Texas Electrician ExamTexas journeyman & master

Find your two weakest areas in 24 questions

Three questions in each of the eight content areas. At the end every area is scored and ordered worst first, the two weakest are named, and each one gets the page on this site that covers it. Nothing leaves your browser.

What it does

24 questions, no clock, and you can stop and lose nothing except the run. Have your code book to hand. Every question supplies whatever value you would have looked up, so what is being scored is the method rather than your index tabs.

The result is stored in this browser only. There is no account, no email address is asked for, and nothing is sent anywhere. Come back and your last run is still on the page.

How much three questions can tell you

Three items to an area is enough to rank the eight areas against each other and not enough to grade any one of them. An area you genuinely know 70 percent of comes back at one right out of three, or none, about one run in five, on the draw alone. Read the order first and the number second.

The overall figure carries roughly 9 points of sampling error on 24 items, so treat 65 and 74 as the same result.

What it is not

It is not a prediction of your exam result and it is not scored the way you will be scored. The Texas journeyman exam is two portions passed separately at 70 percent each, 80 scored items between them, drawn from a subject blueprint PSI publishes. This is 24 questions written for this site and arranged three to an area so that the areas can be compared.

It is not weighted like the exam either, and that is the point of it. 15 of these 24 items sit in the calculation areas. On the real journeyman paper 24 of the 80 scored items are calculations. Equal weight per area is what makes the comparison between areas fair, and it is also what stops the overall figure from standing in for an exam score.

The line across each meter marks 70 percent, which is what each portion of the real exam is passed at. It is there so an area is read against something. It is not a verdict on these 24 questions.

The eight content areas, and where each one is covered

Conductor sizing and derating

The marks go on the order of operations rather than the lookup. Correction and adjustment both apply and they multiply, and a termination rating can cap a figure you worked out correctly.

Ampacity derating Termination temperature The derating calculator

Raceway and box fill

Box fill and conduit fill are counting exercises wrapped around rules about what counts as what. Most losses are in the count, not the arithmetic.

Box fill Conduit fill The fill calculators

Load calculations

A load calculation is long, and a long calculation fails at the step you skipped rather than the step you got wrong. Work the same sequence every time until it is boring.

Continuous loads Feeders Power and volt-amperes

Motor circuits

Motor circuits pull from different tables for different jobs, and the overload device and the short-circuit device are sized by different rules from different starting numbers.

Motor calculations Overload against short circuit Motor feeders

Electrical theory

Theory is quick marks when the formula is automatic and slow marks when it is not. These are the items to be fast on so the long ones get the minutes.

Ohm's law Series and parallel The power wheel

Grounding and bonding

The most confused pair of ideas in the trade, and the questions are written knowing that. Get the two words separated first and a lot of items answer themselves.

Grounding against bonding Sizing the equipment grounding conductor Sort 24 items into grounding or bonding

Installation requirements

The broadest area on the paper, and it is won on knowing which article governs before you start reading. Search time is what runs out here.

Wiring methods Working space Twelve drawn scenes, one thing wrong in each

Licensing, code editions and administration

Which edition applies, what a license permits, and how the examination itself is run. Cheap marks that people skip revising because they feel like trivia.

The 2026 edition change How the exam is built The article location drill