Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2085 - Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners
Chapter 8 - Cosmetology Instructors and Instructor Trainees
Section 20 CSR 2085-8.030 - Qualifications for Instructor Examination

(1) Because state law requires an instructor trainee to have completed a minimum of six hundred (600) hours of instructor training before he/she will be allowed to take the examination, no instructor trainee will be scheduled to take the examination, except upon satisfactorily showing that the training requirements have been completed or that the person has been licensed three (3) or more years as a cosmetologist, manicurist, or esthetician. Instructor trainees who have been licensed three (3) or more years as a cosmetologist, manicurist, or esthetician that choose to complete additional instructor training may substitute three (3) years of experience for three hundred (300) hours of instructor training.

(2) For purposes of meeting the minimum standards necessary to sit for the examination, training completed by an instructor trainee shall be recognized by the board for a period of no more than five (5) years from the date it is received.

(3) In order to be scheduled for the instructor examination, a properly completed application must be received by the test administrator's office, along with the required fee, no less than fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the scheduled examination the applicant desires to take. Applications received after this cut-off date, and all applications received after every available space for the examination has been filled, whether that application was received prior to or after this cut-off date, shall be scheduled for the next regularly scheduled examination.

(4) Application for examination shall be made on a form provided by the test administrator. The form shall be properly completed and shall be accompanied by the following:

(5) The minimum passing examination scores required for licensure as an instructor are seventy-five (75) for the written examination and seventy-five (75) for the oral examination.