Mississippi Master Electrician Exam Day: Scheduling, Books, Timing and Retakes

Mississippi Master Electrician Exam Day: What to Expect

PSI gives the Mississippi State Board of Contractors' exams at its test centers. For the commercial Electrical classification, the company's qualifying party passes the Master Electrician trade exam covered here and the separate Law and Business Management exam.

Scheduling

You can't book until the Board makes you eligible. PSI then emails you a confirmation. Check your spam folder.

• Register and schedule online at test-takers.psiexams.com/mscontlb, or by phone at (855) 557-0619 with a credit card.
• Each exam costs $120, or $240 for the trade exam and Law and Business Management together.
• PSI's Mississippi test center is in Jackson (2679 Crane Ridge Drive). You can also test at PSI centers in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile, or anywhere else PSI operates. No remote option is offered.
• If a seat is open, you can book as late as the day before, up to 6:00 pm Central.
• To cancel or reschedule without losing the fee, reach PSI at least two days before your appointment, online or by phone. Voicemail does not count. For a Monday exam, that means by Saturday. PSI keeps a paid fee on file for a year.

What to bring

• Identification as PSI's bulletin specifies.
• Your reference books. The exam is open book on:
  • the 2020 NEC, the only edition allowed in the room
  • 29 CFR 1926 (or PSI's 1926 selections)
  • Ugly's Electrical References (2011, 2014 or 2017)

You may highlight, underline and index your books before the exam. Tabs must be permanent; Post-it notes and other temporary tabs must come out before the exam starts. You may not write in the books or bring loose or attached papers. A candidate caught writing in a reference has it confiscated.

• A calculator that is silent, non-printing and non-programmable.

Arrive 30 minutes early to sign in. If you arrive after your start time, you may be turned away and lose the fee.

During the exam

• 80 scored questions in 3 hours, on a computer.
• PSI may add one to ten unscored experimental questions, about 10% of the exam, and they count against your time.
• That leaves roughly 2 minutes a question. Answer what you know first, mark the lookups, and come back.

Your score

You need 70%. Your score appears on screen as soon as you finish, and you can print the report from your PSI account.

Retakes

From the date the Board makes you eligible, you have 6 months to pass, with unlimited retakes. You pay $120 each time. If you haven't passed after 6 months, you reapply to the Board.

After you pass

Once the Board has your passing scores for both exams and a complete application, it reviews applications weekly on Fridays and issues approved licenses the following Wednesday. See Mississippi Master Electrician requirements.

Get ready first

Start with our free Mississippi Master Electrician practice test, then work the full 80-question practice exam under a 3-hour clock. What's on the exam lists every area.