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Texas Physical Therapy Jurisprudence Study Guide: Practice Questions

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Questions
75
To pass
60 of 75 right (80%)
Time limit
140 minutes
Fee
No fee for a first Texas license; $48 to renew or restore, plus a 1.6% processing fee
Retakes
Attempts are unlimited; a renewal attempt is paid for each time
Format
Online and on demand, registered with an FSBPT ID. Once begun it cannot be paused.
Open resources
The Practice Act, the rules and the ethics documents are available inside the module.
Renewal credit
Counts as 2 continuing competence units and is required at each renewal.
Score report
Pass or fail at once, with the number and percent right in each content area.

Checked October 13, 2026 against the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners' TX JAM page and FSBPT's Texas JAM page. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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Definitions 3

  • How do the Board's rules define "on-site supervision"? Answer: The therapist or assistant is on the premises and readily available. Source: 22 TAC 321.1(14)
  • Section 453.001 defines physical therapy as a form of health care that deals with what? Answer: Movement dysfunction or pain of anatomic or physiologic origin. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.001(6)
  • Under Section 453.001, what supervision does a physical therapy aide work under? Answer: On-site supervision by a PT or a PTA. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.001(7)

The Board and its duties 3

  • How is the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners made up? Answer: Nine members: six physical therapists and three public members. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.051(a)
  • How long is a term on the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners? Answer: Six years, staggered. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.055(a)
  • Who names the presiding officer of the Texas board? Answer: The governor. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.058(a)
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Licensure, renewal and continuing competence 15

  • A PT restores a license by supervised clinical practice. What does Rule 341.6 require? Answer: 480 hours over a continuous 12 months, plus 30 CCUs. Source: 22 TAC 341.6(d)(1)(G)
  • A Texas license has been expired for one year or more. How does Rule 341.1 say it is put back? Answer: By restoration under Rule 341.6. Source: 22 TAC 341.1(f)
  • A therapist licensed nowhere else has let a Texas license stay expired for five years or more. What does Rule 341.6 allow? Answer: A new license after passing the national exam again. Source: 22 TAC 341.6(d)(2)
  • An endorsement applicant's documents are delayed for reasons outside the applicant's control. How long is a provisional license valid? Answer: 180 days, or until a permanent license is issued or denied. Source: 22 TAC 329.6(d)
  • Besides CCUs, the fee and the jurisprudence exam, Rule 341.1 lists which course among the items for renewal? Answer: A human trafficking prevention course. Source: 22 TAC 341.1(c)(4)
  • Continuing competence activities count toward renewal only if they were completed when? Answer: Within the 24 months before the license expiration date. Source: 22 TAC 341.2(d)
  • How long is an exam candidate's temporary license good for? Answer: Until the permanent license, or the end of the third month after the month of issue. Source: 22 TAC 329.3(a)(3)
  • How long may a license stay on inactive status? Answer: No more than six consecutive years. Source: 22 TAC 341.8(a)
  • How long must a licensee keep the original completion documents for continuing competence activities? Answer: Four years after the license expiration date. Source: 22 TAC 341.2(e)
  • How many continuing competence units does a renewal of retired status take? Answer: Six, for PTs and PTAs alike. Source: 22 TAC 341.9(e)(2)
  • How many continuing competence units does each biennial renewal take? Answer: 30 for a PT and 20 for a PTA. Source: 22 TAC 341.2(c)
  • How many times may an applicant take the national exam at one level under Rule 329.2? Answer: Six. Source: 22 TAC 329.2(b)
  • What does retired status mean under Rule 341.9? Answer: Physical therapy only as voluntary charity care. Source: 22 TAC 341.9(a)
  • What supervision does a person with a temporary license need when providing services? Answer: On-site supervision by a PT with a permanent license. Source: 22 TAC 329.3(c)
  • When does a Texas physical therapy license come up for renewal? Answer: Every two years, by the end of the birth month. Source: 22 TAC 341.1(a)

Ethical principles in the Board's guide 5

  • The Board's guide defines beneficence as an obligation to do what? Answer: Do good in every action. Source: Fundamental Ethical Principles, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
  • In the Board's Fundamental Ethical Principles, which principle is also called the principle of human dignity? Answer: Autonomy. Source: Fundamental Ethical Principles, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
  • Keeping promises to patients falls under which principle in the Board's guide? Answer: Fidelity. Source: Fundamental Ethical Principles, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
  • Treating all patients equally, fairly and impartially is the corollary of which principle in the Board's guide? Answer: Justice. Source: Fundamental Ethical Principles, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
  • Which principle in the Board's guide is "an obligation not to harm others"? Answer: Nonmaleficence. Source: Fundamental Ethical Principles, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners

