This CRC cheat sheet distills the CRCC's Certified Rehabilitation Counselor exam into a printable rundown of the facts examiners test most across all 12 knowledge domains. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free CRC toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
CRC exam at a glance
- Questions: 175 multiple-choice (150 scored + 25 unscored field-test)
- Time: 210 minutes (3.5 hours); plan about 4 hours on site
- Scoring: Conjunctive — a Counseling part and a Rehabilitation/Disability part; you must pass both in one sitting (CRCC publishes no numeric cut score)
- Cost: $410 application + exam fee ($100 refunded if deemed ineligible); $200 re-exam fee
- Administered by: CRCC, computer-based at a Pearson VUE test center
What’s on the CRC cheat sheet
- Counseling Theories & EBP (11.3%) — person-centered core conditions, CBT and REBT, motivational interviewing, and the stages of change — the single heaviest domain.
- Professional Orientation & Ethics (10.7%) — the six 2017 CRCC principles, confidentiality limits, dual relationships, and the laws that shape the field.
- Assessment & Occupational Analysis (10.7%) — reliability vs. validity, residual functional capacity, O*NET, and transferable skills analysis.
- Case Management (10.0%) — the rehabilitation process, the Individualized Plan for Employment, and service coordination through closure.
- Medical, Career, Crisis & Systems (rest of the 12) — disability management and return-to-work, career theories, crisis and trauma response, community resources, and business engagement.
How to use it in your final week
- Memorize the six 2017 CRCC ethical principles cold — autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, veracity — plus the three limits on confidentiality; ethics is answerable once you know the rule.
- Split your remaining time by the two scoring parts, not by favorite topic: give equal reps to the Counseling side (theories, ethics, groups) and the Rehabilitation/Disability side (medical, disability management, placement).
- Drill the theory-to-founder pairings the morning of the test — Rogers's core conditions, Ellis's ABC, Holland's RIASEC, and the Theory of Work Adjustment (satisfaction plus satisfactoriness).
- Pair each review pass with a short timed practice set (roughly 72 seconds per question) so your pacing for 175 items in 210 minutes stays automatic.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your CRC practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
CRC cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the CRC cheat sheet downloads as a PDF with no sign-up and no paywall. It sits alongside Career Employer's free CRC toolkit: the practice test, the study guide, and the flashcards, so your whole prep stack costs nothing.
It condenses the highest-yield Certified Rehabilitation Counselor facts into a fast reference: the six 2017 CRCC ethical principles, the major counseling and career theories, the rehabilitation process and IPE, assessment concepts like reliability and validity, and disability-management terms — organized around the 12 CRCC knowledge domains from the 2021 Job Task Analysis.
Yes. The sheet flags that the CRC is scored conjunctively: it splits into a Counseling part and a Rehabilitation/Disability part, and you must clear both in the same sitting. That reminder keeps you from over-studying one side and getting blindsided by the other.
No — with 175 questions spanning 12 domains in 210 minutes, the CRC rewards breadth, and a one-page reference cannot replace working questions. Use the sheet to lock in names, sequences, and principles, then prove your recall on the practice test.
It is built from the CRCC's current CRC Exam Overview, the 2021 Job Task Analysis blueprint, and the 2017 CRCC Code of Professional Ethics. Fees and policies can change, so confirm the latest figures on the CRCC website before you apply.
References
- 1.Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. “CRC Exam Overview — questions, time, and scoring.” crccertification.com, 2026. ↑
- 2.Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. “CRC Knowledge Domains (2021 Job Task Analysis blueprint).” crccertification.com. ↑
- 3.Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. “CRC Certification General FAQ — fees and policies.” crccertification.com. ↑
- 4.Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. “CRCC Code of Professional Ethics (effective January 1, 2017).” crccertification.com. ↑
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