PHR · Aligned to the HRCI 2024 ECO
PHR Complete Pass System
The Adaptive Platform1 / 5
$25.00/mo · $149.99 billed once · 6 months of access
- 1,700+ exam-style questions on the HRCI 2024 ECO
- 3 timed mock exams, 115 questions each
- Adaptive Practice that targets your weakest areas
- PHR Explained Video Course: 26 animated lessons
- HRCI Essentials Book: 461 pages, 16 chapters
- 600+ Rapid Recall flashcards across 7 functional areas
- Reviewed by SHRM-SCP-certified HR professionals
- Pass Guarantee on every Complete Pass System plan
Access length
One-time payment · 6 months · No subscription
- Instant access
- Phone, tablet & desktop
- Secure checkout
The Pass Guarantee
- Complete the study plan and all three mock exams, then sit your exam
- If you don't pass, your plan extends free for the same length you bought
- Send your score report within 30 days of your exam date
- Included with every Complete Pass System plan
Access and delivery
- Login details arrive by email within 5 minutes of purchase.
- Fixed access length, no auto-renewal.
- Every update published during your access is included.
- Works on phone, tablet and desktop.
Employer reimbursement
- Many employers cover exam prep as professional development.
- Every purchase comes with a receipt; custom invoices on request.
1,700+
Exam-style questions
Aligned to the HRCI 2024 ECO
3
Mock exams
26
Video lessons
PHR Explained Video Course
8
Modules
3.2 hours of video
600+
Flashcards
7 functional areas
460+
Book pages
HRCI Essentials Book
“Passed PHR on my first attempt. The 1,700 questions with rationales taught me the WHY behind every law, not just the answer. The Employee & Labor Relations practice alone was worth the price.”
The PHR Complete System
What’s in the box
Four formats, one HRCI 2024 outline. Pick the one that fits the workday you just had — they reinforce each other on purpose.
The Adaptive QBank1,700+ exam-style questions · 1 in 2 answers get a diagramSee every feature
PHR Explained Video Course26 animated lessons · 8 modulesSee the course
HRCI Essentials Book460+ pages · 280+ diagram platesLook inside the book
Rapid Recall Flashcards600+ HR cards · 7 functional areasFlip a card
Practice that studies you back
Every session feeds the engine — it learns what you miss and rebuilds your next session around it.
Answer questions and the bank quietly rebalances — your weakest functional areas get more reps, automatically, after every single session.
Daily quizzes, assigned practice sets, and a streak that keeps you honest between workdays.
Three full 115-question timed mocks with a question palette, flagging, and inline comparison tables — the same rhythm as test day.
One readiness score, a week-by-week trend, and per-functional-area accuracy — so "am I ready?" stops being a feeling.
Highlight inside any explanation and save it as a note. Every note stays linked to the question it came from.
What candidates tell us
Federal law was my nightmare going in. The drawn-out decision trees made FMLA and FLSA finally click — I could see the rule work instead of rereading it for the tenth time.
Honestly, half of what I learned came from the wrong answers. Every option gets explained, so even a bad guess turned into something I remembered on exam day.
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Share your storyPHR Explained Video Course
Twenty-six animated lessons across eight modules — every high-yield PHR pattern turned into a scene you watch and hear. Each rule is a decision-tree or timeline, not a definition to memorize.
Drawn in the same visual hand as HRCI Essentials — the law spine you watch is the same one you annotate in the book.
HRCI Essentials Book
One visual guide across aPHR, PHR, and SPHR — plain-language theory, every framework drawn instead of described, and each credential’s scope clearly marked on the page.
Included with every Complete Pass System plan — read it on any device, no extra cost.
PHR®, SPHR®, and aPHR® are registered trademarks of the HR Certification Institute (HRCI). This independent study resource is not endorsed by or affiliated with HRCI.
Chapter 01
The HR Professional & the Three Credentials
Foundations
Free chapter · The book
Read Chapter 1, free
Chapter 01 · The HR Professional & the Three Credentials · Foundations
600+ flashcards, zero filler
The thresholds, agencies, and one-line differentiators that have to be automatic on exam day — tagged by functional area.
- Labor Relations
NLRB ULP Charge Filing Window
6 months from the alleged unfair labor practice. Compare: 180 days EEOC default, 300 in deferral states.
- Labor Relations
ADR Methods
Open door, peer review, mediation, arbitration — informal internal talks escalating to binding third-party decisions.
- Engagement
Stay Interview
A proactive talk asking top performers why they stay — retention feedback gathered before anyone decides to resign.
- Engagement
Flight Risk Matrix
Plots probability of departure against impact of loss. Aim stay interviews at the high-risk, high-impact quadrant.
