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New edition for 2025: The leading set of practice questions for the challenging Louisiana notary exam--with detailed answers--all updated to the latest format and process. Questions and answers in four separate tests plus detailed explanations for each right and wrong answer, keyed to the page of the latest official Study Guide, to help coach students for the difficult exam. This unofficial resource takes notary prep to the next level by revealing the tricks of questions and formats, tactics for the test, and the law behind it.
Louisiana civil law notaries have unmatched functions, responsibilities, and opportunities but the exam has a 20% pass rate. Candidates need all the help they can get. The best prep classes and study groups recommend multiple practice questions to understand the format, content, and coverage of the actual exams the Secretary of State administers each year. Yet even the best workbooks and study aids are costly but barebones in the answers they provide. Their questions help, but students are left matching answers to page numbers. There's no guidance on why they are right and even less about why other good options aren't best.
This book fills that void with 131 questions and detailed clarifications, plus tactics illustrated by specific formats and options. Explanations are keyed in detail to the 2025 Study Guide (usable on any 2025 exam and later). Professor Childress, author of a bestselling supplemental book decoding the state study guide and teacher of Tulane's academic course in notary law, explains every twist he can think of that the examiners may try. Whether as a recommended supplement to a prep class, as spelled-out lagniappe to available workbooks, or as a new tool for self-study, this book should become standard fare for anyone contemplating becoming a commissioned notary.
An affordable addition to the Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books.
About the author
Steven Alan Childress is a senior professor of law at Tulane University who also teaches remote education courses in notary law. He earned a JD from Harvard and his PhD from Berkeley. He practiced law in California and clerked for the federal court in Shreveport. Alan is the author of the best-selling prep supplement, Louisiana Notary Exam Sidepiece to the 2025 Study Guide, as well as the introductory guide, Become a Notary Public in Louisiana.
