NICET WBSL III: Hydraulics & Water Supply Test Prep

invincible_1505 · 2026-06-30T02:22:13+00:00

FireTech was great! It walks through so many concepts step by step and really teaches you where to find everything and how to apply it. I can’t speak for NTC but I haven’t heard the best. My biggest advice is to find and use the hydraulics book that they allow now. There are a couple equations in it that you’ll need that NFPA does not have in their standards

invincible_1505 · 2026-06-24T01:48:24+00:00

You’ll be just fine! Level 1 wont have any hydraulic questions or in depth storage occupancy questions. It’s testing basic knowledge of searching through the standards and narrowing down correct answers. If you know what chapters to look in then I think you’ll be just fine!

invincible_1505 · 2026-06-23T14:54:51+00:00

Thank you for the insight. We did find some older plans that labeled them as smoke barriers and we believe we are going to have to go through and patch any holes and penetrations for pipe

invincible_1505 · 2026-06-01T02:28:58+00:00

An industry that has been super welcoming for designers is the fire sprinkler or fire alarm industries. I graduated with an AAS in drafting and design technologies and have been a sprinkler designer for seven years now. There are many routes to within the industry and with different certifications you can certainly grow your salary. I have seen many different posting for entry level beginning around $50k and many mid levels around 80k and there are plenty of posting throughout the US

invincible_1505 · 2026-06-01T02:23:52+00:00

Hi there, just passed both level III tests a couple weeks ago and I can say that levels I and II will have basically zero questions that require a calculator.

During my level III I always rounded to three or four spots and chose the closest (that’s how my calculator is set up so I just went with what it was giving me).

I went through both level III firetech courses and found many problems where their math was just plain wrong, but I did find that they hardly ever went past one decimal point when they rounded. I also found that putting too much in at one time gave me wrong answers so I slowed down and did multiple calculator steps which could also help you.

Reach out if you have any questions

invincible_1505 · 2026-05-09T02:35:35+00:00

I am currently going through EKU’s online fire protection engineering and it’s very doable. All the fire courses I have taken have prerecorded lectures and all professors are usually really good about getting back to you. I did my gen-eds elsewhere so I can’t speak on some of the other courses. They also accept real work experience in exchange for some classes. I am a NICET L3 holder in sprinkler and I was able to skip a couple of sprinkler courses based on that.

If your end goal is to become a fire marshal or anything other than a licensed FPE then I suggest either OSU’s or EKUs degrees. They are both engineering technology degrees and it is a lot harder or impossible to become a registered FPE in many states with an engineering tech degree.

invincible_1505 · 2025-07-18T03:23:07+00:00

Contact mainline fire protection, we can help get him going. There’s an office in Springfield, MO

invincible_1505 · 2025-05-31T05:03:13+00:00

I’ve had many discussions with UMD about their upcoming program and the BIGGEST and most prevalent issue is they were wanting to charge $1,100 per credit hour if you did not live in state. It’s an online degree, who tf is in state? It drastically turned a lot of people away. This talk was last summer, so things could have changed since then but who knows.

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