What's on the Vermont Master Electrician Exam (2023 NEC)
The nine content areas of Prov's Vermont Master Electrician exam and how many of the 105 questions come from each, the references you can bring, the specialty-field questions and the five Local Amendments questions.
Contents
What's on the Vermont Master Electrician Exam (2023 NEC)
Prov's Vermont Master Electrician exam has 105 questions in 300 minutes, open book, and you need 70%. Prov publishes the number of questions in each area.
The outline
| Content area | Questions |
|---|---|
| Wiring and Protection | 34 |
| Wiring Methods and Materials | 21 |
| General Electrical Knowledge | 12 |
| Motors and Controls | 11 |
| Equipment for General Use | 10 |
| Local Amendments (Vermont rules and statute) | 5 |
| Special Conditions | 4 |
| Special Equipment | 4 |
| Special Occupancies | 4 |
| Total | 105 |
Compared with the journeyman exam, the master exam puts more weight on Motors and Controls (11 questions instead of 3) and adds General Electrical Knowledge (12): the NEC's general requirements in Articles 90, 100 and 110, Chapter 9 tables and electrical calculations. Wiring and Protection is still the largest area at 34.
The references
Everything on Prov's master list is open book:
- The 2023 NEC
- Ugly's Electrical References, 2020
- The 2025 Vermont Electrical Safety Rules
- 26 V.S.A. chapter 15, the electrician statute (open book for the master exam)
Where the code questions come from
- Wiring and Protection: Chapter 2: branch circuits, feeders, load calculations, services, overcurrent protection, grounding and bonding.
- Wiring Methods and Materials: Chapter 3: raceways, cables, boxes, conductors and conduit fill.
- Motors and Controls: Article 430 (full-load current tables, branch-circuit protection, overloads, controllers and disconnects), Article 440 and Article 460.
- General Electrical Knowledge: definitions, working space and general rules in Articles 90-110, Chapter 9, and calculations with Ugly's.
- Equipment for General Use: the rest of Chapter 4.
- Special Occupancies, Equipment and Conditions: Chapters 5, 6 and 7. Vermont's rules require the master exam to include questions on the type-S specialty fields, so fire alarm circuits (Article 760) and similar specialty work can appear here.
The Local Amendments questions
Five questions come from the 2025 Vermont Electrical Safety Rules and 26 V.S.A. chapter 15: Vermont's changes to the NEC (laundry GFCI within 6 feet, the 10-foot service-disconnect rule, the NM cable changes and others), what a master may do and who files an Electrical Work Notice, inspections and energizing permits, exam and renewal rules, and license exemptions. Both documents are open book on the master exam; tab them.
Practice
Our Vermont Master practice test follows this outline, and every answer cites the 2023 NEC section, Ugly's, or the Vermont rule or statute. For test-day logistics, see Vermont Master exam day.
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