Test Prep recommendations for initial licensing (PA)

[jpa]

Hello all! I am located in PA, and will soon be taking my state exam for initial licensing. Does anyone have any test prep courses/websites that they could recommend from personal experience? Thanks!

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Are you sure you want to do this ?

OK - if you insist - might check Amazon for some old Henry Harrison books with prep questions and there are online prep classes (no credit)

Go on Amazon for old books they still apply

 

[Fernando]

Are you sure you want to do this ?

OK - if you insist - might check Amazon for some old Henry Harrison books with prep questions and there are online prep classes (no credit)
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When I first started appraising, I would read Harrison. Rather easy for me to read unlike USPAP.
I'm surprise it's still around.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Antother tip. Might help. Architectural terms. Although decades ago, I remember 2 questions that I would have not gotten right, had I not worked with Architects in an Engineering department.
Yep, they were on the residential exam
Cornice
Baluster
On the Cert gen test I recall this one.
pilaster

 

[Meandering]

Used to be that memorizing USPAP standard 2 verbatim would get you through, as they would change one word in the standard as a question, so if you did not know exactly what the wording was, you got the question wrong. But I guess now their focus is more on the FAQs.

 

[Fernando]

Used to be that memorizing USPAP standard 2 verbatim would get you through, as they would change one word in the standard as a question, so if you did not know exactly what the wording was, you got the question wrong. But I guess now their focus is more on the FAQs.

USPAP is in the test. I think I would flunk.
I was the first "grandfathered" generation who got the easier test.

 

[Mile High Trout]

Geesh, PSI offers a pretest.

It's. Almost. Like. This. Person. Does. Not. Have. A. Qualified. Licensed. Appraiser. Mentor.

Good luck. You're going to need it.

 

[jpa]

Thanks for your response. And you are correct, I do not have a supervising appraiser any longer since he passed away a couple of months ago. I appreciate your kind and helpful response.

 

[jpa]

Geesh, PSI offers a pretest.

It's. Almost. Like. This. Person. Does. Not. Have. A. Qualified. Licensed. Appraiser. Mentor.

Good luck. You're going to need it.

Thanks for your response. And you are correct, I do not have a supervising appraiser any longer since he passed away a couple of months ago. I appreciate your kind and helpful response.

 

[Mile High Trout]

Thanks for your response. And you are correct, I do not have a supervising appraiser any longer since he passed away a couple of months ago. I appreciate your kind and helpful response.

I was neither kind nor very helpful. And am not sympathetic either. If you wanted to talk about that, you should have included that topic matter from the start. An important qualifier because in today's climate a post like that is most likely to come from a PAREA graduate. If you don't understand why that's important, you should research the matter.

Consider yourself fortunate for having an out before you became too committed. The industry is dying on it's last breath.