Texas Journeyman Electrician Practice Test, Free

The clock that matters right now

If you have a test date on or after that day, the book you sit with is the 2026 edition. Every calculation you learned still works. What changed is where the rules live, and under a timed open book paper that is the expensive kind of change.

What people come here for

The topics people open most before a sitting, and what each one settles.

• Texas Journeyman Electrician Exam - Format and Pass Score

  Two portions scored separately at 70 percent: 56 scored knowledge items in 130 minutes, 24 scored calculations in 110.

• Grounding Electrodes NEC 250.52 - What You Have to Use

  What qualifies as an electrode under 250.52, how 250.53 installs it, and what the 25 ohm sentence really says.

• Agricultural Buildings: What Article 547 Reaches

  The equipotential plane, what it bonds to, and the distribution point, checked against the 2026 book.

• Wet, Damp and Dry: The Classification Comes First

  The code calls wet a great many places a tradesman would call damp. The dividing line, and the traps.

• Hazardous Locations: Class, Division, Group, In That Order

  Class says what the hazard is, division says how often it is there, group says which material.

• Equipment Grounding Conductor Sizing - Table 250.122

  Sized from the overcurrent device ahead of the circuit, capped by the circuit conductors, different again in parallel raceways.

• Parallel Conductors: What Has to Match, and Why It Matters

  The 1/0 AWG floor, the properties every conductor of a set has to share, and why an unequal set leaves one running unprotected.

• Multiwire Branch Circuits NEC Article 210 - Shared Neutral

  Why the ungrounded conductors come off different phases, why they open together, and what an open neutral does to two loads.

• Receptacle Spacing NEC 210.52 - Six Foot Rule, 2026 Change

  How 210.52 actually measures the six foot rule, and what counts as wall space after the 2026 change.

• Expansion Fittings: What Puts One in the Run

  The PVC trigger is a quarter inch of calculated length change, not a run length in feet.

• Required Dwelling Branch Circuits - NEC 210.11 Rules

  The four branch circuits 210.11(C) puts in every dwelling, and the restriction attached to each of them.

• Where the Neutral and Ground Bond, and Why Only Once

  Bonded at the service, separated everywhere downstream, and reset by a transformer.

• GFCI and AFCI Requirements Texas Exam - 2026 Amendment

  The 2026 ampere ceilings differ by subsection, and Texas keeps Exception No. 2 alive after the national sunset.

• Health Care Facilities: Two Grounding Paths, Not One

  NEC 517.13 wants a metal raceway or cable armor that qualifies, plus an insulated copper one. Two paths, both live.

• NEC Practice Questions by Topic - 1,350 Free, With Answers

  54 topics, 25 original questions each, every answer cited to the 2026 NEC, free.

Hands-on labs: bend it, wire it, fill it

Four pages you work rather than read. You drag something, turn something or connect something, and the page answers with the number it changed and the section that governs it. All four are free, and none of them asks for an account.

• Conduit Bending Simulator - Offsets, Saddles and 90s

  Drag the rise and turn the angle dial, and the multiplier, the shrink, the take up and every mark move with it.

• 3-Way and 4-Way Switch Wiring Lab - Drag the Wires

  Drag conductor ends onto terminals, flip the switches, and a checker names the 2026 NEC section behind each fault.

• Box Fill Lab - Drop Conductors in a Box and Watch It Fill

  Drag conductors, grounds, a device yoke, clamps and fittings into a drawn box and watch it fill.

• Grounding Electrode System Lab - Build It and Size the GEC

  Drag electrodes into the ground, bond them into one system, and size the conductor from Table 250.66 and its ceilings.

Open the labs

What the numbers say

TDLR publishes exam statistics every fiscal year. In fiscal 2025, 26,303 attempts across every Texas electrical exam produced 6,181 passes. That is a 23.5 percent pass rate, down from 26.4 percent the year before.

On journeyman calculations specifically, 6,328 people sat and 5,027 failed.

The agency says it out loud too. In the rule it adopted in June 2026 to open a faster route into the trade, TDLR wrote that "historically, the first-time passage rate for the journeyman electrical examination has been less than 30 percent", and gave the shortage of journeymen that produces as the reason for the rule. That is the licensing authority describing its own exam, published in the Texas Register.

The exam is two tests now, scored separately. You can pass one half and fail the other, and the two halves fail for completely different reasons.

You may be able to sit it sooner than you think

Since 1 July 2026 there are two ways to reach the journeyman chair rather than one. 16 TAC 73.21(b) now opens the examination at seven thousand hours of on-the-job training, or on completion of an approved accelerated program. The license itself still needs the full eight thousand hours that the statute sets, so this moves the exam earlier, not the license.

If you are somewhere north of seven thousand hours and were counting on eight, that is a year of waiting that may not apply to you any more.

Start here

• Not sat it yetHow the exam is structured and timed

  Two portions, scored separately, failing for different reasons.

• Just failedRead your score report before you rebook

  It names the half you lost and roughly where. Most people rebook without looking.

• Studying nowExam wording mapped onto code locations

  The exam does not use the code book wording. This maps one onto the other.

