Free practice questions for the Texas Journeyman Electrician exam — PSI's two-portion, open-book NEC test behind the TDLR journeyman license — with a written explanation on every answer, in English, Spanish, and Russian.
8 questions, about 6 minutes. No account needed — five theory and calculation problems of the kind the Calculations portion asks, plus three Texas license and job-site safety rules. Pick an answer to see whether it's right and read the explanation, the same explanations you get on every question in the full course.
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The full Texas Journeyman Electrician course is 500 questions in 5 blocks — three NEC Knowledge blocks and two Calculations blocks, weighted to PSI's two outlines. Calculations get 200 of the 500 questions, more than their share of the real exam, because each one drills a method on fresh numbers. The course is written against the 2026 NEC (NFPA 70) and cites it by section number without reproducing code text; circuit theory is stated formula-first with every constant in the question.
Exam structure, topics, who needs it and official resources.
The Journeyman Electrician exam is the test behind the Texas journeyman electrician license, which TDLR issues under Occupations Code chapter 1305; PSI gives the exam. The current bulletin (Updated 9/15/2026) splits it into two portions — NEC Knowledge, 56 scored questions in 130 minutes, and Calculations, 24 scored questions in 110 minutes, plus 5 non-scored items between them — with 70% to pass each, open book with the 2026 NEC, a $78 fee for both, in English or Spanish. Practice it in the free sample above: no sign-up, with a written explanation on every question.
Texas Occupations Code §1305.151 bars anyone from performing or offering to perform electrical work without an appropriate license issued or recognized under chapter 1305, unless an exemption in §1305.003 applies. Most electricians start as apprentices — §1305.161 sets the minimum age at 16 and has the apprentice learning and assisting under a licensed master electrician — and the journeyman license is the next step: §1305.155 requires 8,000 or more hours of on-the-job training supervised by a master electrician and a passing score on this exam. A master electrician is the one who verifies those hours (§1305.153(b)(3)). The journeyman license is also the way to the top license: a master electrician applicant needs 12,000 hours under a master and at least two years holding a journeyman license (§1305.153(a)).
PSI's bulletin (Updated 9/15/2026) gives the journeyman exam as two separate multiple-choice portions, each passed on its own at 70%. NEC Knowledge is 59 items — 56 scored and 3 non-scored — in 130 minutes, weighted most heavily to Branch Circuits and Conductors, Wiring Methods and Materials, and Equipment and Devices (10 scored items each), then Services and Separately Derived Systems and Special Occupancies (6 each). Calculations is 26 items — 24 scored and 2 non-scored — in 110 minutes: service and feeder load calculations, branch-circuit and conductor math, transformers, motors, special occupancies, EV chargers and photovoltaics, and 2 items of electrical theory. Time does not carry over from one portion to the other, so finishing NEC Knowledge early buys nothing on Calculations. The fee is $78 for both portions, and a retake also costs $78. Neither outline includes Texas law — the exam tests the code and the arithmetic.
From September 1, 2026 the questions are referenced to the 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code, and the NEC is the only book allowed in the room — the NEC Handbook is not. Bring your own soft-bound copy: it may be highlighted, underlined and annotated before the session and tabbed only with permanent tabs made or supplied by the NEC publisher, and it may not be marked during the exam. Loose-leaf, spiral-bound and ring-bound copies are not allowed, and neither are homemade tabs or loose paper. Tab from a 2026 book rather than an older one — the exam is referenced to that edition, and section numbers can move between editions. Electronic notepads are provided, and a silent, non-programmable, battery-operated calculator without paper tape or an alphabet keyboard is allowed.
The bulletin's reference page adds two instructions that apply to every question. First, ignore code exceptions and optional calculation methods unless a question tells you to use one — the key follows the general rule and the standard method. Second, unless a question specifically says otherwise, every conductor is copper. Forgetting either rule produces a different number than the key: an exception applied out of habit or an aluminum value used where the question never named aluminum. The free sample's voltage-drop question shows the other side — it names aluminum, so aluminum's constant is the one to use.
You apply to TDLR with a complete application, documentation and fees (16 TAC §73.21(a)); once TDLR approves your eligibility you receive an email with scheduling instructions, and you book online at test-takers.psiexams.com/tdlnrp or by phone at (833) 333-4741. PSI tests by computer at sites across Texas, including Abilene, Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Harlingen, Houston, Lubbock, McAllen, Midland, San Antonio, Tyler and Waco. Arrive 30 minutes early with one valid government-issued photo ID whose details match your TDLR record; cancel or reschedule at least 2 days ahead or the fee is forfeited. A tutorial of up to 15 minutes runs before the exam clock starts. Your score appears on screen at the end, with a diagnostic report of strengths and weaknesses if you do not pass — and you have one year from the date TDLR received your application to meet every requirement, including passing.
The exam does not test OSHA or Texas law, but a journeyman works under both. On construction sites OSHA's electrical standard, 29 CFR 1926 Subpart K, sets the work practices: an employee who could contact a circuit must be protected by de-energizing and grounding it or by guarding it (1926.416(a)(1)); a fuse changed while a terminal is still energized is handled with special insulated tools (1926.416(d)); and de-energized equipment is made inoperative and tagged at every point it could be energized from (1926.417(b)). Once licensed, you renew every year (Occupations Code §1305.167) and complete four hours of continuing education for each renewal covering the NEC, Texas electrician law and rules, and NFPA 70E safety (16 TAC §73.25); a late renewal leaves a gap in which licensed electrical work may not be done (16 TAC §73.23(d)). For the OSHA side in depth, the free OSHA construction safety practice test covers it.
The full LICENA Texas Journeyman Electrician course is 500 questions in five blocks: three NEC Knowledge blocks (Definitions, Services, Grounding & Feeders · Branch Circuits, Conductors & Wiring Methods · Equipment, Motors, Special Occupancies & Renewables) and two Calculations blocks (theory, ampacity, fill, voltage drop and equipment circuits · loads, grounding and neutral sizing, transformers, motors and special systems). At 30 questions a day that is under three weeks: one pass to find the gaps, a second on the areas you missed, then the timed final in the real format — 56 questions in 130 minutes, then 24 in 110 minutes, 70% on each. Work the calculation blocks with a calculator and your own NEC open beside you, the way the exam is taken, and look up every table a question names instead of trusting memory.
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