What's on the Georgia Class I Electrical Contractor Exam? The PSI Outline
PSI's content outline for the Georgia Class I (Restricted) exam: 30 regulations, laws and administration questions, 110 technical questions by area, the Class II-only tasks you can skip, the reference list, and how to study it.
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What's on the Georgia Class I Electrical Contractor Exam?
The Georgia Class I exam has 140 scored questions in two areas, and you need a scaled score of 70 on the whole exam. The counts below are from PSI's Candidate Information Handbook for the Division of Electrical Contractors (bulletin 4783), whose reference list runs through December 31, 2026.
Area 1: Regulations, Laws, and Administrative Functions (30)
| Subject area | Questions | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Comply with Laws | 10 | Workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, the IRS Employer's Tax Guide (Circular E), the Georgia Construction Industry Licensing Board, state sales and use tax, business licenses |
| Comply with Regulations | 9 | OSHA's construction standards (29 CFR 1926), the NEC, NFPA, UL and testing-lab listing, permits and inspections |
| Administrative Requirements | 6 | Bonding and liquidated damages, insurance, financing and cash flow, bookkeeping, accident reports, estimating and bidding, contracts and purchase orders |
| Plan and Organize Work | 5 | Drawings and specifications for submittals, inventory, scheduling and project management |
This area is identical on the Class I and Class II exams.
Area 2: Technical Functions (110)
| Subject area | Class I questions |
|---|---|
| Install and Maintain Interior Electrical Systems | 30 |
| Install and Maintain Electrical Controls and Devices | 22 |
| Maintain Basic Electrical Circuits | 21 |
| Special Equipment, Conditions, and Locations | 21 |
| Install and Maintain DC and AC Rotating Equipment | 9 |
| Install, Size, and Maintain Transformers | 7 |
Interior systems is the biggest single area: raceways (EMT, IMC, rigid, PVC, ENT, flexible and liquidtight), NM, SE, SER and UF cable, busway, panelboards and breakers, services and service grounding, temporary services, emergency lighting, appliances, and lighting and load calculations.
Controls and devices covers relays and time-delay relays, magnetic and reduced-voltage starters, overload relays, drum switches, limit, pressure and temperature switches, selector and HOA switches, surge protectors, programmable controllers, motion detectors, and panels, breakers and disconnects.
Special equipment covers health care facilities, pools and hot tubs, welders, gas stations, hazardous locations, IT equipment, dimmers, communications systems, UPS and standby systems, elevators, signs, mobile homes, systems over 600 volts, and low-voltage systems.
The Class II-only tasks
PSI marks some motor and transformer tasks Class II only, and Class I does not test them: three-phase motor connections (delta and star), DC motors and generators, the specialty motor types, fire pumps, transformer oil and cleaning, CT and PT metering, three-phase transformer connections and banks, and transformers in parallel. On Class I, rotating equipment means reversing and changing the speed of single-phase motors, dual-voltage single-phase connections, capacitor motors, motor nameplates, and sizing motor branch circuits, short-circuit and overload protection. Transformers means single-phase step-up and step-down connections, 120/240-volt distribution, autotransformers, load testing and harmonics.
What you can bring
The exam is open book, limited to PSI's reference list: the 2023 NEC (or the NEC Handbook), the American Electricians' Handbook (17th edition), Ugly's Electrical References (2023), Printreading Based on the 2020 NEC, the NASCLA Contractors Guide for the Georgia Construction Industry Licensing Board (5th edition), the IRS Employer's Tax Guide (Circular E) and 29 CFR 1926. Highlighting, underlining and permanent tabs are allowed; handwritten notes are not.
PSI notes that some questions rest on field experience and trade practice, so the exam is not limited to what is in the books.
The Georgia amendments
Georgia enforces the 2023 NEC with its own amendments, revised January 1, 2026. Most of them scale back the 2023 GFCI and AFCI expansions: Georgia rewrites 210.8(A), (D) and (F), 210.12(B) and 210.52(C)(2) and (3), and amends 215.18(A), 225.42(A) and 230.67(A). Whether the exam tests the amended text is not published, so know both and expect the national text on code questions unless a question says Georgia.
How to study
- Lead with interior systems and controls. Together they are 52 of the 110 technical questions. Tab Chapter 3, Articles 210 to 250, 404, 408 and 430 Parts VI and VII.
- Do the calculations in the book you will have. Load calculations, conductor fill and motor branch circuits are where open-book time goes; practice with the 2023 NEC's table numbers, since 2020-edition material numbers several of them differently.
- Don't skip Area 1. Thirty questions on business, safety and Georgia licensing law are a fifth of the exam, and a strong technical score cannot always carry a weak one.
Practice for the exam
Our Georgia Electrical Contractor Class I practice test draws from these areas in the same proportions and leaves out the Class II-only tasks. Every explanation cites the section it comes from. For the logistics of test day, see the Georgia Class I exam day.
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