How it works

1. Sit thirty questions against the clock. The practice exam is timed and mixed to the published blueprint. Thirty questions are free, they run with no account and no network, and every miss comes back with the arithmetic worked out and the section named.
2. Work the area you lost. The score report names the area you're weakest in. Practice questions by topic holds 54 topics with 25 questions each, free, every answer cited to the 2026 NEC.
3. Open the bank when the free set runs out. $79 once opens the other 470 questions and the seven remaining rungs of the calculation ladder. One payment, no subscription, no account, and no email address on file with us.

Practice against a clock, no account

Almost all of it is free and none of it has an account behind it. The diagnostic, the drill, the drawn scenes, the daily question, the ampacity sprint, the field calculators, the method calculators and the sorter cost nothing. The timed paper and the calculation ladder share the one price on this site: thirty questions and the first rung are free, the rest open together for $79.

• Timed drillWhere does it live?

  A question appears in exam wording. You name the article. Scored in seconds, because seconds are what you actually run out of.

• Timed paperMixed to the published blueprint and clocked

  Weighted toward calculations the way the real paper is. Answers withheld until you submit, then every miss worked through. Thirty questions free, 500 in the full bank for $79.

• DailyOne question a day, with a streak

  The same question for everyone that morning, the worked answer after you pick, and a share line. Two minutes, every day, adds up to the habit the exam rewards.

• GameAmpacity sprint

  Ten Table 310.16 prompts against the clock. Trains your eye to land on the right row and column fast, which is the whole of the table half of the paper.

• Field calculatorsVoltage drop, conduit fill, box fill

  The tables are built in, the answer is shown with every step, and the method under it is the exam method. Conduit fill and box fill have their own pages.

• LadderEight rungs of calculation

  Box fill to tap rules, ten problems a rung, the working shown after every answer. Rung one free; the rest come with the question bank.

The drill exists because of one number. TDLR reported a 23.5 percent pass rate for fiscal 2025 on an open book examination. The answers were in the room. What ran out was the time spent deciding where to look.

The question bank, and what seventy nine dollars is for

500 questions. 30 are free inside the practice page and work with no network and no payment. The other 470 arrive together for $79, once. Access does not expire and every question added later is included.

• Every question carries the arithmetic worked out rather than an answer letter: which factor applies before which, where the value came from, and why the final figure rounds the way it does.
• 534 lines explaining wrong options, one for every wrong option in the bank. Each names the specific error that produces exactly that number, because a wrong answer nobody would actually reach teaches nothing.
• 83 questions from the calculation areas and 95 from the knowledge areas, across 8 content areas and four difficulty bands.
• No code table is reprinted anywhere in it. Where a question needs a value out of the book, the value is given as data and the question tests what you do with it.

One payment. No subscription, no account, no password, and no mailing list, so there is no address here for anybody to lose. Stripe takes the payment and sends the receipt, and what comes back to the browser is a token saying a payment happened and nothing else.

If it is not what this page says it is, write through the contact page inside ninety days, quote the Stripe receipt, and the money goes back to the card. No reason needed. What is already loaded stays on your machine, because there is no account to close and no way for us to reach in and take it back.

It is worth saying what it will not do. It will not predict your result, none of the questions came off a real paper, and nobody can promise you a pass on the strength of a question bank. What it does is put the failure in front of you at a desk rather than at the testing center, with the reason attached.

And it is one bank for both licenses. The master paper is a knowledge portion and a calculations portion too, sat against the same book, so the 500 questions are the ones to come back to in two years. What the bank is not is master-weighted, because the blueprint with published item counts behind it is the journeyman one.

The calculations, worked the way the exam wants

Every calculation page here teaches the method and names the table. None of them print the table. You look the value up in your own book, which is what the exam expects you to do anyway.

Conduit fill. Ampacity and derating. Termination temperature. Box fill. Motor circuits. Grounding electrode sizing. Voltage drop. Small conductor limits.

Each one is written around where the points actually go, which is usually a step people skip rather than arithmetic they get wrong.

Why you should believe any of this

• Every rule on this site carries the section it came from. Not a summary of a summary, the actual number, so you can go and read it.
• When we get something wrong we log it in public with the date, what was wrong, and what it says now. There are entries in that log already, and they were found by us checking our own published pages against the code rather than by a reader complaining.
• We publish no pass rate of our own. We couldn't source one, so there isn't one here.
• No page here reprints a code table. Questions supply the looked-up value as given data and test the method, which is the part people actually lose marks on, and it means you practice the way the exam works: with your own book open.
• Diagrams are drawn here, by hand, for these pages, because the rules that are about space and distance are hard to hold in prose alone.

Built on the 2026 code, which matters right now

Texas adopts the 2026 National Electrical Code effective September 1, 2026 (16 TAC 73.100).

Article 220 is now Article 120. The general lighting figure did not change and did not stay the same, it split. Several sites selling Texas prep still cite the old article numbers.

What this page cites

• 16 TAC 73.100 Texas adoption of the 2026 National Electrical Code.
• 16 TAC 73.21(b) Examination eligibility at seven thousand hours or on completion of an approved program, effective 1 July 2026.
• 51 TexReg, adopted rules of 26 June 2026, TRD-202602382 The preamble in which TDLR states the historic first-time pass rate.
• TDLR examination statistics, fiscal year 2025 Attempts, passes and pass rates by examination.