Package Overview

Prepare for your North Carolina Highway Contractor exam with expert-led online instruction, realistic exam practice, and professionally tabbed and highlighted reference books. 

This package helps you build knowledge across the exam's broad range of highway construction topics while practicing how to locate information efficiently during the open-book portions of the exam—without spending hours preparing your reference books yourself. 

What's Included 

  • Online Exam Prep Course: Self-paced instruction covering the key topics tested on the North Carolina Highway Contractor exam, including paving, grading, concrete, safety, erosion control, tunneling, railroad and marine construction, and business and law. 
  • Exam Simulator: Practice with exam-style questions to reinforce your knowledge, identify areas for improvement, and build test-day confidence. 
  • Exam-Ready Book Set: Exam reference books professionally tabbed and highlighted to help you find important information quickly and efficiently during permitted open-book sections. 
  • Monthly Instructor Office Hours: Access experienced instructors for additional guidance as you prepare. 

Why Choose Exam-Ready? 

The North Carolina Highway Contractor exam requires knowledge of many different construction disciplines, along with the ability to navigate permitted reference materials. Professionally prepared books help you spend less time organizing materials and more time studying, practicing, and strengthening your knowledge. 

Best For: Contractors who want comprehensive online exam preparation and ready-to-use reference books without the additional study materials and licensing consultation included in Full-Service. 

Exam Overview

The North Carolina Highway Contractor exam is open-book. Candidates have 265 minutes to complete the 90-question test. A minimum score of 70% (63 correct questions) is required to pass.

You can see a detailed outline of exam content and testing policies in the candidate information bulletin linked here.

Class Days & Times

This is an entirely online, self-paced course. Our online pre-recorded content is available 24/7 with unlimited access for 180 days after purchase.

If you require an extension after your initial 180 days of course access, contact our support team to request a course extension for $150.

Books

The North Carolina Highway Contractor Exam is open-book. You may bring the approved references, listed here, into the exam.

Tabbing and highlighting your books for use in the exam is part of our exam prep curriculum. In a hurry to take your exam? Check out our exam-ready pre-tabbed and highlighted book bundle here.

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Access Period 6 Months

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