Certified Pennsylvania Evaluator Exam
(CPE) 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Assessor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Any person responsible for the valuation of real
property for ad valorum taxation purposes
Duties and Responsibilities of an Assessor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Discovering,
Listing, Valuing
Clean & Green - Act 319 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Has two values, Value in Use
and Value in Exchange
An Assessor is accountable to whom? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Himself, taxpayers
and all taxing authorities
In order for an assessor to accomplish the task of discovering property, the
assessor needs what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An adequate mapping system (
GIS) showing every parcel of land.
,Last day to submit an appeal - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔September 1
All appeals must be heard and decided by what date? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔October 31st
Last day to apply for the Homestead/Farmstead Exclusion - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔March 1st
Last day to apply for the Clean and Green program for the next tax year - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔June 1st
Date that public notice must be given that tax rolls are open for public
inspection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔July 1st
STEB must certify to all assessment Office their CLR's by which date? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔July 1st
All notice of appeal decisions must be mailed - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔November
15th
Assessors Certification Date - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔November 15th
,Levels of appeal process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. County Board of Assessment
Appeals, 2. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, 3.Commonwealth
Court of Pennsylvania, 4.Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Assessors are charged with the responsibility of administering what? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔A uniform and equitable assessment system
March 17th 1987 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Assessors Certification Act required
that all persons responsible for the valuation of real property for ad valorem
taxation purposes be certified to do so by he State Tax Equalization Board.
Has three years from the start of employment to become certified
March 17, 1992 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The responsibility to certify assessors
shifted from the State Tax Equalization Board to the State Board of
Certified Real Estate Appraisers.
State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The state
board certification body
To be certified by the State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers, the
assessor must: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Possess a high school diploma, or its
equivalent, or two years of assessing experience
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, 2. Shall be at least 18 years of age
3. Shall be a resident of this Commonwealth for at least six months
4. Successfully completed a minimum of 90 hours of the basic course of
study of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAO) or the
Assessors Association of Pennsylvania (AAP)
5. This act does not apply to counties of the First Class (Philadelphia
Counties)
How often must an assessor recertify? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Every two years.
June 30 Odd number years (license runs out)
July 1 odd number of years (starts a new license year)
Example: July 1, 2009 to June 20, 2011
To become re-certified the assessor must accumulate how many hours of
continuing professional education credits? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔28 hours
7 hours must be on USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal
Practice)
(CPE) 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Assessor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Any person responsible for the valuation of real
property for ad valorum taxation purposes
Duties and Responsibilities of an Assessor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Discovering,
Listing, Valuing
Clean & Green - Act 319 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Has two values, Value in Use
and Value in Exchange
An Assessor is accountable to whom? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Himself, taxpayers
and all taxing authorities
In order for an assessor to accomplish the task of discovering property, the
assessor needs what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An adequate mapping system (
GIS) showing every parcel of land.
,Last day to submit an appeal - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔September 1
All appeals must be heard and decided by what date? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔October 31st
Last day to apply for the Homestead/Farmstead Exclusion - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔March 1st
Last day to apply for the Clean and Green program for the next tax year - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔June 1st
Date that public notice must be given that tax rolls are open for public
inspection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔July 1st
STEB must certify to all assessment Office their CLR's by which date? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔July 1st
All notice of appeal decisions must be mailed - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔November
15th
Assessors Certification Date - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔November 15th
,Levels of appeal process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. County Board of Assessment
Appeals, 2. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, 3.Commonwealth
Court of Pennsylvania, 4.Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Assessors are charged with the responsibility of administering what? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔A uniform and equitable assessment system
March 17th 1987 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Assessors Certification Act required
that all persons responsible for the valuation of real property for ad valorem
taxation purposes be certified to do so by he State Tax Equalization Board.
Has three years from the start of employment to become certified
March 17, 1992 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The responsibility to certify assessors
shifted from the State Tax Equalization Board to the State Board of
Certified Real Estate Appraisers.
State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The state
board certification body
To be certified by the State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers, the
assessor must: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Possess a high school diploma, or its
equivalent, or two years of assessing experience
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, 2. Shall be at least 18 years of age
3. Shall be a resident of this Commonwealth for at least six months
4. Successfully completed a minimum of 90 hours of the basic course of
study of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAO) or the
Assessors Association of Pennsylvania (AAP)
5. This act does not apply to counties of the First Class (Philadelphia
Counties)
How often must an assessor recertify? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Every two years.
June 30 Odd number years (license runs out)
July 1 odd number of years (starts a new license year)
Example: July 1, 2009 to June 20, 2011
To become re-certified the assessor must accumulate how many hours of
continuing professional education credits? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔28 hours
7 hours must be on USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal
Practice)
