Preparation for TX Master Electrical License

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Mr. Holt,

I am preparing to take my TX Master's Exam, but I'm not sure exactly what to study. Do you have any tips? By the way, I do have a list of topics. I thinks the list of topics is very broad. I want to know if there is specific information I need to focus on.

Thank You,

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Mr. Holt does not often visit this forum, so you will have to settle for whatever answers you can get from the rest of us. ;)

Have you looked at his primary web site? There is a link at the top of this page.
 
I took the test 5 years ago , and its changed from ICC to PSI exams.However i doubt most of the content has changed nor the typical questions. I would say for this and most all trade open book tests, knowing the book is the best way to pass the test , we all have our areas we are experinced in however the test are over all areas . I would suggest a prep class to get you in the study mode.
GOOD LUCK
 
Google Ray Holder Electrical Seminars, he gives exam prep classes and if you study what he tells you to will be very well prepaird.
 
what to study for

what to study for

Mike exam prep books will be okay. I took mine about 6 years ago. Their test was administered by a different organization then than it is now. I would say be ready for a few calculations, and read the questions carefully, be aware of minimum and maximum in the text and how it applies.

Their test covered almost every segment it not all of them, some was just one question for a particular article.

They did have a plan that you had to estimate and calculate from, this took some time because the plans were not the best plans to go buy. This was done to make you think, there was enough information there to get an answer.

One thing is to have a plan for the test, I would go over every question and answer the ones that I knew off the top of my head, and have a piece of scrap paper there that I had written all the numbers of the test questions on it. Marking with a check mark the ones I had done. The computer will keep track of this for you also and you can look back at the ones you have not done.

I make a mark of the ones that will take me to the code book and will take some time, the ones that I think I know and will need to look up in the code book will have different mark on my scratch paper.

I did it this way and was able to handle all the questions, the last thirty minutes was spent on to tough questions and the plans. I was able to get the questions, and had already completed some of the plans earlier. I was able to come back and look at the plans and complete the questions.

If you study good and do alright on the rest of the test, you can miss several of the plans questions and still pass.

At the time I used Stallcup's Master test prep 6 years ago, for then it was a good prep I do not know about now. He covered every area, everything he covered was on the test in one way or the other. Mike's does the same I have one. The prep was good it got you to thinking the way they do when they come up with some of the questions designed to stump you if you do not read closely.

Hope this help's, be confident take the test, if you fail it will tell you what areas you need to bone up on.
 
I Used Mike Holt's "Electrician's Exam Preparation" To Pass My Tests

I Used Mike Holt's "Electrician's Exam Preparation" To Pass My Tests

I originally bought Mike Holt's "Electrician's Exam Preparation" for a written Jorneyman's exam in WV. I have since used it to pass the written WV Master exam and also VA and DC Master exams on computer. I found it to be very helpful and very complete. For the most part, I used it to learn all of the calculations I would be likely to need to pass the exams. I did try looking up all of the code questions, but that got very old very quickly. At this point, the book is too old to be very useful for that, unless you can find a newer edition (mine is for the '99 NEC). But, using this book, I passed all four of the exams I have taken on the first try each time and can recommend Mike Holt's books.
 
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different for sure, lots of calculations. Questions that I have never been asked before. Make sure you know calculations. be sure to look in the annex D for some of them. The calculations are not easy ones, (at least this time around for me, but not ever again) 12, 12 kw ranges on a three phase service.
 
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