Pest Control Tests was built because there wasn't a good free resource to study for the pesticide applicator certification exam. So we made one — and we're trying to make it the best in the country.
Independent study resource. Pest Control Tests is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by any state pesticide regulatory agency or certifying body. Our questions are written from publicly-available pesticide reference manuals and are for practice only — we are a private company, not a certifying authority.
If you've tried to study for a pesticide applicator exam, you know the options: a dense reference manual, a handful of stale paid courses, and YouTube videos covering different test material.
Most people learn faster by doing: taking practice exams, getting answers wrong, reading why, and trying again. That's the entire model here — a deep bank of practice questions and flashcards drawn from the official reference manuals, scored, explained, and re-shuffled every time you re-test.
The mission is simple: be the cheapest, fastest, and most thorough way to prepare for your pesticide exam. The free tier gets you started — real CORE practice exams for chapters 1–5 with instant explanations, matching flashcards, and all the CORE cheat sheets and study guides on the site. Premium opens the full CORE bank, Sim and Drill modes, per-chapter flashcard filtering, full score history, and the leaderboard when you're ready to push harder.
I'm Jake, a pest control tech. I built Pest Control Tests while I was studying for my own license exams — the study resources that existed didn't fit how I actually learn, which is by doing problems, getting them wrong, and understanding why.
Every question, cheat sheet, and study guide on this site was written to be the resource I wished I'd had. I used early versions of it to study for and pass my own license exams. The site has even more ways to study now — flashcards by chapter, one-page cheat sheets, full study guides, label simulators — all built around the same idea of learning by doing. The content is drawn directly from the official reference manuals — the same material the real exams test against — and every question is reviewed against the source before going live.
Found a question that's wrong or out of date? Flag it on the question itself, or drop me a line. This site is maintained by one applicator who's still in the field, not a corporate publisher — real feedback is how it gets better, fast.
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