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Electrical Exam Book Trick To do Right Now with Brief Notes



When you go take your electrical license exam, you are allowed to bring your code book in. There are a few rules though.

For the Texas exam, the NEC book must be:

  • Softbound
  • Any tabs must be permanent, not post it notes. 
  • Highlights are allowed 
  • Brief notes are allowed

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 Let’s clarify and talk about the short notes that are allowed to be written in your NEC book.  

As far as the short notes go, the rule is that you CAN write in your NEC book. They just don't want you to have a whole page of notes in the very back in the blank pages.  

They also don’t want you to have sticky notes or additional pages glued to your NEC book.

Back in the day many guys would do all sorts of things that helped them pass the exam.  Some would turn their softbound NEC books into spiral NEC books. Others would spiral them with additional pages slipped in there, you know, before the spiraling process began.

Now we know why spiral bound NEC books aren’t allowed anymore.  You can’t bring in a ring binder copy of the NEC either.

So when in doubt on the handwritten notes, limit your notes to about a single note per article that you write about.

For example, if you're gonna do steps for your calculations, like we go through the seminars. Just write the steps next to the article that they go to so that they're kind of spread throughout.  This way your notes are not all on one page.

5 tips for writing notes in the nec book for the electrical exam


Tips:
  • Write steps of calculations next to the article that they go to.
  • Spread notes throughout the NEC book.
  • Write towards the inside column, there is more empty space there.
  • Write in BLACK ink only. Usually testing centers give you blue ink or pencil.

This way you don’t have anything written in your NEC book that they might accidentally mistake as something that you wrote down during the exam.  It's really not worth the risk.


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Come to the seminars if you are in the Texas area.  These seminars help you prepare for the Texas electrical exam by covering only subjects specific to this state.

Here is the new schedule for the electrical exam prep seminars in Texas.

Houston February 15 & 16, 2020
Austin March 14 & 15, 2020
Dallas TBD

❗️Limited spots available so register asap.

We cover all 10 subject areas and 22 categories that are in the actual exam in Texas.

📌Tuition
Master electrical Lic Prep - $349
Journeyman electrical Lic Prep - $299

📌By the end of the seminar, you’ll know:
✔️How to answer calculation questions
✔️To navigate through the NEC book fast for answers
✔️How to practice taking exams so you can pass the real exam the 1st time
✔️Electrical Theory, Plans, and charts
✔️The NEC exam format and interpretations
✔️All subject areas in the exam

Learn more or register here.

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