BCIN exam FAQ

$150 per attempt, registered through Humber Polytechnic, and there is no discounted resit: a failed exam is a full re-registration. There are 16 qualification exams, each $150 a sitting. Our banks sit under that fee, at $109, $129 or $149 depending on the exam, and any two or more come in at $99 each. Cancelling in writing at least 7 days ahead carries a $50 administrative fee.

70 multiple-choice questions · 3 hours · open book · 70% to pass. Permitted materials: the 2024 Building Code Compendium Vols 1 and 2, hard copy and/or PDF. That's ~2.5 minutes per question. Navigation speed is the real skill being tested.

The 2024 Building Code, for every exam sat on or after March 30, 2026. The 2024 edition carries ~1,730 amendments vs 2012, including renumbering. Pre-2026 study material can cite article numbers that no longer exist.

No. Qualifications are one-time; only the annual registration fee renews. The 2026 switch matters for new candidates.

Nearly everyone starts with General Legal/Process, then adds a technical category (House is the most common). The full mapping by practitioner type is in the exam-selection guide.

No, it's explicitly optional. Register for exams directly (you need a free BCIN number first). Colleges and OBOA sell courses at $383 to $904 per subject; self-study with focused practice is how most working candidates do it.

Yes, and without giving us anything. The 12 question quiz is free, needs no email, and draws on the same banks as the paid product, so what you see there is what you get. Every answer shows the exact code article it came from, which is the part you can check against your own compendium before you spend anything.

Written from source text (never memory), with the citation printed under every answer so you can check it against your own compendium; independently re-checked against the cited provision before publishing; and gated by packaging tools that physically refuse to ship a question missing a verified status, a citation or its stored proof. Every question also carries a Report this question button, and a confirmed error is corrected in the next bank update. The full method is here.

Yes. Every update to a bank you own is free through the 2024 code cycle, including new questions, and they appear in your dashboard automatically. There is nothing further to pay on an exam you have already bought.

There is no expiry on your licence and nothing to renew. Two caveats worth stating plainly: activating a device runs through this site, so it needs the site to be there, and your progress is stored in the browser you study in, so clearing site data or switching devices resets the progress while the key itself keeps working.

Yes. Stripe emails a receipt showing the amount, the date and the product, which is what most expense claims need.