Direct answers for the ten Texas electrician searches, each taken from TDLR or the PSI candidate bulletin and linked to the longer page. Read dates are on those pages. This is not a license and not legal advice.
texas journeyman electrician exam
The Texas Journeyman Electrician exam is an open-book PSI exam on the 2026 NEC with two separately timed parts: 59 NEC Knowledge questions in 130 minutes and 26 Calculations questions in 110 minutes. You need 70% on each part. The fee is $78 per attempt. In TDLR’s fiscal 2025 data, 24.46% of NEC attempts and 20.56% of Calculations attempts passed.
Longer page: /texas-journeyman-electrician-exam/
electrician license texas
Texas electricians are licensed by TDLR. Most start with a $20 Electrical Apprentice license, which needs no exam. After 7,000 supervised hours you can take the Journeyman exam, and the license is issued at 8,000 hours. Master needs two years as a Journeyman and 12,000 hours. Licenses renew every year with 4 hours of continuing education.
Longer page: /texas-electrician-license-types/
texas electrician apprentice license
A Texas Electrical Apprentice license needs no experience and no exam. You apply online to TDLR and pay a $20 fee, and online applicants who report no criminal convictions get a temporary license automatically. The license lasts one year. You work under a Master Electrician, Journeyman Electrician or Residential Wireman, and hours under a Texas Master count toward Journeyman.
Longer page: /texas-electrician-apprentice-license/
texas master electrician exam
To take the Texas Master Electrician exam you need two years as a licensed Journeyman and 12,000 hours under a Texas Master Electrician, plus a $45 TDLR application. The PSI exam has two parts on the 2026 NEC: 75 NEC questions in 150 minutes and 33 Calculations questions in 170 minutes. You need 70% on each part.
Longer page: /texas-master-electrician-exam/
texas journeyman electrician practice test
A Texas Journeyman practice test should match the real PSI exam: two separately timed parts on the 2026 NEC, 59 NEC Knowledge questions in 130 minutes and 26 Calculations questions in 110 minutes, with 70% needed on each. The Texas practice test on this site offers 70 free questions in rounds of 20, with no sign-up, each with an explanation and its NEC article.
Longer page: /texas-journeyman-electrician-practice-test/
journeyman electrician practice test
A journeyman electrician practice test is only useful if it matches your state’s exam. In Texas that means the PSI format on the 2026 NEC: 59 NEC Knowledge questions in 130 minutes and 26 Calculations questions in 110 minutes, 70% on each part. Try a free 20-question round, then review the NEC article behind every miss.
Longer page: /texas-journeyman-electrician-practice-test/
how to become an electrician in texas
To become an electrician in Texas, get a $20 Electrical Apprentice license from TDLR, then work under a licensed Master Electrician. You can take the two-part PSI Journeyman exam at 7,000 hours, and TDLR issues the Journeyman license at 8,000 hours, about four years of full-time work. A Residential Wireman license needs 4,000 hours.
Longer page: /how-to-become-an-electrician-in-texas/
texas electrician apprenticeship
An electrician apprenticeship in Texas starts with a $20 Electrical Apprentice license from TDLR. You then earn hours under a Texas Master Electrician, either through a registered program such as an IBEW and NECA union JATC or an IEC or ABC merit-shop chapter, or by being hired directly by a contractor. You need 8,000 hours for Journeyman.
Longer page: /texas-electrician-apprentice-license/
nec code book tabs
On Texas electrician exams, PSI allows only permanent index tabs made or supplied by the NEC book’s publisher. Homemade and third-party tabs are not allowed. You may highlight, underline and write notes in a soft-bound 2026 NEC before exam day, but not during the exam. Spiral-bound, loose-leaf and ring-bound copies and the NEC Handbook are banned.
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texas electrical contractor license
A Texas Electrical Contractor license is a TDLR business license. The business needs a licensed Master Electrician of record, liability insurance of at least $300,000 per occurrence, $600,000 aggregate and $300,000 for products and completed operations, and workers’ compensation proof or an election not to carry it. The fee is $110, and there is no separate exam.
Longer page: /texas-electrical-contractor-license/
Sources: TDLR electrician exams, TDLR fiscal 2025 exam statistics, apprentice license, journeyman license, contractor license.
