A study deck for the new LEED v5 Green Associate exam — 551 spaced-repetition cards covering 461 distinct LEED v5 concepts, every answer source-cited directly to the LEED v5 Rating System. No fluff, no recycled v4 content. Read on a phone, finish in two weeks.
The candidate handbook for LEED v5 hasn't been published yet — meaning every prep provider is currently selling material based on the v4.1 system that LEED v5 explicitly replaces. We wrote 551 cards covering 461 distinct LEED v5 concepts directly from the LEED v5 Rating System (Buildings) itself, source-cited every answer back to the credit category, and built it as a deck you can run through on your phone in two-week sprints.
No video courses. No 3-hour webinars. No "study guide" that's just the rating system retyped. Cards. Wrong-answer breakdowns. Spaced repetition. Done.
Every card has four options. One is right. Three are plausible enough to fool someone who skimmed. The breakdown tells you why the right answer is right and where in the rating system it lives — so when you see it on the actual exam, you'll recognize the structure, not just the trivia.
The deck runs on a spaced-repetition engine modeled on SM-2 — cards you keep getting right space out, cards you keep getting wrong come back tomorrow. You don't think about the schedule. You just answer cards until they stop showing up.
Why Urban heat island reduction sits inside Sustainable Sites in v5, just as it did in v4 — high-SRI roofs, paving, and shading are credited under SS, not LT. Distractor plausibility is highest with LT because v5 expands site-level transit credits, but heat-island work stayed in SS.
USGBC has not yet published the official LEED v5 Candidate Handbook — the document that locks the exam blueprint, weighting, and any version-specific rule clarifications. When they publish it, every existing buyer auto-upgrades to the bundle (3 timed practice exams + the full study guide) at no additional charge.
You don't have to email us. You don't have to ask. The receipt you have is the proof of purchase, and we'll send the upgrade pack to the same email. That's the contract.
Every card in this deck is written against a single principle — short stem, four plausible options, citation back to the LEED v5 source document, and a wrong-answer breakdown so when you miss one you learn the trap, not just the right answer.
TradesmanPass exists to be the fastest path between someone who needs to pass a credentialing exam and someone who has passed it. The LEED v5 deck is part of that. If it doesn't work, the support email at support@tradesmanpass.com goes to a human, not a queue.
Because we don't have video studios, account managers, or a sales team. The cards cost what it cost us to write them, plus a margin small enough that a self-funded candidate doesn't have to think about whether it's worth it. The auto-upgrade promise is how we keep faith with buyers who buy before the v5 Candidate Handbook is out.
v5. That's the entire point of this deck. v4.1 was the prior rating system; v5 is the version USGBC began rolling out and that the new exam will test against. Most existing prep is still v4.1 with "v5 update coming soon" stickers on it.
The deck is one input into a multi-week study process. We can't promise you'll pass any more than a textbook can promise you'll pass — we can promise the cards are correct, source-cited, and that you'll know the rating system better at the end of the deck than at the start. If you finish the deck and feel underprepared, email me and we'll figure something out.
You buy through SendOwl (industry-standard digital checkout). You get a download link by email immediately. The deck is a single HTML file — open it on your phone or laptop, no app install, works offline once loaded. The bundle includes a separate PDF study guide and three practice exam files.
Yes — within 14 days, no questions asked, on the deck-only purchase. The bundle includes practice exams which can't be returned once viewed, so the refund window on the bundle is 7 days and depends on whether the exams have been opened.