NACHI's entrance exam now toughest in industry.

[Nick Gromicko]

Despite our exam being open book, easier back then, a cut-off score of 75 not 80 back then, having professional help sitting next to him, and cheating... that reporter (who was fired for fabricating a different story)... failed that exam (not the one we use now)... 3 times!

It is unconscionable to rely heavily on any exam to determine competence as almost anyone can pass most every exam except our current one (which 75% of the people fail). It is OK to use an exam to alert the exam taker of just how little he/she really knows and where his/her weaknesses are though.

Instead, having well rounded entrance requirements like http://www.nachi.org/membership.htm is a better system It may not be a perfect system... but it is the best system out there.

[rwills]

I'd hardly consider a maintenance man a professional home inspector, said so himself, and you could raise the passing score to 90 but still not know who took the test to become a certified home inspector.

[Nick Gromicko]

Bob, Do you mean like the 144,000 Doctorates that are earned online each year?

The exam you referenced and the one the story was about isn't what we use today, isn't the same lower passing cut-off we use today, and is a much smaller portion of our http://www.nachi.org/membership.htm membership requirements we use today. Try to stay current when you reference anything in a post.

[Nick Gromicko]

Bob, what is your response to tax-payer funded University of Phoenix (and the so many other schools) who have demonstrated over and over that your point about online courses and/or testing is silly?

[rwills]

"Bob, Do you mean like the 144,000 Doctorates that are earned online each year?"

Is that what you're comparing the test to? OK.

Actually, I am being current. I took the test and know it's the same test. Raising the score doesn't mean a damn thing when verifying the test taker is not validated.

[rwills]

"Bob, what is your response to tax-payer funded University of Phoenix (and the so many other schools) who have demonstrated over and over that your point about online courses and/or testing is silly?"

My response is that those who fall for that are as about as silly as you can get.

[Nick Gromicko]

You are wrong. It certainly does mean (as you say) "a damn thing"... it means MUCH statistically.

I can prove it in a simple sentence:

There are far more inspector-wannabies, who have no business in the business, who are kept out of this business by taking NACHI's free online exam and failing, and then realize that the inspection business requires a lot of knowledge, and so dissuaded, move on to another career choice....then there are.... inspectors who get into the business solely by cheating on an exam that is not required to enter the industry.

This is common sense and everyone knows it.

Do the math. Many major Universities have.

[rwills]

"There are far more inspector-wannabies, who have no business in the business, who are kept out of this business by taking NACHI's free online exam, failing, and then realize that the inspection business requires a lot of knowledge, so dissuaded, move on....then there are.... inspectors who get into the business solely by cheating on an exam that is not required to enter the industry."

That's debatable!
First, where would you even find statistics as such. And who's to say that those (unknowns)who fail, don't just go get someone to retake the test to bypass their wannabe status?

[rwills]

That's it? Darn, just when I was having fun. O.K. go regroup! In the famous words of Ahnold, I'll be bock!

[wforsyth]

you silly boys....