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We’ve helped thousands of interior designers pass the NCIDQ Exams the first time…and we’d like to help you, too.
The worst thing you can do is go into the NCIDQ Exams unprepared.
It costs too much — time, money, and lost career opportunities — to not get it right the first time.
What you need is to focus on studying the right things.
Our team of NCIDQ Certificate holders and licensed designers have been in your shoes, and we have helped thousands of designers like you realize big dreams of interior design mastery…by helping you determine where to focus your energy for the exam.
A big part of passing the NCIDQ exams is understanding the format, timing, and scoring of the tests themselves — not just the concepts.
Many designers won’t realize that – they’ll lose precious time going into the exam only half prepared, without any practice.
Simply reading a book or taking a weekend crash course isn’t enough — you need a proven, practical, NCIDQ Exam prep program that walks you step-by-step how to:
You need a proven path that takes the mystery out of the NCIDQ Exams and shines a light on what you need to know to pass all three exams – the first time you take them.
For so many of us, just the thought of taking an exam stirs up stress. The studying and preparation… the worrying about whether we’ve covered the right material. And then, of course, there’s the actual writing of the exam.
We’ve all been there! From high school to college and beyond, we’ve crammed and memorized and struggled to do our best.
How Pretesting Can Help You Pass the NCIDQ Exams
Recent research has shown that cramming and memorization won’t help you prepare as much as one deceptively simple technique:
Pretesting.
As it turns out, pretesting can raise your score on the exam by an average of 10%.
This recent development in learning science tells us that taking pretests can help you achieve success on the final exam.
Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, a psychologist from U.C.L.A., found in her research that pretesting can raise your score on the final exam by an average of ten percent. That’s enough to mean the difference between passing and failing the NCIDQ Exam.
Traditional studying can trick your brain into a false sense of security. You think you’ve mastered concepts and ideas, but when exam day comes, you blank out.
Why? You’re less likely to understand a subject with passive studying because you simply tried to memorize it.
Using pretesting, you can actually change how your brain thinks.
Even giving wrong answers on a pretest can change how your brain remembers and recalls data. This sets your brain – and you – up for future success by helping you “fail forward.”
When you use pretesting to study for the IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC exams, you’re more likely to be relaxed and performing at your best on exam day.
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Introducing
NCIDQ Exam Complete
NCIDQ Exam Complete is the all-in-one prep course to help you get ready for the IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC Exams.
…even if you’re feeling overwhelmed about trying to master the exam material.
…even if you’ve tried to pass the exams before and failed.
With NCIDQ Exam Complete, you’ll get the inside scoop on what and how to study — and get experienced, expert advice from NCIDQ Certified designers when you have questions.
Here’s Exactly How It Works:
As soon as you join the program, you’ll get access to a series of lessons with videos, quizzes, live webinars, email reminders and worksheets, and blog posts to help you prepare for the IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC Exams.
You get access for all three exam courses into one subscription-based program, so you can buy monthly access or save money by signing up for 6 or 12 months.
Either way, you can work through the materials a week at a time following our study schedule – so you’ll never feel overwhelmed. Or you can also work through the entire course at your own pace.
Everything is ready for you online anytime, anywhere you have internet access – easily accessible from your tablet, desktop, or mobile phone.
Get Our Step-by-Step Study Schedule, & Take Our Practice Tests Whenever You Like.
When you sign up for NCIDQ Exam Complete, we’ll also give you our step-by-step exam prep schedule, so you know exactly what you should be studying each week to get ready for the IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC exams.
As part of NCIDQ Exam Complete, you can take full, timed online practice exams that accurately simulate the exam experience or try our module quizzes for a quick snapshot of your current level of knowledge.
You can take our tests as many times as you like. However, each test is delivered from a pool of hundreds of questions and answers, all updated for the current NCIDQ Exams, and no two testing sessions are exactly alike.
When You Enroll Today, You’ll Also Get These Helpful Bonuses
We know you’ll need help and support as you prepare for the exams.
When you join NCIDQ Exam Complete at the Premium or Team level, you’ll get these bonuses:
Bonus #1:
Private NCIDQ Study Group
When you join the program, you’ll get access to a private online study group facilitated by NCIDQ-certified interior designers.
