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TRP1b: reading rules once and keeping them

Three minutes with a passage of procedure, then it is taken away and you answer eighteen questions on it. Everything depends on how you spend those three minutes.

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Trainability for Rules and Procedures is not a memory test in the party-trick sense. It is a prediction: you are about to spend months being handed rule books, and the operator wants to know whether procedure sticks to you. Some versions include an audio section; the variant without it is sometimes called RAAT. The technique is identical.

Study: About three minutes with the passage
Questions: Around eighteen, passage removed
Clock: Commonly seven minutes, ending hard
Scoring: Correct answers; guessing is usually not punished

Read for structure, not for words

People read the passage like a page of a novel, front to back, at a comfortable pace, and get about two thirds of the way through. Then the questions sample the whole thing evenly and the last third is a blank.