Six optional, self-paced study modules covering the same knowledge areas the Skill Ready Techs Competency Exam tests. Free with any technician account, and entirely optional — you can sit the exam without touching them.
Four steps, no schedule, no cohort, and nothing to buy.
Nothing is locked behind anything else. If electrical diagnostics is the area you are least sure about, start there and skip the rest. Most technicians work through two or three and leave the ones they already do every day.
Each module is broken into short written lessons built around the numbers and relationships you actually use on a call — pressure-temperature relationships, superheat and subcooling targets, static pressure, gas manifold pressures, defrost sequences — rather than classroom theory.
Every module ends with a short multiple-choice knowledge check. Score 85% or better and that module is marked complete on your profile. Miss it and you can retake the check as many times as you want, with an explanation shown for every question you got wrong.
Module completion is not a prerequisite for the Competency Exam and does not change your score on it. It is simply a way to find your weak areas before they show up in a graded result.
The same six knowledge areas the Competency Exam draws its questions from.
Compression, condensing, metering and evaporation as one connected loop rather than four separate parts.
Working a circuit methodically instead of swapping parts until the unit runs.
Why so many complaints that look like a refrigerant problem are actually an air problem.
The rules that carry real regulatory and personal-safety weight on every job.
The system most often misdiagnosed as “low on charge” in the middle of winter.
Ignition, combustion and the checks that keep a furnace call safe.
No schedule, no cohort and no deadline. Progress saves as you go, so you can pick a module up across several sittings between jobs and come back to exactly where you stopped.
Short lessons, readable on a small screen, with no video to buffer through on a job-site connection. Everything works the same on a laptop at home.
Each module you finish is recorded on your technician profile. It sits alongside your exam result and EPA 608 status as a signal to employers that you keep current — but it is never a substitute for either.
There is no module fee, no bundle to buy and no upsell at the end of one. A technician account costs nothing and includes all six.
Knowledge checks are practice, not assessment. Retake one as often as you like — wrong answers come with an explanation so the retake teaches you something.
Our Resources library collects PT charts, duct sizing guides, and EPA and OSHA references you can keep open while you work through a module.
No. The modules are entirely optional and are never a prerequisite. You can create an account and sit the Competency Exam the same day.
Only by teaching you the material. Module completion has no effect on grading — the exam is scored the same way for everyone.
No. Completing them does not certify you in anything and is not an EPA 608 credential. EPA 608 is issued by an EPA-approved certifying organization and verified here from your physical card — see EPA 608 Verification.
These are a refresher for working technicians, not a from-scratch curriculum. If you are starting out, a trade school or apprenticeship is the right place to begin — come back here to prove what you have learned.
The modules live inside your technician account.
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