California · Structural Pest Control Board
Every licence the Board examines for: the Applicator exam, and Field Representative and Operator exams for Branch 1 (fumigation), Branch 2 (general pest) and Branch 3 (termite). Each one is sampled to the Board's own published content weights and scored against the 70% pass line.
The entry licence. It is not divided by branch — a single 75-question exam covers label reading, equipment, application, safety and consumer notification.
Inspects, identifies, writes the report and recommends the work. Each branch is a separate exam with its own content outline.
The qualifying licence for a registered company. Same technical ground as the field rep exam, reweighted, plus a large block on business administration, supervision and recordkeeping. Pre-operator coursework is required before you can sit these.
Every exam is built in three parts, in the order you should actually use them.
1 · Understanding the exam. How many questions, how long, what passes, and the Board's own content outline with the real weight of each area and roughly how many questions it is worth. Plus what the licence actually lets you do, how to apply and schedule, and what happens on test day.
2 · Study. Notes for each content area — the concepts, the distinctions the exam turns on, and a numbers to know cold table for the figures that have to be memorised rather than reasoned out. Each section has a drill button that drops you straight into questions on just that area. There is a flip-card glossary underneath.
3 · Practice test. Four modes. Full mock runs the real question count against the real clock with no feedback until you finish — use it to find out where you actually are. Quick 25 is a weighted daily rep. Section drill is untimed with the explanation right after each question. Retry what you missed rebuilds an exam from your own wrong answers; get one right and it leaves the pile.
Mark I guessed as you go. At the end you get the guess count against the 70% line, which is the honest version of your score. A 72% carried by 30% guessing is a fail waiting to happen.
Signing in is optional. Everything works signed out — progress just stays in this browser. Sign in with Google and your missed piles, best scores and attempt history follow you between phone and desktop, and My progress shows every exam you have taken and which content areas keep costing you marks.
The first tab also carries a Where to read this up panel mapping each content area to chapters in Terry's books (blue Branch 1, green Branch 2, red Branch 3), Mallis, Truman's and the free UC IPM and DPR material.