NAQTC does not provide any type of study materials for the exam(s). You will have to obtain the test methods to study through your company or by purchasing those test methods through the AASHTO website.
We do provide you with the performance checklist to study. Please email Lisa Cody for the performance checklist.
Overall 70% with a minimum of 60% on any one test method.
No.
No, a laminated copy of the test method will be available for reference at each testing station.
Anyone failing a test method on the performance exam may repeat that test method during the day of the performance exam. Repeat trials will be allowed in not more than 50% of the total test methods in that performance exam. Failure of any one of the prescribed test methods after two trials will constitute failure of the whole performance exam. Anyone failing the performance examination on the first attempt is required to retake the performance examination and pass it.
Exam can be in either.
Obtain a registration form from the NAQTC website by clicking on register for exam. Complete and forward to UNR with payment.
Visit the NAQTC Exams Calendar.
You will receive a confirmation notice either by fax or by email with information about the exam location.
Yes.
Radiation Safety Certificate (if required), photo ID, calculator, pencil, eraser, etc.
You will be issued a card which has your qualification(s) and qualification(s) number printed on it. It will also be posted on the NAQTC website.
No, but some agencies in Nevada accept WAQTC in lieu of NAQTC, check with appropriate agency on any specific project.
The NAQTC is the Nevada Alliance for Quality Transportation Construction program. The Alliance was formed through the Nevada Quality initiative. It was developed to insure that Nevada's construction field testers are qualified in the areas of sampling & density, aggregate, and asphalt. It also should help minimize field-testing discrepancies.
Technicians responsible for sampling of materials, performing and reporting on tests in any of the technical areas in which Qualification is offered: sampling & density, aggregates, and asphalt.
You can re-take it.
The process is the same as if you failed it the original first time.
You must get at least 60% on any individual test method to pass the written exam.
- Alleged violations by an NAQTC certified technician of the NAQTC Rights and Responsibilities Agreement (NAQTC Agreement) should be reported by filing a written complaint to either the NAQTC program administrator at the email shown on the NAQTC website or to any current NAQTC board member.
- The alleged violation(s) of either negligence or abuse by the certified technician will be brought to the attention of the NAQTC president or his/her designee. The president, or designee, will assign a non-biased board liaison to investigate the matter within one month of receiving notification of the alleged violation.
- The investigation will be performed by the board liaison within one month of being assigned to investigate the matter. The investigation will include, at a minimum, an interview of the certified technician who is alleged to have violated the NAQTC Agreement and an interview of the person who filed the original complaint.
- The board liaison then will issue a written summary of the investigation findings to the NAQTC president of either negligence or abuse, if any, and recommendations for discipline, if any, for the certified technician.
- Disciplinary actions recommended, if any, generally will follow the steps outlined in the NAQTC Agreement. However, exceptions to these steps can be considered based on the circumstances of the findings.
- Within one month of receiving the written summary of findings by the board liaison, the NAQTC board then will vote (either at a board meeting or through an email vote) to either agree with the recommended disciplinary action or to develop a different option.
- Within one month of the issuance of the written summary of findings by the board liaison, the NAQTC president will issue a letter to the certified technician that summarizes the findings of the investigation and disciplinary actions to be taken.
- The certified technician may appeal the board’s decision by attending an NAQTC regular board meeting and presenting their case to the entire NAQTC board, which will vote in that meeting whether to uphold the disciplinary action or modify it.
- The NAQTC board decision will be final.
About NAQTC
NAQTC is a nonprofit organization whose members include Nevada Department of Transportation, Clark County RTC, RTC Washoe, Nevada counties, Nevada cities, the American Consulting Engineers Council and the Nevada Contractors Association. The NAQTC alliance was formed through the Nevada Quality Initiative in an effort to improve the quality of transportation construction materials in Nevada. This program is prescribed to meet in part, the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations 637, Subpart B - Quality Assurance procedures for Construction. A person obtaining qualification under the NAQTC program is listed in the Qualified Technician Registry.
For more, see the NAQTC handbook.