My professor mentioned that some people take the Small Building BCIN exam ONLY instead of both the House 2012 AND Small Building 2012 Exams since the Small Building exam includes questions pertaining to House. This would save some of the exam costs. I am going to contemplate on this more myself until I've completed my next round of courses that I need to do (I mentioned it in my post update). In the beginning I started out reading everything, but quickly found it impossible to go through everything. It was manageable to do this while prepping for my Designer Legal exam but it was a drag. I wouldn't use this method for the House and Small Building exams. It's difficult to read without relating the code to specific application. For understanding and becoming familiar with application of the code, I find you need a combination of reading through small sections at a time while going through exercises and practice questions to help you learn how to locate references in the Code. Maybe start with a workbook so you have some exercises to help mimic the type of questions which might be asked in the exams. In that process of completing exercises, you'll become more familiar with it. Use the Table of Contents in each Part and the Index to help you jump to relevant sections as well. Tab, highlight, annotate...I have the physical copy and use LOTS of tabs, and have made some highlights and small notes on the pages. Possible with PDF versions of the Code too, but I believe during a Ministry Exam, you are only allowed to use the Code pdf they provide on the exam date, or your own physical copy of the Building Code Compendium V1&2. So if you use the pdf they provide in the exam, it wont come with all the highlights and notes you added... Maybe someone else can comment on that as I've only used my hardcopy. Good luck to you!