Electrician Exam Guides

New Mexico Electrician License Guide: EE-98 Exam, NEC Edition & Reference Rules
Home › Electrician Exam Guides by State › New Mexico New Mexico Electrician License Guide: EE-98 Exam, NEC Edition & Reference Rules (2026) New Mexico's electrical exams are administered by PSI under contract with the Construction Industries Division (CID), and they run on the 2020 NEC — not the 2023 or 2026 edition some aggregator sites claim. The exam itself is split into three separate parts (commercial/industrial, residential, and specialties), and New Mexico explicitly bans a reference book most electricians reach for by habit. Here's exactly what the Candidate Information... Read more...
New Jersey Electrical Contractor License: Exam Requirements, Fees & NEC Edition
Home › Electrician Exam Guides by State › New Jersey New Jersey Electrical Contractor License: Exam Requirements, Fees & NEC Edition (2026 Guide) New Jersey doesn't license individual "journeyman" or "master" electricians the way most states do. There's exactly one license in New Jersey electrical work — the Electrical Contractor license — and it's earned by passing a three-part exam covering trade knowledge, alarm systems, and business law. Everyone else who touches electrical work in the state (journeymen, apprentices, and general wiremen) is registered or licensed under a separate, simpler... Read more...
New Hampshire Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Requirements: NEC 2020 Correction & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › New Hampshire Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Studying for the New Hampshire Journeyman or Master Electrician exam? Before you buy a codebook, get the edition right: despite some third-party sites claiming New Hampshire has moved to the 2023 NEC, the current exam is still built on the 2020 NEC. This guide covers exam format, eligibility, fees, and reference-material rules straight from Prov's current New Hampshire Electrician Candidate Information Bulletin. Last verified: September 5, 2026 — against Prov, Inc.'s State of New Hampshire Electrician Board Examinations Candidate... Read more...
Nevada Electrical Contractor (C-2) Exam Requirements: NEC Book, Application & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Nevada Electrical Contractor (C-2) Exam Nevada doesn't issue an individual "Journeyman Electrician" or "Master Electrician" license at the state level. What the state licenses is a business classification — the C-2 Electrical Contractor license, issued by the Nevada State Contractors' Board (NSCB) and tested through PSI. This guide covers exactly what the C-2 exam requires, corrects a stale claim floating around online about the 2026 NEC, and explains where individual credentials actually come from in Nevada. Last verified: September 5, 2026 — against PSI's State of... Read more...
Montana Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Requirements: Unmarked Code Book Rule & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Montana Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Planning to test for your Montana Journeyman, Master, or Residential Electrician license? Read the reference-material rule carefully before you buy anything: Montana's exam is open book, but your code book has to be completely unmarked — no highlighting, no underlining, no candidate-added tabs, at all. That's stricter than almost every other state we cover, and it changes which of our products actually belong in your exam bag. This guide covers eligibility, exam format, fees, and exactly what "unmarked" means, straight... Read more...
Missouri Electrical Contractor License Requirements: Optional Statewide License & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Missouri Electrical Contractor License Missouri doesn't run its own electrician exam, and it doesn't require a statewide license at all. Most Missouri electricians are licensed locally — by their city or county. But since 2019, the state has also offered an optional statewide Electrical Contractor license through the Office of Statewide Electrical Contractors (OSEC), which recognizes passing scores from five different national testing vendors instead of running one exam of its own. This guide explains exactly how that works, what it costs, and why we can't... Read more...
Mississippi Electrical Contractor License Exam Requirements: NEC Book, Application & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Mississippi Electrical Contractor License Exam Looking for a Mississippi "Journeyman Electrician license"? Mississippi doesn't issue one at the state level. Electrical work above a certain dollar threshold is licensed through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors (MSBOC) as a business-level Certificate of Responsibility (commercial) or Residential License — earned by a company's designated "qualifying individual" passing a trade exam plus a Law and Business Management exam. This guide covers exactly what those exams require: format, references, NEC edition, and markup rules, straight from PSI's current Mississippi... Read more...
Maine Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Requirements: NEC Book, Application & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Maine Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Preparing for the Maine Journeyman or Master Electrician exam? Before you buy anything, read this carefully: unlike almost every other state we've covered, Maine's Journeyman and Master Electrician exams are closed book — you cannot bring an NEC codebook, or any other reference, into the exam room. This guide explains eligibility, the exam format, what the exam is actually built from (for study purposes), and the one narrow Limited Electrician category where a codebook genuinely is allowed. Last verified: September... Read more...
Louisiana Electrical Contractor License Exam Requirements: NEC Book, Application & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Louisiana Electrical Contractor License Exam Preparing for the Louisiana Electrical Contractor exam? Louisiana's system works differently than most states: there's no statewide Journeyman or Master electrician license at all — the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (LSLBC) licenses businesses as electrical contractors. This guide explains the classification system, the Business & Law and trade exam requirements, financial and insurance requirements, and the exact rules for tabs, highlighting, and notes on PSI's exam. Last verified: September 3, 2026 — against LSLBC's Exams & Classifications page, Types... Read more...
Kentucky Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Requirements: NEC Book, Application & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Kentucky Journeyman & Master Electrician Exam Preparing for the Kentucky Journeyman or Master Electrician exam? This guide explains how the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction (DHBC) structures its electrical licenses, the experience pathways for each license type, how the Prov-administered exam works, which NEC editions and companion reference are actually required, and the exact rules for tabs, highlighting, and notes. Last verified: September 3, 2026 — against DHBC's Electrical New Application Checklists, Form EL-3, the Electrical Licensure Fee Schedule, DHBC's 2023 NEC Update Announcement,... Read more...
Wichita & Sedgwick County Electrician License: Requirements, Exam & Study Guide
Home › Electrical › Kansas › Wichita & Sedgwick County Electrician License Preparing to get licensed as an electrician in Wichita or Sedgwick County, Kansas? Kansas has no statewide electrician license — licensing is handled city and county by city and county — and the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department (MABCD) runs a combined city-county system covering both the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County. This guide explains eligibility for Journeyman and Master electrician certificates, the ICC exam, current NEC edition, fees, and continuing education. Last verified: September 3,... Read more...
Kansas Electrician License Requirements: Why There's No Statewide Exam
Home › Electrical › Kansas Electrician License Requirements Looking for "Kansas electrician license requirements"? As in Illinois and Indiana, there's no single statewide answer. Kansas does not issue a statewide electrical contractor or journeyman license. The state legislature sets a statutory floor for what counts as journeyman-level experience, but every city and county sets, tests, and enforces its own licensing rules on top of that floor. Last verified: September 3, 2026 — against Sedgwick County's Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department (MABCD) licensing pages. Local ordinances change independently of each... Read more...