Washington will let you sit for the PS before you have the years

Washington's amended rules took effect August 1. You can now sit for the NCEES principles and practice exam before finishing the experience requirement. The experience still has to be there before the state exam and before licensure, and Washington still wants eight years total.

So the gate didn't move. The timing did.

Which is a narrower thing than what Florida did — that one opened the exam to people who haven't met the education or work requirements at all.

What I'm curious about is whether the sequencing was ever the problem. Is there a good reason to make somebody wait most of eight years before they can sit for it? Or does taking it earlier, while the book work is still fresh, make more sense than taking it after you've been doing the job long enough that the exam is the easy part?

And for those of you who took it late: would you rather have taken it early?

Came up in this week's Witness Corner.