Electrician Exam Score Report Decoder
A failed score report is not a verdict. It is a repair map. Pick your state, score band, and weakest line. The decoder turns that into the first study block.
Last reviewed July 2026
Roughly 65-74, or one section barely missed.
Box fill, conduit fill, load work, voltage drop, motors, or tables.
TDLR Journeyman Electrician exam
Texas retake repair plan
A close miss usually means one or two sections are leaking points. This is not a full rebuild. It is a repair job. Texas is two separately scored parts. If only Calculations failed, repair calculations first. A strong NEC Knowledge result does not carry that part.
Do not restudy the whole book. That burns the time you need for the bottom two lines on the report.
First move tonight
Do not start with a full practice test. Work five calculation questions and name the rule family before touching the calculator.
Seven day repair block
- Day 1: copy the two weakest lines from the report and ignore the rest.
- Days 2-4: drill the weakest topic only. Stop after each miss and write the article or table that controls it.
- Days 5-6: add timed sets on the same topic. The goal is clean setup before speed.
- Day 7: take the diagnostic and compare the weak-area map against the score report.
Drill focus
- Box fill and conduit fill count setup
- Dwelling, feeder, service, and motor load setup
- Voltage drop formula selection and one-way distance
Official facts to keep straight
- TDLR Journeyman Electrician exam: 85 (NEC Knowledge 59 + Calculations 26), two parts scored separately
- Passing rule: 70% on each of two separately-scored parts
- Reference rule: Open book. Bring your own soft-bound NEC 2023; highlighting, notes, and publisher tabs allowed only if added before the session.
- Retake rule: Retake either failed part for $78. No mandatory wait stated.
Why this works better than restarting
A failed attempt feels like everything went wrong. Usually it did not. One or two areas drained the points. The score report is the closest thing you have to a repair ticket, so use it like one.
- The overall score tells you how it ended. The topic lines tell you what to fix.
- A close miss needs a narrow repair block, not a new textbook.
- A big miss still starts with one weak habit at a time.
- If the report is vague, the diagnostic fills in the missing detail.
Use the report, then verify with a diagnostic
The report came from the real exam. Respect it. The diagnostic gives you a fresh read on the same problem: which NEC areas are still weak, whether the miss is math setup or lookup speed, and which drill should come first.
That is the paid product path too. Do not buy a giant pile of questions. Buy only if the next weak-section drills match the problem your report and diagnostic both point to.
State pages for retakers
Want the retake rules before you set another date? Start with your state page:
Turn the report into the next drill
Run the diagnostic after you read the report. If both point to the same weak area, that is the first paid drill block.