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Your fast track to ASE B-Series certification. Master the exam through targeted drills and a Prometric-style testing environment. Build your credentials and command top-tier pay.

Anywhere you are

Study Anywhere. Anytime.

Your certification should not have to wait until you are sitting at a desk. Everything runs in the browser, so it works on the shop computer, the school lab, and the phone in your pocket.

  • Fast on shop Wi-Fi or on 5G in the parking lot
  • Progress syncs to your account, not to one device
  • Nothing to download, nothing to install
  • Pause a test mid-question and pick it up on your phone
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The simulator running on a phone

How It Works

No lectures, no 300-page reading assignment. You answer questions, the system finds your holes, you close them.

01

Pick your test

B2 through B6. Take ten free questions right now and see where you actually stand before you spend a dollar.

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02

Drill what you keep missing

Every wrong answer gets logged by category. The platform builds your practice sets out of your weak spots instead of the stuff you already know.

03

Walk in ready

Run the full timed exam in a screen built to match the real Prometric interface. No surprises on test day, because you have already sat in that chair.

Straight comparison

The Old Way vs Our Way

Plenty of people still study for these tests out of a printed guide. Here is exactly what you get in each hand.

The trade-magazine training guide

One volume per test, from the industry's own publisher.

  • Just 65 practice questions. Once you have seen them, you have seen them
  • No lessons. It quizzes you, it does not teach you
  • No lab work. Nothing to do with your hands
  • No timed exam. Nothing that feels like the real test centre
  • Printed in 2020 and never updated since
  • No score history. Nothing tells you which category is sinking you
  • 70 pages, one book per test. Five tests means five books
  • Digital copy locked to 3 devices and cannot be downloaded
  • Lives in your locker, not in your pocket
0practice questions, total

ASECollisionTestPrep.com

Every test. Every category. In your pocket.

  • 50,000+ questions across all five B-series tests
  • 453 ASE Academy lessons that actually teach the material
  • Hands-on lab assignments with step-by-step photos and a graded check-off
  • Full timed exam in a Prometric-style screen, unlimited retakes, new mix every time
  • Updated continuously by a working collision instructor
  • A written explanation after every single question, right or wrong
  • Tracks your weak categories and builds the drill for you
  • Flashcards, 2,478 key terms, tool ID and a searchable glossary
  • Opens on any phone. Study on break, in the parts line, on the bus
0 practice questions, and climbing

65 questions in the book. 50,000+ here, with 453 Academy lessons and hands-on labs. Same test, studied two very different ways.

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What it costs

Simple, Honest Pricing

One price per test. No subscription that quietly renews, no per-question upsell, and the same price on all five. Built for first-time certification and recertification.

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Simulator Access

$99

One time · 30 days · one test

  • The whole question bank for 1 ASE test
  • Full timed Prometric-style exam, unlimited retakes
  • Weakness drills built from your own wrong answers
  • Flashcards, key terms, tool ID and glossary
  • An explanation after every question
  • Pass probability and readiness gauges that show when you are ready
  • Study by ASE task-list section, so you cover what the test covers
  • Quick 10 sets for a short break, on any phone, tablet or computer
  • Flag tough questions and practice them later
  • See where you rank on the technician leaderboard

Which ASE test?

Best value

Simulator + ASE Academy

$298

One time · 30 days · one test

  • Everything in Simulator Access
  • 453 narrated Academy lessons
  • Hands-on lab assignments with graded check-off
  • Taught in repair order, the way the work actually happens
  • Interactive hands-on slides and animated right-way, wrong-way drawings
  • A progress review and quiz in every lesson, with a report card
  • Unit final tests to prove each section
  • Facts sourced to OEM repair procedures, OSHA and EPA, with the source linked

Which ASE test?

The trade's top 10% earn $87,040 a year. Simulator access is $99, once. Ten questions are free before you decide.

For shops and schools

Run a Class or Manage your Techs

Instructors and shop managers see every student or technician in one place, and who needs help first.

  • Needs Attention flags anyone who has gone quiet, is struggling, or has a test coming up and is not ready.
  • One roster with questions answered, accuracy, pass probability and weakest task area for each person.
  • They join with a code from their own dashboard. Joining is their choice, and they can leave any time.

Study access is separate. Buy seats for your students or technicians when you order, or let each one buy their own.

