Opens January 2027. $1 for waitlist members.
Study for your P.Eng technical exams on your phone, a few minutes at a time: original problems with worked solutions, short lessons and timed mocks, on your schedule.
Pick the exams on your assessment letter and add your email. The first exams open in January 2027, months before the summer sittings, and waitlist members get access for $1. The exams people ask for most are built next.
Everything is written for one syllabus at a time, so you only study what your exam can ask.
Equivalent annual cost
A town can buy pump A for $48,000 (operating $6,500 a year, salvage $4,000) or pump B for $62,000 ($4,200 a year, salvage $6,000). Both last 10 years. At 6%, which has the lower equivalent annual cost, and by how much?
New problems for every syllabus topic, never copied from past papers.
Every step shown, so you see exactly where a method goes wrong.
One idea per lesson, drawn out, then problems on that idea.
Your syllabus as a checklist, ordered by what past sittings asked most.
Question 3. A simply supported reinforced concrete beam spans 7.2 m and carries a factored load of 46 kN/m. Choose the bottom reinforcement and check the bar spacing to CSA A23.3.
Full mocks against the clock, on paper like the real sitting.
Codes from your assessment letter, or the subject in your own words.
Your syllabus as a checklist, ordered by what past sittings asked most.
Lessons and problems you can finish in a lunch break. No class times and no term dates: start the day your letter arrives.
Like the real sitting: pen and paper against the clock, marked by topic so your last weeks go where they count.
Engineering Economics
Time value of money, interest, present worth and rate of return, after-tax analysis with CCA, break-even and risk.
Elementary Structural Analysis
Reactions, shear, moment and deflection of determinate structures, influence lines, moment distribution and slope deflection.
Elementary Structural Design
Limit states design: loads, timber and steel members and connections, reinforced concrete beams and columns.
Municipal and Environmental Engineering
PEO's municipal and environmental exam. Other regulators set Elementary Environmental Engineering under the same code.
Hydraulic Engineering
Flow in pipes and open channels, pumps and the hydraulics of civil works.
Highway Design, Construction, and Maintenance
Highway geometric design, pavements, construction and maintenance.
Management of Construction
Planning, scheduling, estimating, contracts and running a construction project.
Geotechnical Materials and Analysis
Soil properties and classification, compaction, seepage, consolidation and shear strength.
Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
Applied thermodynamics and heat transfer: cycles, conduction, convection and radiation.
Design and Manufacture of Machine Elements
Design and manufacture of machine elements: shafts, bearings, gears, fasteners and fatigue.
Advanced Strength of Materials
Advanced strength of materials: stress analysis beyond the basic beam and column cases.
These are the first 11 of the 89 exams in our catalogue. Any exam you type into the form is counted, and the most requested move up. See all exams
Technical exams come early on the road to a P.Eng. CertNova covers the steps after them too, so one team stays with you from your assessment letter to your licence.
Your regulator compares your degree with the Canadian standard and may assign technical exams.
Exam-by-exam prep with original problems, worked solutions and timed mocks. Opens January 2027.
CertNova Technical Exam Prep
The National Professional Practice Exam, on law, ethics and professional practice.
NPPE Pro
Many regulators, PEO included, assess your engineering experience through the competency-based assessment.
CBA Pro
Once your exams, the NPPE and your experience are accepted, your regulator can grant the licence.
The order and the details vary by regulator. Your own letters and your regulator's portal set the rules.
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CertNova's tools for the NPPE and the CBA. More than 500 P.Eng applicants have used CertNova's tools and services.
Reza Kashi, P.Eng, is CertNova's co-founder and a civil P.Eng. He reviews every civil and Complementary Studies problem and solution before it goes live. When we add mechanical and electrical exams, a licensed P.Eng in that discipline will review them, and we will name them here.
We read up to 14 sittings of published past papers per exam for one reason: to see which syllabus topics come up and how often. In 11-CS-1, five topics carried 70% of the marks. We never copy or reword those papers.
In January 2027, the month PEO takes registrations for its Spring/Summer 2027 sitting (January 4 to 29), whose exams run from April to July. The first exams are 11-CS-1, 16-Civ-A1 and 16-Civ-A2, and waitlist members hear first.
Waitlist members get access for $1 when prep opens in January 2027. We will email the details before launch.
Yes. Technical exams come early on the road to a P.Eng. NPPE Pro prepares you for the National Professional Practice Exam, CBA Pro helps you write up your experience for the competency-based assessment, and competencybasedassessment.ca has free guides to the whole P.Eng process.
No. CertNova is independent. It is not a regulator, is not affiliated with Professional Engineers Ontario, Engineers Canada or any provincial regulator, and has no say in which exams you are assigned or how they are marked.
For each exam we read up to 14 sittings of published past papers to see which syllabus topics come up and how often. We do not copy, reword or sell those papers. Every problem we publish is written new and checked by a P.Eng.
Yes. Type it in your own words. We count every exam people ask for, and the most requested move up the build order.
From the Engineers Canada examination syllabus, which several regulators use when they assign technical exams. Your assessment letter lists the exact codes you need.
Sometimes. APEGS, Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (since July 2025) and EGBC (under its Policy 1.C) let some applicants waive confirmatory exams through the competency-based assessment. The rules are narrow, so check yours.
We never sell it. We use it to tell you when prep for your exams opens and to send study resources. To count sign-ups from our ads, Meta receives a hashed (scrambled) copy of it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
CertNova Software Solutions Inc., the team behind NPPE Pro and CBA Pro. The content is reviewed by Reza Kashi, P.Eng.
Add your exams and email. Prep opens in January 2027, and waitlist members hear first and get access for $1.
CertNova Technical Exam Prep is a study app being built for P.Eng applicants in Canada who have been assigned technical exams from the Engineers Canada syllabus. It opens in January 2027, months before the summer sittings, and people on the waitlist get access for $1. It will offer original practice problems with worked solutions, short lessons and timed mock exams for one exam at a time, starting with 11-CS-1 Engineering Economics, 16-Civ-A1 Elementary Structural Analysis and 16-Civ-A2 Elementary Structural Design. It is made by CertNova Software Solutions Inc., which also covers the steps after the technical exams: NPPE Pro for the National Professional Practice Exam and CBA Pro for the competency-based assessment of experience. The content is reviewed by Reza Kashi, P.Eng. CertNova is independent of PEO, Engineers Canada and every regulator.
