Gold Seal Superintendent study plan

Construct a 40-activity precedence diagram from a written building scope and identify the critical path using forward and backward pass calculations.

Compute total float and free float for every activity in that network and rank the ten activities with the largest float.

Convert the network into a time-scaled schedule with a two-trade labor histogram, then level one resource peak and document what logic you changed.

Write a comparison of crashing versus fast-tracking to recover 10 percent of duration, stating the cost, risk, and quality consequences of each option.

Produce a three-week look-ahead plan from your Week 1 schedule and mark each activity as make-ready, constrained, or at risk with the blocking reason named.

Perform a quantity takeoff for concrete, formwork, and reinforcing steel using only a written scope description and stated dimensions.

Assemble a bottom-up estimate covering labor, material, equipment, and indirect costs, then add contingency with a written justification for the percentage chosen.

Reconcile your bottom-up total against a top-down square-foot estimate and explain each variance line in writing.

Compute PV, EV, AC, CV, SV, CPI, SPI, EAC, and ETC for a five-period cost report and interpret what each trend signals about the project's trajectory.

Prepare a schedule of values and a monthly progress payment application, calculating retainage at two different rates and accounting for stored materials.

Analyze a unit-price change order and calculate the cost effect of a documented productivity loss on the estimate.

Identify the eight most common estimating errors and specify the pre-bid review step that catches each one.

Build a risk-allocation matrix comparing design-bid-build, design-build, and construction-manager-at-risk delivery, naming which party carries design, schedule, cost, and site-condition risk in each.

Draft a request for information and a notice of change that cite the specific contract clause and preserve both time and cost rights.

Analyze three fact patterns to determine whether a valid contract exists, whether breach occurred, and whether substantial performance or waiver applies.

Write a delay narrative that separates excusable-compensable, excusable-non-compensable, and non-excusable delay, and quantify concurrent overlap.

Trace a claim from notice through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation, listing the deadline and required document at each stage.

Build job hazard analyses for fall exposure, excavation, and crane lifts, ranking each control by the hierarchy of controls.

Map the competent-person roles, inspection frequencies, recordkeeping duties, and incident-reporting timelines that apply to your project types.

Assemble a risk register scoring fifteen risks on probability and impact, each with a named owner and a mitigation action.

Write inspection and test plans for three definable features of work, each specifying hold points, witness points, acceptance criteria, and the record produced.

Distinguish quality assurance from quality control and design the QA/QC reporting structure, including who signs off at each gate.

Apply 5-why and fishbone analysis to three nonconformance scenarios and specify the corrective and preventive action for each.

Calculate the cost of poor quality for a rework event, including labor, material, schedule impact, and inspection burden, then propose prevention measures with an estimated payback.

Draft a project communication plan that names the audience, channel, frequency, and owner for eight recurring report types.

Script two difficult conversations, one about a repeated safety violation and one about persistent quality failures, using a structured feedback model with observable behavior, impact, and request.

Build a staffing and succession plan with a RACI matrix for a twelve-person site team, resolving any role with double accountability.

Self-assess against six leadership competencies, then write three dated improvement actions targeting your weakest areas.

Deliver a ten-minute mock project status briefing on schedule, cost, risk, and quality using only the deliverables you produced in Weeks 1 through 7.

Complete 120 timed practice questions across all six domains and log every miss with its root cause and the domain it belongs to.

Re-drill the two domains with the lowest practice scores until each reaches 85 percent on a twenty-question retest.

Assemble and memorize a one-page formula sheet covering float, earned value, retainage, contingency, and productivity, then reproduce it from memory without notes.