This is a vibrant community of motivated, like-minded designers who will support you and answer your questions as you’re preparing for the exam. Access anywhere with our exclusive mobile app.
NEW! Bonus #2:
Live Workshops for IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC
First take the Qpractice Practice Test with questions selected specifically for the workshop. Next, join us live while we cover:
- Question by question review, discussion, and answers
- Test-taking strategy and how to avoid common mistakes
- Effective use of the exam features and resources
Access to the live workshop and all replays is included with your subscription to Qpractice.
Bonus #3:
Live “Office Hours” with NCIDQ Certified Designers
On Saturdays, you’ll be able to get on a live webinar with our team of NCIDQ Certified Designers and ask them your most pressing questions.
This will help reinforce the learning you’re doing during the week, and help you iron out any trouble spots you hit when you’re studying on your own.
If you can’t make it live, that’s okay – every Q&A session will be recorded, and you can access them through the member’s area at any time.
Bonus #4:
The Answer Vault
Get access to more than 200 bite-sized video answers to your most common questions. We take discussions from our Live Office Hours and edit them into short videos that you can watch anytime for fast answers to your questions.
- Full access to all Qpractice prep materials for all three NCIDQ Exams, including IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC
- Video, audio, and text-based lessons, worksheets, articles, and other helpful tips
- The ability to take as many pretests and quizzes as you want
- The ultimate daily study schedule, to help you get ready for any exam, or all three
- Your own private study group with the mobile app, facilitated by NCIDQ-certified interior designers
- Live “Office Hours” and with NCIDQ Certified Designers
- Answer Vault recorded audio and video answers to the most-asked questions
Sign up for Premium Access
All plans automatically renew.
Change or cancel anytime.
All plans include:
- IDFX, IDPX, & PRAC Courses and Lessons
- IDFX, IDPX, & PRAC Study Guide and Quizzes
- IDFX, IDPX, & PRAC Practice Tests
- IDFX, IDPX, & PRAC Workshops
- Work Experience Assessment
- Daily Study Schedule
- VIP Study Group for Q&A with mobile app
- Live & Recorded Office Hours and Chats
- Answer Vault: Recorded Audio/Video Q&A
Do you have a group of 5 or more? Learn more about our team plans →
Frequently Asked Questions
The Qpractice study plan is 12 weeks to cover all knowledge statements on the NCIDQ Blueprints for all 3 NCIDQ Exams — IDFX, IDPX, and PRAC.
You can complete each Qpractice daily summary lesson, with audio and quiz, in about a half-hour — 1 hour. Most of the answer Answer Vault videos are short, too, about 5-15 minutes. So you can make regular daily progress towards your goal.
Reviewing for topics you're unfamiliar with will take more reading. Take the Work Experience Assessment along with your Baseline Practice Tests to help you determine how much extra time you need to spend. Based on your experience level and weak areas, spend extra time going over that material and then test again. You can take our practice tests unlimited times throughout the testing season.
For the NCIDQ Practicum, we recommend you follow the study schedule, review the lessons, and spend about a week reviewing each content area, including quizzes, plus a week or two on each case study. We’ve incorporated the review time into our study schedule, so it aligns with other exam topics, and you can save time by studying for all three exams at once if you need to.
The study schedule leaves you some time free on the weekends to catch up or take a break. So if your schedule is tight, don’t worry – just plan ahead and study when convenient for you.
All courses require a textbook. You have a choice of either the most current edition of the Qpractice NCIDQ Exam Guide or the Interior Design Reference Manual.
You will also need a computer with:
– Current Windows or Mac operating system with an updated browser
– Desktop or laptop for PRAC Case Study question types*
*All other course content, study group, and regular multiple-choice questions work fine on current tablets and phones.
Qpractice NCIDQ Exam Complete gives you access to all of our resources to prepare for the IDFX, IDPX, or Practicum Exams separately or in any combination.
It’s easy to filter the content to study for any single exam only.
In CIDQ’s 2021 knowledge blueprints, the updated Practicum Exam knowledge statements overlap with IDFX or IDPX knowledge statements. So we believe it’s best to organize the content where you can efficiently study for more than one exam at a time.