- Engagement
360-Degree Feedback
Anonymous input from manager, peers, subordinates, and customers. Best used for development — not pay or promotion.
- Talent Acquisition
Economic Realities Test
The DOL’s employee-versus-contractor test under the FLSA: economically dependent on the employer, or in business for themselves?
- Talent Acquisition
IRCA
No hiring unauthorized workers. I-9 Section 1 by day one; the employer completes Section 2 within 3 business days.
- Talent Acquisition
ADA Conditional Job Offers
No medical exams or disability questions until after a conditional offer, for employers with 15 or more employees.
- Total Rewards
HIPAA Special Enrollment Period
30 days to enroll after marriage, birth, adoption, or loss of coverage — 60 days for Medicaid or CHIP events.
- Total Rewards
FLSA Workweek
A fixed, recurring 168 hours — seven 24-hour periods. Define it strictly on compressed schedules to avoid surprise overtime.
- Total Rewards
PBGC
Federal agency insuring private defined-benefit pensions — pays participant benefits up to a legal cap if an employer goes bankrupt.
- Business Management
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
Public companies need internal financial controls and an officer ethics code — and financial-fraud whistleblowers are protected from retaliation.
- Business Management
Compliance vs. Ethics
Compliance meets legal requirements; ethics follows core values even where no law applies. Allowable versus right.
- L&D
70-20-10 Model
70 percent experiential learning on the job, 20 percent social coaching, 10 percent formal instruction.
- HR Information
EEO-1 Private Employer Threshold
100+ employees for private employers; federal contractors report at 50. Annual demographic report to the EEOC.
Sixteen cards from the live deck, lightly compressed to fit the card face. Every card in the product carries the full detail.
Wrong answers turn into cheat sheets
Miss a question and the explanation comes back as a color-coded table — the law, the threshold, and the trap side by side. Far easier to remember than a paragraph.
- coded teaching diagrams
- 950+
- comparison tables
- 800+
- mocks with inline tables
- 3
Side-by-side comparisons 
Process flows, in order 
Thresholds, at a glance 
Counted from the live bank: 54 percent of QBank questions carry a coded teaching diagram, with 838 comparison tables across the package — including the inline tables inside the three mock exams.
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Inside the Starter
- The Adaptive QBank, 1,700+ questions
- Rapid Recall flashcards, 200+ cards
- The Pass Path study calendar
- The Exam Mirror, 1 timed mock exam
Only in the Complete Pass System
- PHR Explained Video Course — 26 animated lessons
- HRCI Essentials Book — 460+ pages, 280+ diagram plates
- The Pass Guarantee, which extends your plan free if you don’t pass
The Pass Guarantee
Complete the plan and the mocks. If you don't pass, you keep studying free.
If you complete the study plan, take all three mock exams, and don’t pass, we extend your plan free for the same length you bought — a 3-month plan gets 3 more months, a 6-month plan gets 6, a 12-month plan gets 12.
- 1
Finish your study plan and all three mock exams.
- 2
Sit the exam. If you don’t pass, send your score report within 30 days.
- 3
Your plan extends free for the same length you bought.
Included with every Complete Pass System plan.
Compared with the other PHR options
Prices and features re-verified on July 17, 2026.
| Feature | PrepSolution | HRCI Cert Prep | HRCP | Pocket Prep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full access price | $249.99 / 12 mo | $449 to $699 | $480 one-time | $20.99/mo or $124.99/yr |
| One-time payment, no subscription | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Pass guarantee included | Yes | money-back | money-back | 3 free months |
| Total practice questions | 1,700+ | count not disclosed | 2,150 | 1,500 |
| Full-length 115 question mock exams | 3 mocks | included | 3 mocks | 3 mocks |
| Digital study book included | included, 460+ pages | textbook costs extra | Yes | No |
| Video course included | Yes | Yes | audio only | No |
| Adaptive engine (targets weak areas) | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
Pricing and feature data pulled from each provider’s public website and re-verified on July 17, 2026. HRCI prices reflect the Cert Prep bundles ($449 promo base to $699 regular with premium video), all 180-day access. HRCP price reflects the 2026 Complete Print and Online edition. Pocket Prep price reflects the annual subscription. PrepSolution is our product; we are not affiliated with HRCI, HRCP, or Pocket Prep.
Who it is for
Built for every rung of the ladder
One volume, three credentials. Wherever you stand on the HRCI ladder, the book meets you there.
The aPHR starter
No HR experience required, and the exam expects none. The Foundational tier walks you through the field from the first page, and chapter 1 tells you exactly what the aPHR asks.
The PHR candidate
The working professional’s rung. The Do it tier keeps you at Professional depth across the whole lifecycle, from workforce planning to the bargaining table.
