Alaska Journeyman Electrician Exam Day: Where, What to Bring and Retakes
Exam day for Alaska's electrician journeyman certificate of fitness: Mechanical Inspection offices, proctors and union exams, the 2020 NEC, the 70% pass mark and the 30-day retake rule.
Alaska Journeyman Electrician Exam Day: Where, What to Bring and Retakes
Alaska's journeyman exam is not given by a national testing company. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development's Mechanical Inspection section schedules and gives it, under 8 AAC 90.115.
Where you test
| Option | How it works |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Inspection office | By appointment in Anchorage, Juneau or Fairbanks. The Juneau and Fairbanks offices are staffed by field inspectors, so appointments there go through the Anchorage office. |
| Another location | Send a written request to the Anchorage office. Mechanical Inspection may bring the exam to you if it can. |
| Third-party test site | Mechanical Inspection can refer you to an approved site, which gives its own exam at your expense. |
| Exam proctor | An approved proctor gives the exam at your expense and returns it to Mechanical Inspection for grading. |
| Your union | An Alaska union with an agreement on exam standards can give its own exam and file a sworn affidavit that you scored 70% or more. |
Format
Mechanical Inspection publishes no question count, time limit or reference list. Prep providers report about 80 questions in 4 hours, open book with the NEC, but sources conflict, so ask when you are scheduled:
- How many questions, and how long?
- Is it open book, and which books may I bring?
- Which NEC edition? (Alaska's adopted code is the 2020 NEC, 8 AAC 70.025.)
If it is open book, tab your 2020 NEC by article and mark the tables you use most: 220.12 and 220.42, 250.66 and 250.122, 310.16 and its correction factors, 314.16, the Chapter 9 conduit tables and the motor tables in Article 430.
Pass mark and retakes
You need 70% (8 AAC 90.115(c)). If you fail, you can retake the exam 30 days after the failed attempt (8 AAC 90.115(d)). No limit on attempts is published.
After you pass
Pay the $200 certificate fee and Mechanical Inspection issues your journeyman certificate of fitness, good for two years. Carry it whenever you work in the trade (8 AAC 90.105). To renew, you will need 16 hours of continuing education, at least 8 of them on NEC changes.
Get ready
Work through the exam topics and take our free Alaska Journeyman practice test on the 2020 NEC to see where you stand.
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