Free NHIE drills · built on the EBPHI outline
NHIE practice that starts where the exam starts
The National Home Inspector Examination is 200 questions in four hours, and 175 of them count. Most people walk in having studied houses and walk out beaten by the third of the paper that is about reporting and paperwork. This site drills the whole thing, in the proportions the exam actually uses.
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Weights are EBPHI’s published content outline, effective 1 April 2024 (EBPHI exam overview packet, cross-checked against Pearson VUE publication 101001).
The shape of the paper
Three domains, nineteen tasks
Everything on the exam hangs off this. Domain 1 is the house. Domains 2 and 3 are what you do about what you found, and how you wrote it down.
Electrical is the single biggest task at 7%. Nothing else in Domain 1 goes above 6%, so there is no one topic that carries the exam — but there is a third of it sitting in two domains people skim.
Free NHIE practice test
60 real questions with the reasoning after every answer, weighted the way the exam is. Mock mode puts a clock on it.
Read →The paperworkHow to get licensed
Certification, licence and pre-licensing hours are three different things. Here is which one your state actually asks for.
Read →The formatWhat the exam looks like
200 questions, 175 scored, four hours, scaled 200–800, pass at 500. No calculators.
Read →Where people lose marks
The exam is not a trivia quiz about houses
Read enough real questions and a pattern shows up. The technical ones are fair. The ones that catch people are about what an inspector is allowed to say — and those are worth 30% between them.
Drill it in the right proportions
Sixty questions, filtered by domain if you want to work a weak section, or run straight through on the clock. Every answer comes with the reasoning, so a wrong one is worth more than a right one.
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