About PassCosmo: Free Cosmetology State Board Practice

PassCosmo is an independent site. PassCosmo publishes free cosmetology state board practice tests and guides, weighted the way state written exams actually weight their content.

What this site is

Cosmetology board exams weight sanitation, chemical services, and hair, skin, or nail sections differently depending on the state, and studying evenly across topics wastes time. We built each state's practice set to match its own weighting, so time spent on infection control questions reflects how much of the real exam actually covers it.

How we work

We start from each state cosmetology board's candidate information bulletin and the testing vendor's content outline. Pages are drafted with AI assistance and checked against those bulletins before publishing, a process our editorial policy covers in detail. Sanitation and disinfection standards get cross-checked against current state board rules rather than older cosmetology textbooks.

How we make money

Practice tests here are free to take. We earn affiliate commissions when readers buy kits, textbooks, or prep courses through links on the site, detailed in our disclosure.

Corrections

State exam weighting and sanitation rules change periodically. Flag anything wrong through contact and we'll correct and date it.