The SPHR leader
Strategy and judgment at the top rung. The Lead it tier marks the Strategic layer the SPHR tests: reading the business, leading change, and owning risk.
The career switcher
Coming to HR from another field? One volume teaches the whole body of knowledge in order, and the credential ladder in chapter 1 shows you where to step on.
The visual learner
286 diagram plates in one consistent hand and 200 fact panels. Maslow, the nine-box, the four-fifths screen, drawn once and kept.
The team certifying together
One book covers every rung, so an HR department can study from one consistent source whether each member sits the aPHR, the PHR, or the SPHR.
What the PHR is worth
HRCI publishes no salary research of its own, so these are the US government’s figures for the roles the PHR serves — operational HR today, management as the career compounds.
Published figures from the cited sources — individual pay varies by market, role, and experience.
Blueprint coverage
7 content areas, weighted the way the HRCI 2024 ECO exam weights them.
- Employee & Labor Relations20%
- Employee Engagement17%
- Total Rewards15%
- Business Management14%
- Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition14%
- Learning & Development10%
- HR Information Management10%
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about PHR prep.
About PHR prep
The HRCI-affiliated Learning System runs about $895 and centers on instructional reading. PrepSolution’s Complete Pass System is built around 1,700+ adaptive questions, 3 mock exams, 600+ flashcards, the HRCI Law Map, study calendars, and a pass guarantee for $249.99. We focus on practice volume, applied federal-law judgment, and the rationale-first explanations PHR candidates need to actually pass.
All content is aligned to the HRCI 2024 PHR Exam Content Outline — 7 functional areas: Business Management (14%), Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition (14%), Learning & Development (10%), Total Rewards (15%), Employee Engagement (17%), Employee & Labor Relations (20%), and HR Information Management (10%). If your study materials still reference the pre-2024 outline with 5 functional areas, they are outdated.
HRCI requires a minimum of 1 year of professional HR experience with a master’s degree, 2 years with a bachelor’s, or 4 years with a high school diploma. Eligibility is verified by HRCI when you apply — our prep platform supports candidates across all three pathways.
HRCI candidates typically need 80–120 hours over 10–14 weeks. Our 12-week calendar structures this into 60–90 minute daily sessions weighted toward Employee & Labor Relations (20%) and Employee Engagement (17%). The 8-week accelerated path is roughly 12–15 hours per week.
PHR (HRCI) leans heavier on U.S. federal employment law and the operational HR generalist role — strong fit for compliance-focused roles. SHRM-CP leans on behavioral competencies and Situational Judgment Items. Many HR pros take both over time. If your employer or job posting names one specifically, default to that. If neither is named and you handle day-to-day federal compliance, the PHR is usually the cleaner first credential.
PrepSolution for the PHR
The PHR Complete Pass System is built as a complete prep path: 1,700+ practice questions aligned to the HRCI 2024 ECO, each with a written rationale, plus 3 full-length mock exams. Every question is written and reviewed by credentialed professionals who hold the PHR, and Complete Pass System plans carry the pass guarantee: finish the study plan and mocks, and if you don’t pass, your access is extended free.
PHR prep starts at $89.99 one-time and runs up to $249.99 for the longest Complete Pass System plan. Every plan is a single payment for a fixed access length — no subscription and no auto-renewal — and current prices are always shown on this page’s pricing section.
Candidates usually weigh PrepSolution against HRCI Learning System, Pocket Prep, Mometrix. PrepSolution’s approach: every question is written by credentialed PHR holders, every answer includes a full rationale, plans are one-time payments rather than subscriptions, and the Complete Pass System includes the pass guarantee. When comparing, check question counts, which formats are included at each price, and access length.
About PrepSolution
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No. Every plan is a one-time payment. You pay once and get access for the full length of the plan you choose — 3, 6, or 12 months. There are no recurring charges, no auto-renewals, and no hidden fees.
If you complete the study plan, take all three mock exams, and don’t pass, we extend your plan free for the same length you bought — a 3-month plan gets 3 more months, a 6-month plan gets 6, a 12-month plan gets 12. This guarantee is included exclusively with the Complete Pass System.
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No. PrepSolution is an independent exam preparation company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SHRM, PMI, AACN, or any certification body. Our content is developed based on publicly available exam blueprints and content outlines.
Many candidates come to PrepSolution after a failed first attempt. The most common reason for failure is approaching judgment-based questions with workplace instinct rather than a systematic framework. Start with a diagnostic mock exam to identify your weakest domains, then follow the targeted study plan.
Many employers cover professional development costs including exam prep materials. After purchase, you’ll receive a receipt that can be submitted for reimbursement. Contact support@prepsolution.com if you need a customized invoice.
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