How this works

Why the practice tests are free, and how we make money

The most common thing people say about a free practice test is that nothing good is free. Fair. Here is the arrangement, with nothing left out.

The deal in three lines

  1. Every one of the 775 exams has a free diagnostic. No account, no email, no card.
  2. If you want full-length papers and the full cited bank, you pay: $39.99 once for one exam, or a subscription for all of them.
  3. We do not run ads and we do not sell your details. The free test is the demo; paid access is the business.

What the free tier actually gives you

A diagnostic drawn across the exam's domains, scored at the end with a breakdown of where you were weak, plus the sample questions and their citations on every exam page. It is enough to know whether you are close, and enough to judge whether our questions are worth paying for. It is not a full paper, and we say so on the page rather than letting you find out at question twenty.

What paying gets you

Full-length papers built to the real exam's domain weights, the complete question bank with the regulation cited on each question, the explanation for every distractor, and the AI study assistant that knows which question you are looking at. One exam is $39.99, once, for life. All exams are $19.99 a month, $47.97 a quarter, or $143.93 a year. Teams are priced per seat on the team page.

Why we can afford to do it this way

The expensive part of exam prep is writing questions that are actually correct. We write ours from the regulation, cite it, and keep the citation visible, which means the free sample is also our proof of quality. A candidate who takes the diagnostic, checks two citations against the CFR, and decides to buy is a better customer than one who arrived through an ad. That is the entire growth strategy, and it only works if the free tier is honestly good.

What we will never do

Frequently asked questions

What is the catch with the free practice test?
There is none in the sense people fear. Every exam has a free diagnostic you can take without creating an account. It is shorter than a full paper and it ends with a weak-spot breakdown. If that is all you need, you are done and we never contact you.
So how does CertQuestUSA make money?
Paid access. A single exam is $39.99 once, for life. All-access is $19.99 a month, $47.97 a quarter, or $143.93 a year. Teams pay per seat. That is the whole model: we sell full-length, regulation-cited practice papers to people who tried the free one and want more.
Do you run ads or sell my data?
No ads on the site, and we do not sell or rent email addresses. We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to see which pages get used and where people get stuck, and Google Ads conversion tracking to know whether our own advertising works. The privacy page lists every tool.
Why should I trust a free question bank over a $200 course?
Because you can check it. Every question on this site cites the regulation or official source it is written from, and that citation is shown next to the question. A course that will not tell you where a question came from is asking for trust. We are asking you to look it up.
What happens if I pay and still fail?
Every paid plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee with no conditions. Beyond that, if you score 90 percent or better on two full papers and still do not pass the real exam, email us and we extend your access free until you do.

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