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National Home Inspector Examination (NHIE) Exam Prep
The NHIE is the one national exam about 35 states use to license home inspectors — including Oklahoma (through the CIB) and Arkansas. Study every system by topic with every answer explained, then run a full practice test assembled exactly like the real exam: 200 questions, 4 hours, weighted to EBPHI's published content outline.
The Home Inspector set
$49.99 for 3 months — the Home Inspector set: it unlocks all 200 NHIE questions and the full 200-question practice test on this page. The other sets — Contractor & Roofing, Electrical, Plumbing, EPA 608 — are sold separately at $49.99 each, under the same account.
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The NHIE track
NHIE — National Home Inspector Examination
The exam: National Home Inspector Examination (NHIE), by the Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors (EBPHI) — tested by PSI in most states and Pearson VUE in FL, NV and TX. Closed book, proctored, 200 multiple-choice questions in 4 hours.
One exam, one bank, every state that licenses on it. EBPHI weights the exam in three domains — Property & Building Inspection / Site Review 70%, Analysis of Findings & Reporting 20%, and Professional Responsibilities 10% — and this bank is built to those exact weights, topic for topic.
Oklahoma: the Construction Industries Board's Home Inspector Division licenses on the NHIE through PSI. Arkansas: inspectors register with the state on the NHIE plus a separate ASHI Standards & Ethics exam — this bank covers the NHIE itself; the ethics exam is ASHI's own short test, not part of the NHIE.
Straight talk on price: most NHIE prep is sold bundled inside licensing courses at $495 and up. This is pure practice — the questions, the explanations, and a full exam-length rehearsal — inside the same $49.99 pass that covers every other track on this site.
Draws on the full 200-question NHIE bank — the whole Roof Systems topic is free below, no pass needed.
How the real exam is scored — straight talk
The real NHIE is scale scored from 200 to 800, and 500 is the pass point. EBPHI does not publish a raw percentage that equals 500 — questions vary in difficulty, and the scale converts your performance, so there is no honest way to say "you need exactly X%." Anyone who quotes you one is guessing.
Our practice grading: our tests grade on percent correct, and we set the practice pass line at 70% as a readiness benchmark — the same line most licensing exams on this site use. Treat 70% as the floor, not the goal: if you are consistently scoring in the mid-70s and up across every topic here, you are in the zone the real exam rewards. Your results screen breaks your score down by topic — a weak topic is where your study time goes next, because the real exam's heaviest domain (the inspection itself) is 70% of the test.
The fine print that matters: 25 of the 200 questions are unscored "pretest" questions being tried out for future exams — you cannot tell which ones, and they do not count. Four hours for 200 questions is about 72 seconds a question; our practice timer runs the same clock. If you fail, PSI makes you wait 30 days between retakes — which is exactly why rehearsing at full length first is worth it.
These are original practice questions written from EBPHI's published NHIE content outline and the references it names (the NHIE Home Inspection Manual, the 2021 IRC, NFPA 101, and the 2023 NEC). They are not the real exam questions — those are never published.
Exam facts on this page come from EBPHI's National Home Inspector Examination Candidate Handbook and content outline (nationalhomeinspectorexam.org; PSI bulletin 877, updated December 2024). Confirm current requirements with your state regulator before you test.