NHIE exam preparation
Your school taught you home inspection. Nobody taught you the exam.
The NHIE is 200 questions, 4 hours, written to a published content outline and referenced to a published manual. This course is built from that outline and that manual, and nothing else.
$295 one payment · 12 months of access · pass guarantee · not a licensing course
Why a good school is not enough
They are two different problems, and only one of them is on the test.
What a pre-licensing course is for
Satisfying a state's classroom hour requirement against a curriculum a state agency approved. Teaching you to walk a roof, read a panel, and write a report a client can act on. That work is real and this course does not replace it.
What the NHIE is for
Measuring you against a published outline, with a fixed number of questions on each topic, written in a specific style, referenced to a specific manual, scored against a fixed line rather than against other candidates.
People rarely fail because they do not understand houses. They fail because they studied in the wrong proportions, never practiced at four-hour length, and had never seen how the questions are worded.
How this course is built
Three decisions, and everything follows from them.
Built from the manual the exam is referenced to
Every lesson starts by pulling every testable fact out of the source material into a ledger: every number, every defect list, every scope statement, every should and must. The lesson is written from the ledger, then audited back against it, item by item. Coverage is a checklist, not a hope.
Weighted the way the exam is weighted
Analysis and Reporting is 20 percent of your score. Professional Responsibilities is another 10. That is almost a third of the exam that has nothing to do with a furnace, and it is where self-directed study plans quietly lose. Every lesson here carries the outline task it serves, and the question bank draws in the same proportions the exam does.
- 70%
- Property and Building Inspection / Site Review~122
- 20%
- Analysis of Findings and Reporting~35
- 10%
- Professional Responsibilities~18
Drilled, not read
Re-reading a chapter is the most common thing people do on a second attempt and the least effective thing available. This course is a question bank with lessons attached: roughly a thousand items tagged to the outline, each with a written explanation of why the answer is the answer and why the other three are close but wrong.
Do not take my word for it
Twelve real questions from the bank. Right now, no email.
They are pulled unedited out of Lesson 28A, Cooling Systems, with the same rationales students see. Cooling is 4 percent of the exam. There are twelve more lessons like it in Domain 1 alone.
Start the free quizAt a condenser unit, the suction line of the refrigerant line set can be identified as the:
- A. Smaller, uninsulated line
- B. Smaller, insulated line
- C. Larger, uninsulated line
- D. Larger, insulated line
What you get
One payment, the whole exam.
The course is in production. No lesson is readable yet. 85 bank questions are written and reviewed, and the first lesson is drafted and waiting on review. Every delivery date is on the pricing page.
Lessons
Covering both manuals in full, each mapped to its outline task, each with a video, custom diagrams, and field photos.
Questions
Tagged to the outline, six question types, a written rationale on every single item, and enough depth that retakes see fresh items.
Ways to test yourself
A quiz on every lesson, a 95 percent mastery exam that activates the guarantee, and a 200-question, 4-hour simulator scored the way the real one is.
This is for you if
- You sat the NHIE, missed it, and have a retake date coming.
- You finished a pre-licensing course and do not feel ready.
- You have been inspecting for years and the written exam is the last thing standing between you and a license.
- You have studied, and you cannot tell whether you are studying the right things.
This is not for you if
- You need approved classroom hours. This awards none. Go to an approved school first.
- You have never studied home inspection at all. This is review, not a first pass.
- You want continuing education credit. This is not CE.
- You want someone to promise you a pass. The guarantee is a refund, not a prophecy.
The whole course
12 months of access. No subscription, no upsell, no coaching tier you find out about later.
The course is in production. No lesson is readable yet. 85 bank questions are written and reviewed, and the first lesson is drafted and waiting on review. Every delivery date is on the pricing page.
- All 115 lessons and every video
- The full question bank with rationales
- The 95 percent mastery exam
- The 200-question, 4-hour simulator with a scaled score and a breakdown by domain
- The refund guarantee, in writing
Twelve sample questions are free to try first.
Questions people actually ask
Is the course finished?
No, and the price says so. No lesson is readable yet. 85 bank questions are written and reviewed, and the first lesson is drafted and waiting on review. You are buying it while it is being written, which is why every piece that is not done yet carries a month on the pricing page.
Two things protect you. Your 12 months of access start the day the last lesson is finished, not the day you pay, so nothing counts down while you wait. And if a date is going to be missed, everyone who bought hears it by email before the date passes.
Is this a licensing course? Will it count toward my required hours?
No, and it is not trying to be. This course does not carry state approval, does not award education hours, and does not substitute for a pre-licensing program. If your state requires classroom hours, you still need an approved school for those.
That is a deliberate choice. Approved schools are built to satisfy an hour requirement. This is built to get you over a 500 scaled score on one specific exam.
I already finished a pre-licensing course. Why would I pay for this too?
Because they are two different jobs. Your school taught you to inspect a house, and it had to cover a curriculum a state agency approved. The NHIE tests a published content outline against a published manual, with a fixed number of questions per topic.
Most people who fail did not fail because they do not know houses. They failed because they spent their study time in the wrong proportions, never practiced at four-hour length, and had never seen the way the questions are worded.
I already failed once. Is there anything different here?
The question bank. 85 items are written and reviewed today and the bank is being built toward about a thousand, all from the same manual the exam references, tagged to the official outline. Every item carries a written explanation of why the answer is the answer and why the other three are close but wrong.
Reading a chapter again is what most people do on a second attempt, and it is the least effective thing available. Answering questions and reading the reasoning is the thing that moves a score.
Where do the questions come from?
Every lesson starts by extracting every testable fact out of the source material into a ledger. The lesson is written from the ledger, then audited against it. Questions are written from the same ledger and carry the page they were verified against.
Questions are written in original wording. They are not copied out of the manual, and they are not recalled exam questions. Nobody who sells you recalled NHIE questions is doing it legally.
Stop studying home inspection. Start studying the exam.
Twelve real questions from the bank, scored with rationales, no email required.
$295 · one payment · refund guarantee