The license most working electricians sit first. Practice centers on finding answers in the code book, working the calculations, and the theory behind them, for the code edition your board uses.
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Prepare for the exam you will actually sit.Code, calculations and your state's rules.
CARE Electrician is being built around each licensing exam's real structure: finding answers in the code book under time pressure, getting the calculations right, and practicing on the code edition your board uses.
Find your exam
Nothing to buy or practice yet. The demos on this page are working previews of the study tools, not exam content.
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Find your exam
Start with the license you are sitting for.
Journeyman and master come first, then residential and the specialty licenses. Each exam is built from what its board actually administers, not an average of fifty states.
Builds on journeyman material with heavier load calculations and closer code interpretation. Exact scope is set by each board, so each master exam gets its own verified outline.
Some states license residential wiring separately. Texas, for example, lists a Residential Wireman exam. We add these as each state's exam facts are read from the board's own publications.
Electrical contractor (including the NASCLA accredited exam), maintenance, low-voltage, fire alarm, sign, lineman, administrator and inspector exams. Browse every exam CARE has recorded, by state, type and provider, with how well each is verified.
The real skill is not memorizing the code. It is knowing where to look, and doing the math right.
What the exam really asks
Prep that only teaches the code misses what the exam tests: how you use it.
Know where to look, and how fast
Many electrician exams are open book: you bring your own code book and tab it. That does not make them easy. The clock is running, and the candidate who knows where to look finishes. Practice should measure the time to find an answer, not just whether you got it. Where an exam is closed book, the same practice builds recall.
Two skills, tested together
Some boards now separate them. Texas's journeyman exam, for example, has a knowledge portion and a calculations portion, in effect since March 11, 2025. CARE trains lookup and arithmetic as separate skills so you can see which one is costing you points.
Source: Texas TDLR exam page ↗A code book that keeps changing
The 2026 National Electrical Code was published in August 2025, while many boards still examine on 2020 or 2023. Practicing from the wrong edition teaches the wrong answers, so every CARE question is tied to a code edition and a board.
Source: EC&M on 2026 NEC adoption ↗
Plan reading · interactive preview
Study from the drawing, the way the work is done.
Trade questions come with plans, schedules and exhibits. Tap a symbol on this sample dwelling plan to see how it connects to the code book. Plan-reading practice is planned for the full product.
Every license starts on a job site. The code book is the common language.
Code Book Mode · interactive preview
Practice the lookup, not just the answer.
Each round gives you a job-site scenario and starts the clock. Pick the chapter, then the article. This is the skill that decides whether you finish an exam where you bring your own code book. The full trainer will track your time per topic and point you at the sections you keep missing.
Round 1 / 40.0s
Scenario
You need the rules for grounding and bonding a service.
Where would you look first?
Choose a chapter
Read the scenario, then start the clock. The chapter list appears when the timer starts.
Illustrative demo. Scenarios are written by CARE for this page, are not exam questions, and article names are short descriptions, not code text. Real practice will follow the code edition your board adopts.
Calculation Workbench · interactive preview
See every step. Catch the slip that costs the point.
Change the job, work the problem yourself, then compare with the full solution. The finished workbench will check each step you take and name the habit behind a wrong answer.
Worked solution
- 1Formula VD = (2 × K × I × L) ÷ CM
- 2Values K = 12.9, I = 20 A, L = 120 ft, CM = 10,380
- 3Numerator 2 × 12.9 × 20 × 120 = 61,920
- 4Voltage drop 5.97 V
- 5Percent of source 4.97%
Above the common 3% branch-circuit design target.
A 6 AWG copper conductor would bring this job within 3%.
The 3% figure is a design guideline given in informational notes of the code, not a mandatory rule. Actual exam questions follow the method and tables your board's code edition and bulletin specify.
Illustrative demo using a simplified copper model. It is not exam content and not for designing real circuits.
How CARE teaches · planned
Every miss becomes a plan.
The learning engine behind CARE Real Estate, CPA and Bar will drive this product too, adapted to code-book work. Here is the loop it runs after you get something wrong.
Step 1 of 5
A miss is recorded with its reason
Not just wrong. Wrong because the wrong article, the wrong table, an arithmetic slip, or a misread edition. The reason decides what happens next.
What your progress will actually say
CARE reports evidence states for each topic, not an invented pass percentage. No honest model can promise a pass probability without real exam outcomes behind it, so CARE will not show one.
You have not seen this topic. It is not a weakness.
Exams · built around the real thing
Your board's exam, not an average of fifty.
CARE starts from what each licensing authority actually administers: vendor, code edition, parts, open-book rules. Practice is then built to match. Journeyman and master electrician exams come first, then electrical contractor.
- Exam vendor
- PSI
- Verified
- Passing score
- 70% or better
- Verified
- Open book
- Yes. Bring your own NEC. Soft-bound editions are allowed; loose-leaf, spiral-bound and ring-bound copies are not.
- Verified
- Code edition
- The TDLR page lists the 2026 NEC. Some prep sellers still show 2023. CARE will follow the board's current bulletin.
- Verified
- Journeyman structure
- Two parts, knowledge and calculations, since March 11, 2025
- Verified
- Question counts and times
- Set per exam in the candidate bulletin. CARE will publish them after reading the bulletin.
- Pending
Last checked October 25, 2026. Always confirm with your board and the current candidate bulletin.Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, electrician exams ↗
A study tool should respect how the exam, and the trade, really work.
Why CARE
Four promises we hold ourselves to.
Tied to your code edition
Every question names the code edition and the board it was written for. When your state adopts a new edition, the affected questions are flagged and re-verified, not quietly left behind.
Sourced and checkable
Questions cite the article and section they test and the date they were last verified. CARE writes its own questions and does not reproduce code text without permission.
Honest about readiness
No invented pass percentage. CARE shows what you have covered, what the evidence says is weak, and what is due for review.
Built on a proven platform
CARE already runs exam preparation for real estate, insurance and securities, nursing, CPA, the bar exam and driver licensing. Electrician inherits that platform's grading, security and study engine.
Where things stand
Built in the open, launched when it is right.
CARE Electrician is in development. There is nothing to buy and no question bank to practice yet. We would rather launch late than launch with answers we have not verified.
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- Available now
- This preview and its interactive previews of the study tools
- Exam facts for a first set of states, read from the boards' own publications
- Being built
- Original, source-cited question bank for journeyman and master exams
- Code Book Mode trainer and the calculation workbench
- Timed mock exams that follow each exam's real structure
- Study plans and review scheduling from your results