Texas master electrician exam

Format

• Time left over from one portion does not carry to the other.
• The fee is $78 for both portions. If you fail one or both, the retake fee is $78.
• You can take the exam in English or in Spanish at no extra cost.

Requirements

• You must have held a journeyman electrician license for at least two years.
• You must show 12,000 hours of on-the-job training under a master electrician licensed in Texas.
• The first application goes by mail, with a non-refundable $45 fee.

Your code book and calculator

• The exam is open book, and the book has rules. Any soft-bound edition of the code book may be used; loose-leaf, spiral-bound and ring-bound copies are not allowed in the room.
• You may highlight, underline and write notes in your book before the exam session, but not during it.
• Tabs are allowed only if they are permanent index tabs made or provided by the publisher of the code book. Homemade tabs are not.
• Only non-programmable calculators that are silent, battery-operated, without paper tape and without an alphabet keyboard are allowed.

Pass rates

These are the master results TDLR published for fiscal year 2025.

Practice the calculations portion

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Common questions

Official sources

• PSI — Candidate Information Bulletin, TDLR Electricians
• TDLR — Electricians: Exam Information
• TDLR — Apply for a Master Electrician License
• TDLR — Electrician Exam Statistics, Fiscal Year 2025

Facts checked against these sources on 2026-11-12.