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Testing Policies and Procedures
If you're certified as a Certified Professional Tarot Reader (CPTR)
or higher rank, you may evaluate and pass or fail any candidate for
the rank of Certified Apprentice Tarot Reader (CATR). If the
candidate passes the examination, please immediately advise the
Board the name
and mailing address of the person on whom you've conferred the rank
of CATR. The candidate will receive this rank as soon as he or she
has paid the required certification fee.
To confer the rank of CATR on any candidate you must be convinced
he or she knows the meanings of all seventy-eight tarot cards and
can use those meanings in readings done with one, two and three card
tarot spreads.
If you're certified as a Certified Tarot Consultant (CTC)
or higher rank, you may evaluate and pass or fail any candidate for
the rank of Certified Tarot Reader (CTR). If the candidate
passes the examination, please immediately advise the Board the name
and mailing address of the person on whom you've conferred the rank
of CTR. The candidate will receive this rank as soon as he or she
has paid the required certification fee.
To confer the rank of CTR on any candidate you must be convinced
he or she knows the meanings of all seventy-eight tarot cards and
can use those meanings in readings done with tarot spreads using
from one to seven cards. You must also be convinced the candidate
knows more than one key word, phrase or concept for each card and
when to apply each meaning in a reading. The candidate may use any
of the following systems but is not confined to only these:
If you're certified as a Certified Tarot Master (CTM)
or higher rank, you may evaluate and pass or fail any candidate for
the rank of Certified Professional Tarot Reader (CTR). If the
candidate
passes the examination, please immediately advise the Board the name
and mailing address of the person on whom you've conferred the rank
of CPTR. The candidate will receive this rank as soon as he or she
has paid the required certification fee.
To confer the rank of CPTR on any candidate you must be convinced
he or she qualifies for the lower ranks of CATR and CTR and is able
to perform professional quality readings using spreads up to twelve
or more cards. You must be convinced the candidate believes and
follows his or her Code of Ethics in his or her tarot readings. If
you have any questions about his or her Code of Ethics, please
contact the Tarot Certification Board to discuss this matter.
The most important consideration in conferring this rank on any
candidate is the quality of the candidate's readings. You must be
convinced the candidate's readings are of professional quality or
you must fail the candidate for this rank. If you do fail the
candidate please explain why and indicate how he or she might
improve the quality of his or her tarot readings.
If you're certified as a Certified Tarot Instructor (CTI) or
Grandmaster (CTGM), you may evaluate and pass or fail any candidate
for the rank of Certified Tarot Consultant (CTC). If the
candidate
passes the examination, please immediately advise the Board the name
and mailing address of the person on whom you've conferred the rank
of CTC. The candidate will receive this rank as soon as he or she
has paid the required certification fee.
To confer the rank of CTC on any candidate you must be convinced
he or she qualifies for the rank of CPTR and has done the required
projects for the CTC rank. All articles must be publishable in both
content and quality. You must be convinced the candidate wrote the
papers you're evaluating. The work must be original and not previously
published by another person.
Please encourage your candidate to publish his or her work in one of
the more-widely read tarot papers, newletters or journals. The
Board has approved several
publications
expressly for this purpose.
If you're certified as a Certified Tarot Grandmaster (CTGM), you may
evaluate and pass or fail any candidate for the rank of Certified
Tarot Master (CTM). If the candidate
passes the examination, please immediately advise the Board the name
and mailing address of the person on whom you've conferred the rank
of CTM. The candidate will receive this rank as soon as he or she
has paid the required certification fee.
To confer the rank of CTM on any candidate you must be convinced
he or she qualifies for the rank of CTC and has done the required
projects for the CTM rank. All articles must be publishable in both
content and quality. You must be convinced the candidate wrote the
papers you're evaluating. The work must be original and not previously
published by another person.
Please encourage your candidate to publish his or her work in one of
the more-widely read tarot papers, newletters or journals. The
Board has approved several
publications
expressly for this purpose.
The ranks of Certified Tarot Instructor and Certified Tarot
Grandmaster are conferred only by the
Tarot Certification Board
and then only upon those persons who petition the Board for consideration
of either rank.
Additional suggestions for evaluators are given on each of the
certification tests. These may be found at
exams.html
here on this web site.
The Tarot Certification Board previously published additional
quidelines for evaluating tarot readers in the TCB News. Copies
of these newsletters may be found in our archive:
The Tarot Institute recently published a short course on evaluating
tarot readers which any person holding the rank of CTR or higher
may order at no cost.
If you need any assistance in evaluating any candidate for any rank,
please contact our offices:
You may download the bylaws of the Tarot Certification Board as a:
You may download the Articles of Incorporation of the Tarot
Certification Board as a:
Word document
or as a text file