Sixty terms defined in Article 100 of the 2026 code, one at a time. The term is on the front, a plain language explanation and the section where the term does its work are on the back, and anything you miss comes back before the round ends.
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The full deck runs every term you have not mastered yet, and puts a missed card back in front of you before the round is over. The sprint deals twenty cards and starts a clock, and it keeps a record time only when all twenty were known on the first look.
Reset deck wipes the mastered list and the sprint record from this browser and deals all sixty again.
Definition questions look free and are not. The word decides which rule you are in, so a question that turns on whether a load is continuous or whether a room counts as a bathroom is really a calculation question wearing a disguise.
Run the deck until the front of a card produces the back before you turn it over. Then take those same terms into the practice exam and see how many questions were definition questions all along.
Read the term, say the meaning out loud, then turn the card. Saying it out loud matters, because recognizing an explanation you are shown is far easier than producing one, and the exam asks you to produce.
Mark it knew it only if what you said matched. Half credit is what puts people in the room with a shaky vocabulary, and the queue is built to punish it in the cheapest way possible: a card you miss comes back two cards later, and if you miss it again it comes back five cards later.
Miss the same card a third time and it leaves the round. At that point you are not recalling it, you are guessing, and the fix is to look the term up in your own code book and read the section named on the back of the card rather than to keep flipping.
Cards you knew on the first look are stored in this browser as mastered and are dealt out of later rounds, so the deck shrinks toward the terms that are still costing you. Reset deck puts all sixty back.
Every card names a section where the term does real work. That pointer is the part worth carrying into the exam room, because the exam hands you the code book and the job is to land on the right page fast.
The front says Continuous Load. Before turning it over, the answer you want in your mouth is a load that runs at its maximum for three hours or more, which is why store lighting counts and a toaster does not.
The back adds the pointer: 210.20. That is the section where continuous load stops being vocabulary and starts costing you arithmetic, because the branch circuit overcurrent device has to be sized to the noncontinuous load plus 125 percent of the continuous load.
That is the whole loop. The term tells you which rule you are in, the section tells you where the numbers live, and the code book in your lap does the rest.
Every term in this deck was checked against Article 100 of the 2026 National Electrical Code before it went on a card, and the section named on each back was checked in the same book. The wording on the backs is ours, written the way one electrician explains a term to another. The definitions themselves belong to NFPA and are not printed here, so bring your own copy of the 2026 code, which the exam requires anyway, and read the entry there.
Because a definition question is the cheapest question the writers can set, and because half the calculation questions turn on one word. A load is only continuous if it runs at its maximum for three hours or more, and a room is only a bathroom if a basin shares it with a toilet, a tub or a shower. Get the word wrong and the arithmetic that follows cannot be right.
No, and this page does not print the book's wording. You are allowed to bring the code book into the exam, so what pays is knowing which term a question is leaning on and being able to find it fast. The backs of these cards are written the way a journeyman would explain the term to an apprentice, not the way the book states it.
A card you miss comes back two cards later. Miss it again and it comes back five cards later. Miss it a third time and it leaves the round, because at that point you are guessing rather than recalling and the term belongs on your read again list. Cards you knew on the first look are stored as mastered and skipped next time until you reset the deck.
It is a clock on twenty cards drawn from the same sixty, so you can measure recall speed rather than just recall. The record time is only kept when every one of the twenty was known on the first look, so a fast round of guessing does not set a record. The clock is there for you to beat your own last run, so compare a sprint against the time this browser already has stored rather than against anybody else.
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