Practice tips

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• Timing 125 questions in 330 minutesYou have about 158 seconds a question. Take a first pass on everything answerable without a book, then work the lookups with a known amount of time re…
• Lookup questions against recall questionsA lookup question asks for a specific figure or provision. A recall question asks whether you understand a principle. Recognizing which is which in fi…
• How NASCLA questions are writtenQuestions come in three shapes: a lookup for a specific figure, an application of a rule to a scenario, and a calculation. Recognizing the shape in fi…
• How to Eliminate Wrong Answers on the NASCLA ExamEstablish which activity the question describes before looking at the options. Most distractors are correct figures from a different activity - the ge…
• NASCLA Practice TestUse NASCLA practice tests to rehearse the open-book task: understand the question, identify the right approved reference, locate the rule, and answer …
• Practice questions: procurement and contractingProcurement and Contracting is 31 of 115 scored questions. These four cover the order of precedence, bond types, retainage and the markup-margin disti…
• Practice questions: general requirementsGeneral Requirements is 25 of 115 scored questions and is largely OSHA. These four cover fall protection triggers, scaffold capacity, reporting deadli…
• Practice questions: site constructionSite Construction is 15 of 115 scored questions. These four cover the protective system trigger, soil classification, spoil pile setback and an earthw…
• A full mock, walked throughSit it in one 330-minute block with the actual tabbed books, using the two-pass strategy. Review the next day by category, classifying each wrong answ…
• Why your practice score is misleadingPractice scores mislead when the books were untabbed or absent, when there was no clock, when questions were repeated, or when the set was weighted ev…