Basic Requirements
Basic Notary Duties
The Notary Exam
NotaryClasses.com
Fees to Become a Notary
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When someone wants to become a notary in California for the first time, that person is required to take a state-approved "?" before taking the notary examination.
What is a 6-hour state-approved notary course?
100
Most notaries in California perform this type of notary act most often.
What is an Acknowledgment? The primary duty of a notary is to verify the identity of a signer and to take certain steps during notarization to help minimize fraud. The notary will always complete and sign notary wording which assures that these procedures were followed. The most often completed notary wording is called an Acknowledgment and this notary wording is always already on the document or it is attached to the document. Much more about this during the notary seminar!
100
The notary applicant will take an exam with this many multiple choice questions.
What is 30 questions?
100
A notary applicant taking the notary seminar class with NotaryClasses.com, Inc. has free access to study guides, games and the notary online course by logging into this section of the NotaryClasses.com website.
What is the Student Services page?
100
What is the cost of the notary seminar at notarycasses.com?
The seminar fee is $79.95.
200
The notary applicant need to achieve this minimum score on the notary examination in order to pass.
"What is 70?%?"
200
When a notary is required to have someone take an oath regarding the truthfulness of the contents within a document being signed, the notary will complete this notary act.
What is a Jurat? A Jurat is used when the signer is required to swear an oath (or similar) to the notary that the document wording they are signing is all true. This is the second most often notary procedure after taking an Acknowledgment.
200
The notary examination requires payment of this fee at the time the exam is taken.
What is $20?
200
The notaryclass.com applicant has the opportunity to take the notary examination at this location.
What is the notary seminar site? The notary exam is taken immediately after taking the notary class at the same location.
200
The answer is: "$40 in a form of check or money order made payable to the Secretary of State." What is the question?
What is the combined cost to submit the notary application and take the exam?
300
A notary seeking a recommission must complete this or an approved 6-hour state approved educational course in order to take the notary examination.
What is a 3-hour state-approved refresher educational course?
300
When a notary records the identification information in the notary journal, the record must include the description of the identification document, the identification number and the date of expiration unless the identification document is already expired which means the notary would record this date instead.
What is the date of issuance? The notary may use an expired identification document but only if it was issued less than five years ago.
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The notary exam may be retaken if necessary a maximum of this many times in one year.
What is 12 times? A notary may retake the exam as many times as necessary to pass but not more than once per calendar month.
300
What comes with a notary class & exam seminar?
"The class fee is $79.95 and includes full access to the online notary video course which is searchable by topics for up to one year for easy review later when you need to remember correct procedures, all study materials on the day of the exam, all necessary forms including the notary application, Proof of Completion, notary text materials, 22 sample exams and much more.
300
The answer is: "$80" What is the question?
If the notary chooses to submit their live scan to the DOJ and FBI at the seminar site with their notary application, what is the cost?
400
What are the four items you will need to submit to the testing proctors on the day of the notary examination?
"A check or money order for $40 made payable to the Secretary of State, a Proof of Completion signed by the instructor for the notary course, a passport-style photo and a completed and signed notary application."
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Notaries keep all journals as long as they are commissioned even through multiple commission terms unless the notary has a lapse of more than 30 days between commissions. If that lapse between commissions occurs, then within the next 30 days, the notary is required to submit all journals to this entity and begin a new journal.
What is the County Clerk's Office in the notary's county of business?
400
The notary applicant will have ______ minutes to complete 30 questions on the notary exam.
What is 50 minutes?
400
What comes with the notary supply package in class available only to notaryclasses.com students?
"The notary journal and thumbprint pad; a Notary Forms CD containing 29 forms that are updated for the most recent requirements; two oath cards for Credible Witnesses and Subscribing Witness; an emergency acknowledgment pad and jurat pad; a notary identification card with lanyard; an official notary seal; registration and one year no charge listing on our national notary search engine; notary telephone support for one year.... all for $79.95."
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The answer is: "$20 made payable to the Secretary of State." What is the question?
What is the most it will cost an applicant to retake the notary exam if that applicant takes the live 6-hour notary seminar?
500
If a notary is seeking recommission and does not want to have a break between commissions, the notary is able to complete take the notary examination up to one year before the expiration date of the current commission but can choose to take the educational course this much sooner than taking the notary exam.
What is one year? (A notary seeking recommission may take the notary course up to two years before the current commission expires but may take the notary exam no sooner than one year before the date of expiration.)
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A common misunderstanding of the notary procedure is that many people believe that notaries notarize documents, but this is not true. The notary notarizes this on documents and not the documents themselves.
What are signatures?
500
On the day the notary takes the notary exam the first time, the notary must bring to the exam site an acceptable identification document, a passport photo, a completed notary application, a Proof of Completion for the notary course and a check or money order made out to the Secretary of State to pay the exam fee and the notary application fee in this amount.
What is $40?
500
How can notary applicants continue on with notaryclasses.com if they want to create their own mobile notary business?
"Become a certified loan signing notary agent." What is the question?
500
The answer is: "Log into the Student Services tab at the top of the NotaryClasses.com page." What is the question?
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