I spent 5 years inside Florida's biggest contractor licensing school. Then I built the company I wished I could have sold you.
My name is Ricky Carrion. For five years I was the top sales rep at the largest contractor exam prep school in Florida. I talked to thousands of tradespeople: framers, roofers, plumbers, A/C techs, crew leaders running jobs under someone else's license. Skilled people with 10, 15, 25 years in the field.
And I watched the same story play out over and over. Someone finally decides to get their license. They pay. And then they wait. Two weeks, sometimes five, for books that were promised in days. They call and get a voicemail. The momentum that took years to build dies in a shipping delay.
So I built ContractorExamHQ to fix it.
Here's what we do differently:
- Your reference books arrive hand-tabbed and highlighted to the exam answers, shipped within 48 hours. If we're late, we credit you $100.
- Your Business & Finance materials ship the same business day, and your course access starts within minutes of enrolling.
- We register you for the exam, and we complete your DBPR application with you, line by line.
- And we make you one promise: we work with you until you're licensed. We don't mail you a box and vanish.
The Florida exams are open book. Passing isn't about how smart you are. It's about preparation and how fast you can find the answer. You already know how to build. We get the state to put your name on it.
Meet the licensed contractor leading our instruction. He's also my dad.
Dave Duke is a Florida State-Certified General Contractor (License CGC1516341) and a licensed inspector (License HI6828) with decades in Florida construction. He leads instruction at ContractorExamHQ and holds every lesson to one standard: if a contractor teaches it, it has to match the books the state tests from.
Your exam prep courses? Taught by a licensed contractor too.
Jack E. Sheffield is a Florida Certified Building Contractor (License CBC1254613) and the instructor of our exam prep courses. He has spent years teaching Florida tradespeople how to attack an open-book exam: where every answer lives, how the questions are worded, and how to move through 120 questions with time to spare.
Marketers make study guides. Contractors make contractors.
Don't take our word on any of it. Every license on this page can be checked on the DBPR's official license search, the same way your future customers will one day verify yours.
Your application has a name behind it. Hers is Cassandra.
Cassandra Carrion leads our applications department and runs the operation behind the 48-hour book promise. She is also my wife, which tells you how seriously we take this company.
Passing the exam is only half the fight. The DBPR application is where licenses stall: a missing form, a wrong box, a credit report ordered from the wrong vendor, and suddenly you're waiting on a deficiency letter instead of a license number. Cassandra sits with you and completes the application line by line, checks every document before it goes in, and tracks it until the state gives you an answer.
When you call us, you're not reaching a call center. You're reaching the family that built this.
The rest of the crew behind the promise
Nicolas Rivera, License Consultant. The first voice most people hear. He maps your license path, gives you straight answers on cost and timeline, and tells you the truth even when the truth is "you're not ready yet."
Klodian Muca, Shipping Department. The 48-hour promise has a name on it, and it's his. Every tabbed and highlighted library that goes out the door goes through Klodian.
Adrienne Burke, Head Purchaser. Florida changes its approved reference editions, and Adrienne makes sure every set we ship is built on the current approved editions at time of order.
ContractorExamHQ is an independent, private exam preparation and licensing support company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Florida DBPR, the Construction Industry Licensing Board, Professional Testing Inc., or Pearson VUE.