Plus, the lessons, quizzes, and other resources note the relevant exam sections and knowledge areas covered to help keep you on track.
Yes! We remapped all practice tests, added new questions, and moved more than 1700+ questions to the latest exam distribution for 2021.
Members will find a daily study schedule in the study group and detailed lesson summaries with audio following CIDQ’s 2021 NCIDQ Exam Blueprints.
We have more new quiz questions, new case studies, and new book versions on the way. We actively continue our updates throughout every exam season based on member feedback and post notice of the updates regularly in the study group.
As soon as you register, you'll get immediate access to the NCIDQ Exam Complete members area, where you can get started right away. In addition, the combined program gives you access to all the lessons, quizzes, and practice tests you’ll need to prepare for the IDFX, IDPX, PRAC Exams, or all three!
For almost 10 years now, we have seen that those that participate often (daily or 3-5/week) are most successful in learning and taking the exams.
By participating in discussion and also helping other students, answering questions and explaining the pieces you do understand, it helps commit the lessons to your memory. Actually taking action like this helps you retain more, vs losing 80% of what you simply read.
We offer access to NCIDQ Exam Complete as a monthly recurring subscription. You’ll save money and get two free months when you sign up for a 12-month plan.
4-Month Premium Access is a fixed-length subscription including your choice of textbook and does not automatically renew.
Monthly, annual, and team subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. If you do not wish to continue your subscription, simply cancel before the renewal date. Your exact renewal date and the amount are shown to you at checkout before you purchase and are also available to you in your account to view at any time.
IMPORTANT: It is your responsibility to cancel before your subscription renews, and we send renewal reminder emails for all subscriptions to the email you specify at purchase. Once canceled, you will retain access until that date; then, your cancellation will be final.
You can easily manage your subscription in your account and cancel or resubscribe at any time. Please contact us if you need help with this.
Qpractice tests are specifically designed to cover the exam content areas in the same topics and proportion of questions per content area as the actual exam. Your score is broken down by content area so you can assess your strengths and weaknesses to plan your study.
Our members who have taken both versions felt that our tests matched the exam content in both topic and format, and many said that taking the practice tests was an essential part of their test prep process.
While it's unlikely that questions would be identical, you may see similar questions on the exam or in other resources.
No. The NCIDQ Exam is not scored like a typical exam because it is based on scaled scores, not raw scores. The scores are scaled from 200 (0 correct) to 800 (all correct), with the passing/cut point set to 500. This is done so that different exams using different blueprints or different exam administrations can be weighted as equally challenging, even when the questions are different.
Qpractice allows you to retake your practice tests as many times as you wish with a different question assortment each time. In addition, you can view your scores by exam content area, with answers and explanations for each question. We also include reference sources for further study. With NCIDQ Exam Complete, you’ll know exactly which content areas to focus on.
Qpractice has full and half-length timed and untimed practice tests designed to help you prepare for the computer-based NCIDQ Exams. Each daily lesson has quizzes on the lesson topic.
The timed tests simulate the actual exam experience in both timing and delivery. Plan to spend the same amount of time on the practice exams as you will on exam day. You can take the tests as many times as you want, and you’ll get a different random selection of questions each time, balanced to match the same weight and distribution as the actual exam.
You can’t stop a Qpractice test before completing and get your score, so if you’re in a hurry, you can take and retake the short quizzes at the end of each lesson.
All the information for joining the Office Hours or Workshop sessions is available in the member’s area.
Each Live Q&A session lasts about one to two hours.
All Live Office Hours and Workshops are recorded and posted in the Qpractice member’s area for you to watch anytime.
Have more questions?
We answer many questions at our help desk or send us a message at hello@qpractice.com
I look forward to having you join us in Office Hours,
Lisa League, NCIDQ
Founder, Qpractice
PS: As soon as you register, you’ll get immediate access to the private Qpractice members area. Qpractice is delivered through members-only videos, quizzes, live webinars, email reminders and worksheets, and blog posts.
Qpractice is designed to give you precisely what you need without spending hours and hours trying to figure out what to learn.
But you need to do the work!
