Originally Posted By: Russell Frame This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
In Wisconsin we are required to take the NHIE exam and a State exam.
"Examination: Pass an examination to determine fitness as a home inspector. Currently, applicants are required to take the National Home Inspector Examination and an exam on the Wisconsin Statutes and the Wisconsin Administrative rules that relate to home inspections. The National Home Inspector Examination is administered by the Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors (EBPHI)."
My question is, just how detailed is the State exam?
Is it pretty common sense or do I need to be memorizing the letter of the law?
Originally Posted By: ekartal This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Russell,
The condensed version of Code Check helped me quite a bit for the Illinois exam. Time to log off now, I initially thought the topic was the Wisconsin State Fair.
Originally Posted By: kmcmahon This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Sorry, I didn’t see this post until today.
Nick is totally wrong on his comments…the NHIE exam is very hard and is a compilation of numerous questions at a random, so no two tests have the same questions on them. The illustrations are a bit of a joke though, so he’s right about that. The questions are made in a best answer format, so although all the multiple choice answers may be partially correct, only one is more correct than the rest. The answers cannot be bought on ebay. Those aren’t the answers to this test. This test is the second requirement to licensing in Wisconsin. The first requirement is the statutes exam…
Now the state statutes exam is fairly easy. I think I got one wrong on the whole test. The questions are right out of the state statute & Regulations book, and they basically tell you which statutes will have questions on them. get the booklet from the state (free) study the statutes, highlight the statutes until they are memorized...a few times thru should suffice. The statute exam is made to be easy for a reason...they want you to memorize the statutes. ( I could probably recite each one) The statutes are all about inspection ethics, duties and responsibilites as an inspector. It's actually informative reading. It is not technical in nature.
Not sure where Nick got his information from, but it's wrong.