Texas Fire Sprinkler Test Day: TFM-08 and TFM-10 at PSI

Texas Fire Sprinkler Test Day: TFM-08 and TFM-10 at PSI

The basics

The time limit is set by PSI. Check your PSI confirmation and candidate bulletin before test day rather than relying on a figure from a forum.

Most candidates sit only TFM-08. TFM-10 is for the RME-U, unless a Texas PE license waives it.

Closed book means closed book

You are tested on Insurance Code Chapter 6003, 28 TAC 34 Subchapter G and, for TFM-10, NFPA 24. None of them come in with you.

That catches people coming from NICET, whose exams are open book. Budget your study for recall:

• the numbers;
• the time periods;
• which license allows what.

What to bring

• Identification meeting PSI's requirements, with a name that matches your registration.
• Nothing else. Personal items stay outside the testing room.

Pacing

Fifty questions is short. Read each question fully: true/false items in particular turn on a single word ("all", "only", "never").

A workable rhythm:

1. Answer everything you know.
2. Flag the rest.
3. Come back to the flagged questions.
4. Never leave one blank.

Retakes are limited

Each test can be scheduled once a week, and no more than three times in 12 months. Every attempt is another $48.

Three attempts sounds generous until you fail twice in a month. Sit TFM-08 when you are ready, not to see what is on it.

Your result has a shelf life

A passing result is valid for one year for applying. Time TFM-08 so the rest of your application, whether that is a NICET certification or TFM-10, is ready inside that year.

Where candidates lose points

• Treating TFM-08 as easy. It is all statute and rule. Designers and fitters with years in the trade still miss the fee and time-period questions because they never read Subchapter G.
• Edition drift on TFM-10. Texas adopts NFPA 24-2019. If you learned on a newer edition, check what changed.
• License scope. Know what the RME-G, RME-D, RME-U and RME-I each require, and what a Texas PE license does and does not waive.

Practice under the same rules

Closed book, 50 questions per test. Our Texas fire sprinkler practice exams run TFM-08 and TFM-10 separately, the way PSI does. Start with the free practice test, and see what each test covers.