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Electrical Exam Prep: Reduce Frustration

Did you know there are ways to study and prepare for the licensing exam without spending thousands of dollars or more?  It seems that everywhere you turn someone is asking for almost your entire paycheck just to learn something you already know how to do.  Heck, that's how you earned that paycheck in the first place.  You're on the field day in and day out, cold, hot, wet or dry.  You come home tired and hungry and let's not kid ourselves, we come home smelling a lot manlier than we want to sometimes.  Yet there are companies online and even locally that have the guts to ask for upwards of $600 dollars for a class that promises to help you ace the exam. There is no two ways about it, the exam in Texas is hard to pass even for the brightest bulb in the warehouse, the sharpest tool in the shed, you get my drift.  I'm not calling anyone dim or dull, let's just be real, we spend our days in the field: Not inside an office or school classroom all day practicing our rea

Question and Answer Exam Memorization

We have gotten many calls lately asking us if we provide a question answer memorization style of teaching.  The short answer is no.  The instructor that we have partnered up with and handle enrollment for does not believe in handing out the fish, he believes in teaching his students how to fish.  That and this isn't high school, we aren't studying for a history exam. Unfortunately, there are organizations still out there whose philosophy remains the same since before 2008.  Why  specifically 2008?  In Texas the electrical exam changed drastically that year.  Before that change the exam was fairly easy to pass to the point where memorization was possible and could result in a passing score.  Since the change the content changed, the level of difficulty changed, and the contractor delivering examinations was replaced with PSI.   To say that memorizing a series of questions and answers and successfully passing the exam is not only misleading but a waste of time.  The time that