Patient care: practice, supervision, records, referral 27

  • A physical therapist uses the title "doctor" on a sign or letterhead. What does Rule 335.1 require? Answer: Naming the degree, or the authority, that the title rests on. Source: 22 TAC 335.1(c)
  • A PTA screens patients a PT has designated. Who decides whether a screened patient needs further intervention? Answer: Only a PT. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(b)(2)
  • A referral comes in by telephone. What does Rule 322.1 require? Answer: It is received, recorded and signed by the PT, PTA or authorized staff. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(a)(3)
  • A therapist licensed elsewhere joins a clinic required for a post-professional degree. What does the exemption in Section 453.004 allow? Answer: 90 days in a 12-month period, supervised by a Texas PT, with notice to the board. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.004(b)(4)
  • A therapist licensed in another state travels with a visiting athletic team. How long may that person practice in Texas without a Texas license? Answer: Not more than 60 days in a 12-month period. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.004(b)(5)
  • Before treating without a referral, what must the PT get from the patient? Answer: A signed disclosure on the board's form. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.301(c)
  • For how long may a qualified PT treat a patient without a referral? Answer: Not more than 30 consecutive calendar days. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.301(a-1)
  • For treatment by a PTA or aide to continue, the PT must reevaluate the patient at least how often? Answer: Once every 60 days after treatment starts. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(d)(1)
  • How many PTAs and aides may one PT supervise under Rule 322.3? Answer: As many as that PT determines is safe. Source: 22 TAC 322.3(a)
  • How often must the supervising PT hold documented conferences with the PTA about a patient? Answer: As often as the PT determines is needed. Source: 22 TAC 322.3(b)(4)
  • May a patient give consent to telehealth verbally under Rule 322.5? Answer: Yes, if it is documented in the record with the date it was given. Source: 22 TAC 322.5(e)(2)
  • Rule 322.2(c) says a physical therapy aide may not do which of these? Answer: Initiate treatment, including exercise instruction. Source: 22 TAC 322.2(c)(3)
  • Section 453.303 bars which of these in the practice of physical therapy? Answer: Electricity for a surgical purpose, including cauterization. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.303
  • Under Section 453.201(c), which of these counts as practicing physical therapy? Answer: Publicly professing to be a physical therapist. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.201(c)
  • What does Rule 322.5 say about telehealth and physical therapy aides? Answer: Telehealth is not a means of supervising aides. Source: 22 TAC 322.5(h)
  • What does Section 453.006 say about a license issued under the Act? Answer: It gives no right to diagnose diseases or practice medicine. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.006
  • What liability insurance must a PT carry to treat without a referral? Answer: $100,000 per claim and $300,000 aggregate per year. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(a)(2)(D)
  • What may a physical therapy aide enter in the permanent record? Answer: Quantitative data for delegated tasks. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(e)(3)
  • What must a PTA include in the documentation of each treatment session? Answer: The name of the supervising PT. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(e)(2)
  • What standard of care applies to physical therapy given by telehealth? Answer: The same standard as for the same service in person. Source: 22 TAC 322.5(d)
  • What supervision does a physical therapy aide need while working with a patient? Answer: Onsite supervision by a PT or PTA who stays within reasonable proximity. Source: 22 TAC 322.3(c)(2)
  • When may a PTA or an aide begin treating a new patient? Answer: After the PT has established the plan of care. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(c)(2)
  • Where do the letters for a degree or certification go under Rule 335.1? Answer: After the initials PT or PTA. Source: 22 TAC 335.1(b)
  • Where must the supervising PT be while a PTA provides services? Answer: On call and readily available. Source: 22 TAC 322.3(b)(2)
  • Which of these is on Rule 322.1's list of qualifying referral sources? Answer: A physician assistant. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(a)(1)
  • Which of these may a PTA do under Rule 322.2? Answer: Modify treatment techniques as indicated in the plan of care. Source: 22 TAC 322.2(b)
  • Who provides the final documentation when a patient is discharged? Answer: The PT; the PTA may supply patient information. Source: 22 TAC 322.1(e)(4)

