So you decided to save a three or four hundred bucks and pass up the local home inspector? Odd how some home buyers feels it's a must to save pennies on the dollar when in reality their spending thousands sometimes hundreds of thousands on a product that hopefully will last for many years to come. Next time you have a buyer or know someone who feels a home inspection isn't worth their hard earned money direct them to the test below. And wish them luck! Most likely they'll need it. Read why...
I heard that InterNACHI's Online Inspector Examination is too easy. Is this true?
No. The exam is difficult for some and easy for others. Only about 1/2 the people who take the exam for the first time pass. The average grade is failing. You need a score of 80 to pass.
Introduction: Click Here To Complete Exam
Welcome to InterNACHI's Online Inspector Examination. This is a completely free exam that is one of many InterNACHI entrance requirements. It's free and open to everyone, and you can take it as many times as you like.
Please note that this exam is also an entrace requirement for the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors, Inc. and CalNACHI.
This exam consists of 120 questions that are randomly generated from a much larger (and constantly evolving/expanding) pool of questions. This means that each time you take the exam it will be completely unique (there are over 1,000,000,000 versions of the exam). You will have 60 minutes to complete all 120 questions. The passing cut-off score is 80.
The scoring system is very advanced. Each item is validated to determine the relative importance on assessing the exam takers knowledge and skill, as is each answer to each question. Then each is weighted accordingly. Not only are the questions weighted, the answers are as well in the sense that an exam taker is punished severely (in terms of score) for incorrectly answering questions that indicate that he/she could cause physical harm to the public, but not greatly rewarded (in terms of score) for correctly answering such questions. Likewise, difficult questions (questions that lie outside or nearly outside the scope of a home inspection) are weighted such that the exam taker is not severely punished for answering incorrectly. This same scoring is used for questions that test minimum competency. Exam takers are are not rewarded for answering easy questions (questions every practicing inspector should be able to answer) but are severely punished for answering such questions incorrectly.
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