What is the Easiest Way to Get Your North Carolina Builders License

North Carolina Builder Exam vs. NASCLA Exam

If you’re thinking about taking the North Carolina Builder exam, there may be a better option for you. There’s another exam you can take called the NASCLA exam. NASCLA stands for the National Association of State Contractor Licensing Agencies. That’s a group that is working to standardize the contractor exam across the United States.

Currently this exam is accepted in the follow 10 states; North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, West Virginia, Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The NASCLA exam is an easier exam in my opinion for the following reasons.

1. The NC Builder exam requires that you register with the state first and get approval before taking the exam. The NASCLA exam does not have any board approval required. You can contact the testing company (PSI Exams) and schedule the NASCLA exam any time.

2. Since the board requires pre-authorization for the North Carolina Builder exam, they are tracking your results, and they only give you 120 days to pass the exam. If you failed the exam the first time, you must wait at least 30 days to retake the exam. If you fail the exam a second time, you must wait a year to try again. With the NASCLA exam, your results are not being tracked, and there is no limit as to the number of times you can take the exam.

3. The North Carolina Builder exam covers information found in 17 different construction books. Unfortunately you can only bring 7 of those books into the exam with you. That means you essentially have to have the other 10 books memorized. With the NASCLA exam, you will be tested on information in 20 books, and you get to bring all 20 of those books into the exam with you for reference. It’s an OPEN BOOK test. 

4. The North Carolina Builder exam has a 3 hour time limit which works out to 2 minutes per question. The NASCLA exam has a 5 hour time limit which works out to over 2.6 minutes per question. AND in most cases there is a neat little trick you can use to stop the clock giving you even more time.

5. When it comes to reciprocity, if you have a NorthCarolina license you can obtain a similar license in Tennessee, South Carolina and Louisiana. There are some requirements in each state however about how long you have had the license before they will grant you a license for their state. With the NASCLA exam however, that is the trades exam for North Carolina, SouthCarolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, WestVirginia, Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands. So there is no waiting period in those states. Simply send in your transcripts showing your test score along with your application in each of those states.

Each of those states listed above have a link to the specific prep course to help you pass your contractor's exam. An online home study course is essential for these exams.

It’s these reasons that I always recommend taking the NASCLA test instead of the North Carolina Builders exam when you’re trying to get your general contractor’s license in NC.

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How to Get Your Georgia Residential Basic Contractors License

How to Get Your Georgia Residential Basic Contractors License

The GA Residential Light Commercial Contractor License is granted by the Georgia Professional Licensing Board.

The basic steps for obtaining a Georgia General Contractors license are:

1. Fill out an application and submit an application fee to the board for approval
2. Pass a trades exam
3. Pass a business law exam

The applications can be downloaded directly from the Georgia Professional Licensing Board's website. Click Here

The tests you'll be required to pass are administered by PSI exams. The details of each test are in the Candidate Information Bulletin PDF which you can find by Clicking Here.

The best and easiest way to pass the Georgia Residential Contractors License exam is to use a prep course. For example the GA Residential Light Commercial Contractor license exam will have 80 questions that span 9 different books over 8 different subjects.

Those 9 books contain 1,000's of pages of information. If you can read these text books and technical code books as fast as 50 pages per hour, it will take weeks just to read all the words. You don't really want to spend your hard earned free time with your nose in a book do you?
(Want to see how fast you can read, take the reading speed test here)

A good prep course like the ones you'll find at My Contractors License will not only reduce your study time down to about 20-30 hours, but it will teach you what you need to concentrate on, what you can skip, and special techniques for taking the exam and passing the test on your first attempt.

The GA Residential Basic license is for work relative to detached one-family and two-family residences and one-family townhouses not over three stories in height. You can find this and information about other frequently asked questions at the GA Secretary of State website here.

How to Get Your Georgia Residential Light Commercial Contractor License

How to Get Your Georgia Residential Light Commercial Contractor License

The GA Residential Light Commercial Contractor License is granted by the Georgia Professional Licensing Board.

The basic steps for obtaining a Georgia General Contractors license are:

1. Fill out an application and submit an application fee to the board for approval
2. Pass a trades exam
3. Pass a business law exam

The applications can be downloaded directly from the Georgia Professional Licensing Board's website. Click Here

The tests you'll be required to pass are administered by PSI exams. The details of each test are in the Candidate Information Bulletin PDF which you can find by Clicking Here.

The best and easiest way to pass the Georgia Residential Light Commercial Contractors License exam is to use a prep course. For example the GA Residential Light Commercial Contractor license exam will have 90 questions that span 13 different books over 9 different subjects.

Those 13 books contain 1,000's of pages of information. If you can read these text books and technical code books as fast as 50 pages per hour, it will take weeks just to read the words.
(Want to see how fast you can read, take the reading speed test here)

A good prep course like the ones you'll find at My Contractors License will not only reduce your study time down to about 30 hours, but it will teach you what you need to concentrate on, what you can skip, and special techniques for taking the exam and passing the test on your first attempt.

The GA Residential Light Commercial license is for work relative to detached one-family and two-family residences and one-family townhouses not over three stories in height, and contractor work or activity related to multifamily and multi-use light commercial buildings and structures.

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How to Get Your Georgia General Contractors License

How to Get Your Georgia General Contractor License

The GA General Commercial Contractor (NASCLA) License is granted by the Georgia Professional Licensing Board.

The basic steps for obtaining a Georgia General Contractors license are:

1. Pass a trades exam
2. Fill out an application and submit an application fee to the board for approval
3. Pass a business law exam

The applications can be downloaded directly from the Georgia Professional Licensing Board's website. Click Here

The tests you'll be required to pass are administered by PSI exams. The details of each test are in the Candidate Information Bulletin PDF which you can find by Clicking Here.

The best and easiest way to pass the Georgia Contractors License exam is to use a prep course. For example the GA General Contractor NASCLA license exam will have 115 questions that span 20 different books over 12 different subjects.

Those 20 books contain about 10,000 pages of information. If you can read these text books and technical code books as fast as 50 pages per hour, it will take about 200 hours just to read the words.
(Want to see how fast you can read, take the reading speed test here)

A good prep course like the ones you'll find at My Contractors License will not only reduce your study time down to about 30 hours, but it will teach you what you need to concentrate on, what you can skip, and special techniques for taking the exam and passing the test on your first attempt.

Georgia adopted the NASCLA exam as their primary exam in 2010. NASCLA is the National Association for State Contractor Licensing Agencies. This exam is often referred to as the national contractors exam. Currently it is accepted in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada, West Virginia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

You will still be required to take a separate state business law exam for contractors in each of those states except for North Carolina.

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