Mario Hernandez, Collision Repair Instructor at Sheridan Technical College Your instructor
Who is behind this

Built By a Working Collision Instructor

Every question, every explanation and every lesson on this site was written by one person who teaches this trade for a living. Not a publishing house, and not a content farm.

  • Collision Repair Instructor at Sheridan Technical College in Hollywood, Florida. Full-time faculty teaching the collision repair and refinishing program.
  • Refinish painter since the early 2000s. Production shops, custom work, and OEM-aligned refinish jobs.
  • Former multi-store paint operations manager across South Florida: colour systems, mixing, inventory, staff and shop accounts.
  • SkillsUSA advisor, coaching students to regional and state wins in collision repair and refinishing.
  • South Florida I-CAR Committee, running its outreach to local shops and educators.
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Why it is worth the hours

What ASE Certification is Worth

These are national figures for automotive body and related repairers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Look at the spread, not the middle.

Bottom 10% $36,390 Where you sit when nothing on paper separates you from the next applicant.
Median $51,680 The middle of the trade, May 2024.
Top 10% $87,040+ Certified, experienced, and the shop cannot afford to lose them.
$36,390$87,040+

About $50,000 a year separates the bottom of this trade from the top. Certification is one of the few things on that list you control completely, and about 16,000 jobs a year open up through 2024–34.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Automotive Body and Glass Repairers — wages May 2024, outlook 2024–34. National figures; your market will differ. BLS does not publish a separate wage for certified versus uncertified technicians.

The end goal

The B-Series Patch Collection

Employers hire the person who can prove it. These are the patches ASE issues to technicians who pass the official exams, and they are what every question on this site is pointed at.

Collision Repair and Refinish Technician patch

Collision Repair & Refinish Technician

What you wear after you pass any one of the four core tests.

  • ASE B2: Painting & Refinishing
  • ASE B3: Non-Structural
  • ASE B4: Structural
  • ASE B5: Mechanical & Electrical
Collision Damage Estimator patch

Collision Damage Estimator

The specialist credential for the person writing the sheet.

  • ASE B6: Damage Analysis & Estimating
Master Collision Repair Technician patch

Master Collision Repair Technician

The top of the ladder. Gold Master bar under the logo.

  • Requires ASE B2, B3, B4 and B5
  • The one everybody in the shop notices
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From the Collision Repair Blog

Long-form guides on passing the tests, refinish and body technique, structural work, estimating, and building a career in this trade. Written by a working instructor.

We'll Cover Your Deductible: What That Offer Actually Costs a Shop

Deductible giveaway ads are back as repairable claim counts fall. Here is the arithmetic behind the offer, the state statutes that ban it, the one state regulator that allows it, and what a technician should do when the shop runs the promotion.

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What Tesla Requires for Rivets and Structural Adhesive, and Why Ford, GM and Stellantis Answer It Differently

Tesla publishes grip ranges, hole sizes, die pairs, installation pressures and a three-product adhesive list for structural repair, and its rules are not the rules you learned on a Ford. A working walk through Tesla's flow form rivets, self-piercing rivets, approved chemicals and cast underbody repair zones, with Ford, General Motors, Stellantis and Honda as the contrast.

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Is There an ASE Refresh Exam for Collision? What B-Series Techs Actually Take

There is no ASE Refresh Exam and the ASE Renewal App does not cover collision. Here is the real ASE B-Series recertification test, what is on it, and how to study for a short test where every question counts.

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ASE Recertification 2026: How Collision B-Series Recertification Actually Works

ASE collision certifications expire every 5 years. Here's the real recertification path for ASE B2 through B6, why the ASE Renewal App is not an option for collision techs, and how to recertify from home.

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How to Repair a Plastic Bumper Cover: Welding vs Adhesive (ASE B3 Prep)

A working tech's guide to repairing plastic bumper covers: how to identify the plastic, when to use two-part adhesive vs nitrogen plastic welding, the step-by-step process, and the common mistakes the ASE B3 exam loves to test.

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How to Fix Orange Peel in Automotive Paint (and Stop It Before It Starts)

A working painter's guide to orange peel: what causes that bumpy finish, how to dial it out at the spray gun, and how to color sand and buff it out when it has already cured.

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Gear Up Like a Pro

Spray guns, PPE, abrasives, meters, and books that working collision techs actually use. Picked and reviewed by an instructor, not by an algorithm.

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