ventilation: Initiation, Management & Liberation~13%20 topics
est.
Airway Clearance, Lung Expansion & Pulmonary Rehabilitation~6%19 topics
est.
Respiratory Pharmacology & Medication Administration~7%20 topics
est.
Neonatal & Pediatric Respiratory Care~6%19 topics
est.
Critical Care, Emergency Response, Resuscitation & Transport~6%20 topics
est.
Equipment Assembly, Troubleshooting & Quality Control~6%20 topics
est.
Patient Safety, Infection Prevention, Professionalism, Ethics & Scope of Practice~10%20 topics
est.

Questions: 150 (DHA RES5882); other GCC authorities commonly 100-150 single-best-answer MCQs
Duration: 3 hours (180 minutes) for DHA; DOH/MOHAP/QCHP/NHRA/OMSB typically 150-180 minutes
Pass mark: 60% (DHA); most GCC authorities set 60%, some allied-health technician-grade exams 50-55%

DHA code RES5882; other authorities vary. Computer-based single-best-answer MCQs with one correct option of four. DHA (Dubai) delivers via Prometric (exam code RES5882, 150 items, 3 hours, 60% pass). DOH Abu Dhabi delivers its licensure assessments through Pearson VUE. MOHAP (UAE federal), QCHP/DHP (Qatar), NHRA (Bahrain) and OMSB (Oman) run closely aligned Prometric assessments but each authority sets its own item count, time limit and cut score, so logistics MUST be verified against the current candidate information bulletin. SCFHS (Saudi Arabia) registers respiratory therapy under allied health with classification-linked exams (technician / specialist / senior specialist / consultant) delivered via Prometric; blueprint emphasis shifts upward in complexity with classification level. Eligibility for all authorities requires DataFlow primary-source verification of qualifications and experience. No GCC authority publishes a per-domain percentage blueprint for respiratory therapy; the weights below are evidence-based estimates anchored to the NBRC Therapist Multiple-Choice (TMC) Detailed Content Outline - the internationally recognised entry-to-practice standard (140 scored + 20 pretest items, 3 hours) that GCC item banks mirror. NBRC's own three-section split is Patient Data Evaluation and Recommendations 50/140 (~36%), Troubleshooting and Quality Control of Devices and Infection Control 20/140 (~14%), and Initiation and Modification of Interventions 70/140 (~50%); NBRC also mandates a minimum of 3 pediatric and 2 neonatal items. Several GCC authorities accept NBRC CRT/RRT as an exam-exemption or eligibility credential, which is why the TMC outline is the safest anchor for item writing.

A worked Respiratory Therapist exam question

Every question in the diagnostic and in the paid bank is written to this standard: a clinical stem, four plausible options and the reasoning for the answer, with its source.

Cardiopulmonary Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology

A patient has a mean pulmonary artery pressure of 30 mmHg, a pulmonary artery occlusion pressure of 10 mmHg and a cardiac output of 5 L/min. What is the pulmonary vascular resistance in Wood units, and how should it be classified?

A2 Wood units - normal
B4 Wood units - elevated, indicating precapillary pulmonary hypertensionCorrect
C6 Wood units - normal for a ventilated patient
D8 Wood units - elevated, but explained entirely by left heart failure

Why: PVR = (mPAP - PAOP)/CO = (30 - 10)/5 = 4 Wood units, well above the normal value of about 1-3 (roughly 3 Wood units is the current diagnostic threshold for precapillary disease). A normal occlusion pressure of 10 mmHg excludes left heart failure as the cause, and 4 Wood units is not a normal value in any ventilated patient.

Source: 2022 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension (Eur Heart J, 2022)

How to use this diagnostic properly

1Sit it cold, once. Do not look anything up. A diagnostic you help yourself through tells you nothing. The number you get is only useful if it is honest.
2Read every rationale - especially the ones you got right. Getting a question right by elimination is not the same as knowing it. The worked reasoning is free above, whether or not you buy anything.
3Work weakest domain first. The breakdown orders your domains worst-first for exactly this reason. Studying what you are already good at feels productive and moves nothing.
4Re-sit under full exam conditions later. The real paper is far longer than this and stamina matters. Full-length timed papers are what the paid bank is for.