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Jim W in Tampa said:
Almost nobody passes first time,Night before test ,DO NOT STUDY,get plenty of sleep.You cant possably learn enough in that last few hours to make up for being tired.When i took masters my doctor told me to take lots of vitamins and eat all the hershey bars i could.Keep coffee to the min
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I went out drinking the night before taking my masters test and I think this helped me ( passed first time ). You see I was so hung over that I thought I might die before the day was over so I really wasn't all that worried about passing the test ( lower stress level). This is not a joke.:wink:

I really think that if a person starts to prepare for the test 6 months in advance they will not have a problem. If they only start to prepare a few days before the test they really better know their stuff.

By the way I didn't plan on drinking very much. I went out to have a good meal, a couple of beers and then get a good nights sleep. Which is probably the best all around thing to do. :grin: :grin:
 
growler said:
I went out drinking the night before taking my masters test and I think this helped me ( passed first time ). You see I was so hung over that I thought I might die before the day was over so I really wasn't all that worried about passing the test ( lower stress level). This is not a joke.:wink:

I really think that if a person starts to prepare for the test 6 months in advance they will not have a problem. If they only start to prepare a few days before the test they really better know their stuff.

By the way I didn't plan on drinking very much. I went out to have a good meal, a couple of beers and then get a good nights sleep. Which is probably the best all around thing to do. :grin: :grin:
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I think the hard thing about these tests are the broad spectrum/diversity of the content. Really, we have no desire to do low voltage, industrial. It's to bad they can't be career specific. He told me last night that there was a lot of low voltage questions. Even though he knew alot of them it was still a waiste of content. Really, he's not going in as phone or security tech. So, when you have been doing commercial and residential for so long then go on your own, you know you are going to take the test so you grab all the books you've collected and then buy all the updated ones, study, go take the test and then go HOLY COW CRAP!!! Some of the questions on code you can't possibly know or didn't care because you know from all your experience and working with inspectors, they don't even inforce. I can't help but wonder who makes these test up. I know he really wishes he took his masters a long time ago. Now the pressure of trying to get the company up and running, working 16hr days, and providing for his family, he can't even think straight. Ah well, keep on trucking until you pass.
 
I am from Northern VA, and I have had a License since they started giving the test. The original test was one of the harder test I have taken out of the 12-15 master test I have been required to take.

I think they started about 15-18 years ago, too lazy to look that far back in my records.

Wardensville, I was there last weekend and owned land in Wardenvilles long time ago. Lots of friends and EX-family (hence the owned land) there.
 
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cowboyjwc said:
If you have to mark the grounded conductor at the end as per 200.6(A)(1) then the conductor in the cable must be black.

So it's black until you make it white. You know, like in... What's the color of George Washingtons white horse?
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John......see......I Flunked on that one:grin:
 
brian john said:
I am from Northern VA, and I have had a License since they started giving the test. The original test was one of the harder test I have taken out of the 12-15 master test I have been required to take.

I think they started about 15-18 years ago, too lazy to look that far back in my records.

Wardensville, I was there last weekend and owned land in Wardenvilles long time ago. Lots of friends and EX-family (hence the owned land) there.
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Well, Leesburg is where my husband is from. I'm sure you are familiar with Beckstrom Electric. He helped Kenny start that company and was with him for almost 17 years, Kenny is like a father to him. Pretty much that whole company is his family. My ex is from Leesburg also (Hough). We just moved to Wardensville from Winchester last summer and it is beautiful. Hopefully we'll have time some day to enjoy the fishing around here.
 
Good for him.

I had the same problems with my practice tests. I knew I would need a +67% to pass, but on the practice tests on Saturday I was only scoring in the 70% range and knew that wasn't enough. Sunday I went in took the tests twice and scored in the high 90% on both.

Went in feeling good and passed the first time.
 
EBFD6 said:
???.....if the MI cable is black, you have more problems on your hands than re-identifying the grounded conductor.
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Actually I've never installed MI cable so I was only assuming that the conductors were all black since it says in the code section that it has to be identified as the grounded conductor. Could be white already for all I know and all I know ain't much.:grin:
 
growler said:
I went out drinking the night before taking my masters test and I think this helped me ( passed first time ). You see I was so hung over that I thought I might die before the day was over so I really wasn't all that worried about passing the test ( lower stress level). This is not a joke.:wink:

I really think that if a person starts to prepare for the test 6 months in advance they will not have a problem. If they only start to prepare a few days before the test they really better know their stuff.

By the way I didn't plan on drinking very much. I went out to have a good meal, a couple of beers and then get a good nights sleep. Which is probably the best all around thing to do. :grin: :grin:
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i passed my journeyman test in a little over an hour. studied 5 hours a night for a month (no bs) and the night before i went to bed early and had a cup of coffee in the morning and a muffin and was a little nervous but i knew i studied all i could. answered every question and found all of them in the code book except one. hopefully the masters test will be just as easy
 
electricalperson said:
i passed my journeyman test in a little over an hour. studied 5 hours a night for a month (no bs) and the night before i went to bed early and had a cup of coffee in the morning and a muffin and was a little nervous but i knew i studied all i could. answered every question and found all of them in the code book except one. hopefully the masters test will be just as easy
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I saw a study one time that incompetent people did not know that they were incompetent and actually thought highly of themselves, While competent tended to have doubts.

I went into my contractors test scared to death and the same with my EI certification test and passed both of them with no trouble.

Most of us are usually smarter than we give ourselves credit for. I think that it is mostly the fear of the unknown that scares us, I always wish that I could just see the questions before a test just so I would know what to expect.

I went into the ICC web site and they had five sample questions, multiple choice.

1. How man SA circuits are required in a residential kitchen?
2. The grounded conductor shall be____in color?
3. GFCI stands for?
4. What is the ampacity of #14 conductor?
5. The green conductor is used for?

Didn't see any of them on the test:)
 
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