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Practice tests and flashcards for the NIC Advanced Practice Esthetics Theory Examination. Extended scope beyond basic esthetics — chemical peels, microdermabrasion, advanced skin analysis, and lymphatic drainage.
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PSI writes its own National examinations, which carry the word National and are a different item bank from the NIC. California, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and Michigan share one form character-for-character in cosmetology, esthetics and nails, and this bank is built to it. Barber is separate — California’s barber examination is written for its own board, and CA Barber prep is built to that. Check the state guide before you buy.
Ten states write their own exam rather than sitting a national one. We cover Texas today, built to the TDLR/PSI outline. For the other nine, check the state guide before you buy anything.
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Twenty-nine states use the NIC National Theory Examination, and our NIC banks are built to its Candidate Information Bulletin. The other twenty-two do not: nine sit PSI's own National programme, Nevada and Pennsylvania share a Pearson VUE core, and ten states write their own — Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Connecticut and New York among them. We build three banks separately: the NIC one, the Texas TDLR/PSI one, and the PSI National form that seven states share — California, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and Michigan. For Hawaii, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Nevada, Pennsylvania and the nine other state-written exams the NIC banks cover the underlying science but not that exam's outline, so check the state guide before you buy.
No. Both run their own written exam through PSI, with their own content outlines and their own domain weightings. California's took effect 1 April 2026 and weights Safety and Infection Control at 30% for cosmetology; Texas is administered for TDLR. Studying a NIC bank for either one means practising the wrong proportions.
The subject matter overlaps, so it's useful as supplementary study — but the blueprints differ enough that it shouldn't be your main prep. California weights Safety and Infection Control far more heavily and compresses the service domains the NIC leans on. For a California sitting, use the California prep.
PSI offers the California exams in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese. Our own prep covers Spanish across nine products, Vietnamese across four, Korean across six and Simplified Chinese for TX Cosmetology — including every California product and every Texas product.
Yes. In Spanish (Español): NIC Cosmetology, Barber Styling and Hair Design, plus PSI National Cosmetology, PSI National Manicurist, CA Barber, TX Cosmetology, TX Esthetician and TX Manicurist. In Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt): NIC Nail Technology, PSI National Cosmetology, PSI National Manicurist and TX Manicurist. In Korean (한국어): NIC Cosmetology, NIC Esthetics, PSI National Cosmetology, PSI National Esthetician, TX Cosmetology and TX Esthetician. In Simplified Chinese (简体中文): TX Cosmetology.
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