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Daily NEC Code Question

One question a day from the 2026 National Electrical Code, the same question for every reader on the same date. Answer it, read why, and keep the streak going. The bank holds 120 original questions spread across the eight content areas the Texas exam is built on.

How to use it

Five minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. The point of a daily item is not the one question, it is the habit of opening the code book and finding a section under mild time pressure.

Every question names the section it comes from. Look that section up in your own book before you read the explanation, and the day is worth four times as much.

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How the day is picked

The bank is a fixed list of 120 questions in a fixed order. The page counts whole days from 1 September 2026, divides that count by 120 and takes the remainder. That remainder is the question, so the arithmetic gives the same item to everyone reading on the same date with no server involved.

After 120 days the list comes round again. By then the questions you found hard the first time are the ones worth meeting a second time, which is the argument for a fixed order over a random draw.

Progress lives in your browser under a key starting with txee. and nowhere else. A private window, a cleared cache or a different device starts you at zero, and the question of the day is unaffected either way.

The eight content areas

These are the areas the diagnostic on this site scores, and the bank is spread evenly across them. Fifteen questions apiece.

Question bank by content area, 120 questions written for this page against the 2026 edition.
Content areaQuestions
Conductor sizing and derating15
Raceway and box fill15
Load calculations15
Motor circuits15
Electrical theory15
Grounding and bonding15
Installation requirements15
Licensing, code editions and administration15

Where the numbers come from

Every section number, table number and figure on this page was checked against the text of the 2026 National Electrical Code before the question was written. A citation that could not be found in that text did not go on the page.

Several sections moved for 2026, and the questions lean on that on purpose. Load calculations left Article 220 for Article 120. The underground cover table is now Table 300.7(A) and free conductor length is now 300.16. Transformer overcurrent protection moved from 450.3 to 450.5. Working from a 2023 book on those items will send you to the wrong page.

The rules are restated in plain words rather than quoted. Read them here, then read the section itself, because the exam is open book and the skill being tested is finding the rule rather than remembering this page.

Questions people ask

Is the daily question the same for everyone?

It is. The question is picked from the bank by the calendar date, so every reader who opens the page on a given day gets the same item. Nothing is drawn at random and nothing is sent to a server, which is why the page keeps working with no network.

Which code edition are the questions written against?

The 2026 National Electrical Code. Every section number on this page was checked against the text of that edition before the question was written. Several of them moved in 2026, so a 2023 book will send you to the wrong place on the load calculation and Article 300 items.

How does the streak work?

Answering on a calendar day adds one to the streak. Miss a day and the streak starts again at one the next time you answer. The longest streak and the number of days played are kept alongside it, and all three live in your own browser.

What happens if I get it wrong?

The explanation appears either way, along with the section the rule comes from and a link to the study page that covers it. A wrong answer still counts as a day played, because showing up daily is the habit the streak is measuring.

Can I go back and do yesterday's question?

Yes. The link under the question loads yesterday's item so you can read it and its explanation. Answering it does not change the streak, since the streak counts the days you turned up rather than the questions you have finished.

Do the questions come from a real exam?

No. They were written for this page, one at a time, from the code text. They are the same shape as the items on the Texas journeyman and master exams and cover the same eight content areas, but no question here is copied from any exam.

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