NABCEP exam seats — for BPI certification exams, the BPI centre is here. A NABCEP Registered Provider, PVARTP-0877. One fee of $240 CAD covers the NABCEP examination fee, reserving your exam, and confirming your appointment with the proctor — sat online from your own desk, or on paper, or at one of our locations.
Being a registered exam provider means we are authorized to administer the examination properly — the right room, the right proctoring, the right chain of custody. It buys you a seat. It does not buy you an advantage in the seat, and any provider implying otherwise is misrepresenting what the status is.
A seat with us is a single payment. It covers the NABCEP examination fee, reserving your exam, and confirming your appointment with the proctor for the online sitting — or a sitting at one of our locations, by appointment. You are not then sent off to pay a testing vendor separately or to work out a booking system on your own.
The fee tracks the US dollar, because NABCEP charges us in US dollars. If the rate moves far enough to change the price we will tell you before you pay, not after.
| Format | Where | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Proctored online | Your own home or office, on your own computer | The standard option. No travel, no test centre. |
| Paper examination | Arranged with us | On request. |
| At one of our locations | Our own sites | On request. |
Most candidates take the proctored online option, because it is the one that needs nothing of you except a quiet room and a working camera. If you would rather sit a paper exam, or sit it in a room with somebody there, ask on the booking form and we will arrange it.
A computer with a working webcam and microphone, a stable internet connection, government-issued photo identification matching the name on your NABCEP record, and a room where you can be alone and undisturbed for up to two hours. The proctor will ask you to show them the room before you start. If your connection is the thing you are worried about, say so when you book and we will test it with you beforehand rather than discover it on the day.
The examination is set, delivered and scored by NABCEP, and it is in English.
PV Associate is a knowledge credential with no experience requirement. The professional certifications — Installation Professional, Design Specialist, Installer Specialist, Commissioning & Maintenance Specialist — require documented installation experience and, on most routes, a training record. That experience is the long pole and no course shortens it. If that is where you are headed, the useful thing to do this year is start documenting the work you are already doing.
Our seat fee and our exam dates are identical for candidates who trained with us and candidates who did not. We do not offer earlier dates, better rooms or cheaper seats to our own students, and we do not ask on the booking form where you studied — because it is not relevant, and a centre that treats it as relevant should not be trusted with the exam.
This page is the NABCEP exam centre. Solar Canada is separately a BPI Test Center, administering Building Performance Institute certification examinations in Canada — including the field exams, which previously meant a trip to the United States.
Different certifying bodies, different trades, different rules and separate bookings. Which one you need → · The BPI catalogue →
No, and we will not ask where you trained. The fee, the dates and the room are the same either way.
No. The standard option is proctored online from wherever you are — your own computer, your own room. A paper examination and a sitting at one of our locations are both available on request.
Government-issued photo identification matching the name on your NABCEP record. NABCEP's candidate handbook is the authority on what is admitted.
The NABCEP examination fee, reserving your exam, and confirming your appointment with the proctor, and a confirmed seat — one payment of $240 CAD. The fee tracks the US dollar because NABCEP charges us in US dollars, and we will tell you before you pay if the rate has moved the price.
After you book. You get a confirmation, you pick the date that suits you, and then the instructions for the day arrive by email.
No. Eligibility decisions are NABCEP's alone. We handle your registration and administer the examination; we do not influence who is allowed to sit it or who passes.
Language options are set by NABCEP, not by the centre. Ask NABCEP before you apply.
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