Every Michigan Exam Page, in the Order You'll Need It
The whole site on one page, arranged along a candidate's own timeline, from learning what each paper looks like to reading the score report afterwards.
How this list is arranged
Every page listed here cites the rule, statute section or bulletin line behind its figures, and where two sources disagree it prints both. If your date is months away, start at the top. If it's next week, go straight to the book check and test day.
Know the paper you're sitting
- Journeyman exam: 80 questions in 150 minutes, open book, with 75 percent to pass.
- Master exam: 76 questions in 180 minutes at the same 75 percent, and the experience LARA wants before you book.
- Fire alarm and sign exams: 36 questions in 90 minutes and 32 in 60, both passing at 75 percent.
- Content areas: the fifteen areas the outlines name with no item counts, and where each one sits in the 2023 book.
Settle the edition question
- Edition on the paper: the 2023 NEC, and every section number that moved in the 2026 book.
- Code in force: the 2023 NEC as adopted and amended by Part 8, in effect since 12 March 2024.
- Part 8 amendments: gas piping bonding, NM cable, the dwelling emergency disconnect and Michigan's own administrative front.
- 2026 adoption draft: rule set 2026-17 LR, dated 19 August 2026, which takes effect 120 days after filing and was still unfiled on 4 September 2026.
Plan the weeks and practice
- Study plan: four weeks at about ten hours a week, built around a clean 2023 code book.
- Timed practice exam: 30 free items paced like the real paper, with every miss worked through.
- Calculator overview: what the two calculators do, and where their 2026 numbers differ from the 2023 book.
- Transformer calculator: kVA in, primary and secondary amps out, then the largest overcurrent device allowed.
- Ohm's law calculator: any two of volts, amps, ohms and watts give the other two, with three-phase and power factor covered.
Get the book ready
- Reference book rules: the four documents allowed, factory tabs only, three staples per document, and the Handbook left at home.
Sit the paper
- Test day: arrive 15 minutes early with one photo ID, and everything you can't carry in goes into secure storage.
After the score
- Retakes: two attempts within a year, the one-year wait after two failures in two years, and the $100 fee each time.
Any time: quick answers
- Twenty short answers: format, fee, book rules, the edition, attempt limits and the day itself, each one cited.
The book that counts on exam day is your own unmarked copy of the National Electrical Code. Michigan's papers stay open book on the 2023 edition until the PSI bulletin names a newer one.
Every practice item on this site was written here, and none of them came off a real Michigan paper.
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