Discipline and unlawful practice 23

  • A court finds that a person violated the Act. What civil penalty does Section 453.453 set? Answer: $200 for each day the violation continues. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.453(a)
  • A licensee moves to a new home address. What does Rule 329.1 require? Answer: Written notice to the board within 30 days of the change. Source: 22 TAC 329.1(g)(1)
  • A licensee on probation under Rule 343.5 fails to keep the conditions of a recovery program. What follows? Answer: Immediate revocation of the license. Source: 22 TAC 343.5(d)
  • A licensee sees another licensee do something that reasonably appears to violate the Act. How does Rule 322.4 treat saying nothing? Answer: As detrimental practice; licensees must notify the board. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(15)
  • A licensee settles a malpractice claim. What does Rule 341.21 require? Answer: A copy sent to the board within 30 days. Source: 22 TAC 341.21
  • A person knowingly violates the Practice Act. What kind of offense is that under Section 453.455? Answer: A Class A misdemeanor. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.455
  • A therapist stops seeing a patient who is under current care. What keeps that from being abandonment under Rule 322.4? Answer: Making reasonable arrangements for the care to continue. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(16)
  • After an emergency suspension, by what day must the board hold a second hearing, or the license is automatically reinstated? Answer: The 60th day after the suspension was ordered. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.354(c)
  • An applicant whose license is denied is entitled to a hearing before whom? Answer: The State Office of Administrative Hearings. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.352(a)
  • For discipline under Section 453.351, a felony conviction includes which of these? Answer: A plea of nolo contendere. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.351(a)(3)
  • How do the Board's rules define a reprimand? Answer: A public and formal censure against a license. Source: 22 TAC 343.1(17)
  • How often must the board tell the parties the status of an open complaint? Answer: At least quarterly, until final disposition. Source: 22 TAC 343.36(b)
  • Must a patient be injured for substandard practice to count as detrimental practice under Rule 322.4? Answer: No, actual injury is not required. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(11)
  • Not answering agency correspondence sent to the official address becomes a failure to cooperate after how long? Answer: 90 days. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(6)
  • Rule 322.4 treats which payment as detrimental practice? Answer: Pay for referring patients, unless federal law allows it. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(12)
  • Rule 343.7 gives which example of gross negligence? Answer: Care the therapist should have known would cause severe injury. Source: 22 TAC 343.7(b)
  • Section 453.201 keeps which letters for people licensed under the Act? Answer: PT, PhT, LPT, RPT, DPT, MPT and PTA. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.201(d)
  • What is the most the board may charge as an administrative penalty? Answer: $200 for each violation, with each day counted separately. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.402(a)
  • What vote does the board need to suspend a license temporarily on an emergency basis? Answer: At least two-thirds. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.354(a)
  • Which contact details of a licensee are confidential under Section 453.151? Answer: Home address and personal telephone number. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.151(c)
  • Which ground for discipline in Section 453.351 applies to a physical therapist assistant? Answer: Treating a person other than under a PT's direction. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.351(a)(10)
  • Which of these does Rule 343.6 list as a ground to deny a license? Answer: Cheating on the national examination. Source: 22 TAC 343.6(a)
  • Who may bring a proceeding to stop a person from practicing physical therapy unlawfully under Section 453.451? Answer: The attorney general, a district or county attorney, or any other person. Source: Tex. Occ. Code 453.451

Consumer protection 4

  • For home visits or telehealth, how does a licensee meet the display-of-license rule? Answer: By giving information on the board's online verification. Source: 22 TAC 337.1(b)
  • May a licensee hang a photocopy of the license on the wall? Answer: No, a displayed reproduction is unauthorized. Source: 22 TAC 337.1
  • Under Rule 322.4, advertising becomes detrimental practice when it is what? Answer: False, misleading or deceptive. Source: 22 TAC 322.4(b)(13)
  • What must the consumer information sign in a licensee's place of business tell the public? Answer: That complaints against licensees can go to the board. Source: 22 TAC 337.2(a)

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, spread over the categories of the Texas JAM Content Outline that the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners adopted on July 27, 2018 (https://www.fsbpt.org/Portals/0/documents/services/TexasJAMBlueprintAdoptedByBoardOn20180727.pdf). The Physical Therapy Practice Act (Occupations Code, Chapter 453) was read on 2026-10-13 on the Texas Legislature's site, statutes.capitol.texas.gov, and in the Board's own copy (2025). The Board's rules (Texas Administrative Code, title 22, part 16, chapters 321 to 346) were read the same day in the Board's May 2026 edition, linked from https://ptot.texas.gov/act-and-rules/. Five questions use the Board's own Fundamental Ethical Principles document. The exam's numbers are from the Board's TX JAM page, https://ptot.texas.gov/pt-jam/. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the text of the statute, rule or Board document it cites, which are public documents of the State of Texas. Nothing is taken from the TX JAM, an earlier jurisprudence exam, a study guide or another practice test.

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Unofficial Texas physical therapy jurisprudence practice, not affiliated with the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners or the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. Every question is our own, written from the Practice Act and the Board's rules.

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What this study guide follows

The bank follows the Texas JAM Content Outline the Board adopted on July 27, 2018: definitions, the Board, licensure, patient care management, discipline and consumer advocacy. The law is Occupations Code Chapter 453 and the Board's rules in their May 2026 edition.

Texas physical therapy jurisprudence exam study guide: the ethics third

A third of the real module, 25 of 75 items, is ethics. Five questions here come from the Board's own Fundamental Ethical Principles. The professional association's code and conduct guides are private documents and are not quoted, so read those inside the module.

  • Patient care management is the largest law section of the outline, 18 of 75 items; discipline follows with 15.
  • Many Texas answers are a number: 30 days without a referral, 60 days between reevaluations, 30 and 20 CCUs.

Questions and answers

Is the Texas physical therapy jurisprudence exam open book?

Yes. Rule 321.1 defines the jurisprudence exam as an open-book examination, and the Board says the Practice Act, the rules and the ethics documents are available before and inside the TX JAM.

How many questions are on the Texas jurisprudence exam for physical therapy?

The Board's TX JAM page gives 75 multiple-choice items and a limit of 2 hours 20 minutes. Passing takes 60 of 75 right, which is 80 percent, and attempts are not limited.

Is there a Texas jurisprudence exam study guide for PTAs?

PTAs take the same TX JAM as PTs, for a first license and at every renewal. The questions here on what a PTA may and may not do come from Rules 322.1 to 322.3.

Is this the real TX JAM?

No. It is unofficial practice written from Texas statutes and rules. The Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners and the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy did not write or review this page, and none of the module's items appear here.

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