What's on the Georgia Class II Electrical Contractor Exam? The PSI Outline

What's on the Georgia Class II Electrical Contractor Exam?

The Georgia Class II exam has 140 scored questions and a passing scaled score of 70. It shares its business and law area with Class I; the difference is a technical area that leans hard on motors and transformers. 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)

Area 2: Technical Functions (110)

Class II moves 21 questions out of circuits, controls and interior wiring and into machines: 37 of the 110 technical questions are motors and transformers, against 16 on Class I.

Transformers (21)

The Class II transformer tasks include dual-voltage connections for high and low input and output, single-phase step-up and step-down connections, autotransformers, 120/240-volt and three-phase four-wire distribution, delta and Y supply connections, four-wire delta and four-wire star secondaries, three single-phase transformers connected delta-delta, delta-star, star-delta and star-star, open-delta and parallel connections, CT and PT metering connections, checking transformer oil, cleaning power transformers, load testing and harmonics.

Rotating equipment (16)

Reversing and changing the speed of motors, dual-voltage connections for single-phase and three-phase motors, delta and star stator connections, capacitor motors, the DC compound, shunt and series motors and the DC generator, repulsion-induction, shaded-pole, split-phase, synchronous, three-phase induction and wound-rotor motors, fire pump installation (NFPA 20), motor loads and overload protection, nameplate data, motor and control diagrams, and sizing short-circuit protection and branch circuits.

The other technical areas cover the same tasks as Class I: interior wiring methods, services and grounding, controls and devices, and special locations from health care and pools to hazardous locations and systems over 600 volts.

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.

For the transformer and motor questions, the American Electricians' Handbook matters as much as the NEC: its transformer and motor divisions cover the connections, ratios and machine types the outline lists, while the NEC covers protection and installation (Articles 430 and 450).

The Georgia amendments

Georgia enforces the 2023 NEC with its own amendments, revised January 1, 2026, mostly scaling back the 2023 GFCI and AFCI expansions in 210.8 and 210.12. Whether the exam tests the amended text is not published, so know both and expect the national text unless a question says Georgia.

How to study

1. Put motors and transformers first. Thirty-seven questions is a third of the technical area. Work three-phase connections, turns ratios and current calculations until they are quick, and tab Article 430, Article 450 and the Handbook's transformer and motor divisions.
2. Practice the calculations with the 2023 tables. Motor full-load current, overload sizing and transformer protection all come from tables whose numbers you need to find fast.
3. Keep Area 1 in the plan. Thirty business, safety and licensing questions are a fifth of the score.

Practice for the exam

Our Georgia Electrical Contractor Class II practice test draws from these areas in the same proportions, with the full Class II share of motor and transformer questions. Every explanation cites its source. For test-day logistics, see the Georgia Class II exam day.