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47 articles across 25 exams. What changed this year, what the requirements are, what a pass rate actually counts, and which paid courses earn their price. Every figure links back to the body that publishes it.

What changed this year

Outline revisions, vendor moves and retirements, each dated from the body that announced it. If your exam is here, read this before the study guide: the guide was rewritten to the new outline, and the article says what moved.

Original research

Our own data work: official documents read line by line, the arithmetic they imply, and dated checks of what other guides say.

Most read

The articles search engines sent the most readers to between 2026-08-15 and 2026-09-18. Measured, not chosen — the list changes when the numbers do.

Browse by exam

Pick the test you are sitting. Every article is written about one exam and tagged with it, so the list you get is the list that applies to you — and it is the full list, not the selection on this page.

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Latest

Most recently written or revised. The revision date is the date to trust: an article is re-read whenever its exam changes.

What the articles are for, and which one to read when

The articles on this site answer the questions a candidate has before and around an exam rather than during study: how many people pass it, whether the credential is worth its fees, how it compares to the neighbouring credential, which paid course is worth paying for, and what the testing company requires at the door. Every figure links to the body that publishes it, every article carries the date it was written and the date it was last revised, and where an authority publishes no figure the article says so instead of inventing one.

The kinds of article here

Pass-rate articles trace the published rate to its source and explain what the figure counts — first attempts, all attempts, one testing window — because two rates for one exam usually differ on that alone. Exam guides walk through the process from eligibility to result. The worth-it articles set the credential's full cost, in fees and prerequisite hours, against what it opens, and the comparison articles put two adjacent credentials side by side for someone choosing between them.

The course reviews look at what each paid programme includes at its list price, not its sale price, and they sit deliberately behind the free material: a practice test here is free, so the review's question is what a course adds beyond that. The test-day guides quote each delivery company's own policy on identification, personal items and arrival, and the reports are the founder's own data work — censuses of requirements and pass rates across states and exams.

How the articles relate to the exam pages

An article never repeats what the exam's own four pages hold. The practice test, the study guide, the exam guide and the cheat sheet carry the outline, the questions, the verified facts and the compressed figures; an article carries the argument or the comparison those pages are not the place for. When an article cites a fee or a pass mark it renders the same verified value the exam pages do, so the two never disagree.

The articles are also where changes get explained. When an exam moves to a new outline, changes vendor or drops a section, the verified facts behind the exam pages are updated and an article explains what the change means for someone mid-preparation. Anything written before such a change is revised or marked, and the revision date on the page is the date to trust.

How to use the articles

  1. Step 1

    Start with the pass-rate article for your exam to size the task, and read what the rate counts before comparing it with any other figure you have seen.

  2. Step 2

    Read the worth-it piece before paying a registration fee, and the comparison piece if two credentials would each serve the same goal.

  3. Step 3

    Take the free practice test before reading any course review, so the review's question — what the course adds — is one you can answer for yourself.

  4. Step 4

    In the final week, read the test-day guide for your delivery company alongside the cheat sheet's checklist, and compare both against your appointment confirmation.

  5. Step 5

    Come back to the articles whenever an exam updates its outline; the piece on the change says what moved, and the study guide and flashcards are rewritten to the new outline.

Test day

What the exam-delivery companies actually require at the door, quoted from their own policy documents — because the rule is set per exam programme, and the generic advice is wrong about as often as it is right.

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