Book Tests - 0.25 PDC
As of October 1, 2011, members may only earn 1.0 PDC to apply towards their current cycle requirements. Please review your Current Cycle Transcript before taking any book tests to ensure you have not reached that limit. It is also recommended you review your All Inclusive Transcript to ensure you have not taken a test before. You may only take a one test per book, pass or fail.
NCRA is committed to promoting reading and expanding the educational opportunities for our members. The Council of the Academy of Professional Reporters (CAPR) and the NCRA Teacher Certification Committee has approved the following books for use in the continuing education program for RPRs and CRIs. Listed, please find our Approved Reading List. Reporters may complete exams on any book listed and earn either 0.25 PDC for passing grades of 85% and above. Tests are graded on a pass/fail basis and may not be repeated.
The books listed here represent a variety of of subjects and viewpoints, and their appearance in the list does not imply endorsement of the authors opinions or research by NCRA. Likewise, a book's absence from the list does not imply censure of any kind. NCRA will attempt to add new books to this list.
MAIL OR FAX YOUR BOOK TEST
Member $40.00
Non-Member $50.00
You may mail or fax your book tests. CEUs will only be awarded to participants who pass the exam. Tests may not be repeated. All tests are $40 apiece, regardless of the price printed on the answer key.
Please submit your test, along with a Participation Verification and Credit Request form (listed below) to:
National Court Reporters Association
Attn: Continuing Education Book Test Submission
8224 Old Courthouse Road
Vienna, VA 22182
Fax: (703) 556-6291
NEW Book Tests
- In the Garden of Beasts
- Dust Tracks on a Road
- Isaac's Storm
- Digital Barbarism
- Jerusalem, Jerusalem
- The Seamstress
- City of Thieves
- Ahab's Wife
- Angel of Darkness
- Codependent No More
- Cold Mountain
- Daughter of Fortune
- Deadlock
- Duma
- Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man That Won the War
- Empire Falls
- Every Breath You Take
- Final Appeal
- Founding Brothers
- Galileo's Daughter
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Greatest Generation
- Hide
- House of Sand and Fog
- I Hate You - Don't Leave Me
- Impasses of Divorce
- Look Again
- My Sister's Keeper
- Nineteen Minutes
- Time to Kill, A
Book Test Index (Regular PDFs)
- A Passion for Excellence
- All Things Wise and Wonderful
- Angela's Ashes
- Bean Trees, The
- The Birth Order Connection
- Blue Zone, The
- Change of Heart
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Elephant and the Dragon, The
- Faith of My Fathers
- Finding Eichmann
- Flyboys
- The Glass Castle
- Grammar for Court Reporters Part I
- Grammar for Court Reporters Part II
- Hard Way, The
- Help, The
- How To Say It To Seniors
- If I am Missing or Dead
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Kite Runner
- The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson
- Listening Closely: A Journey to Bilateral Hearing
- Making the Connection
- Never Enough
- Never Let Me Go
- The Omnivore's Dilemna
- Pact, The
- S is for Silence
- The Sexy Years
- Shadow Divers
- Small Sacrifices
- Too Late to Say Goodbye
- We Were the Mulvaneys
