The Test

The Supervisor’s Exam is in two parts, the first part is 52 questions that are code look-up. These questions are similar to the General and Plant Journeyman Electrician Exam. The second part is 12 questions that involve the calculations. You must get 75% or better on both parts to pass the exam. 4 hours are allowed to finish the exam. Taking a prep course will get the General Journeyman or Plant Journeyman ready and comfortable to pass this challenging exam.

The LEB, LRT, and LME license tests are 2 hours and contain 28 code look-up questions that come from the National Electrical Code (NEC), Oregon Electrical Specialty Code (OESC), Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS), and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR). To get a passing score of 75% you need to get 21 correct answers.

The Journeyman test for LEA, J, PJ, and LR are all 3 hours and have 52 code look-up questions that come from the National Electrical Code, Oregon Electrical Specialty Code, Oregon Revised Statutes, and Oregon Administrative Rules. To get a passing score of 75% you need to get 39 correct answers.

The General Supervising and Limited Supervising license test consists of two parts. The first part consists of 52 code look-up questions that come from the National Electrical Code, Oregon Electrical Specialty Code, Oregon Revised Statutes, and Oregon Administrative Rules. To get a passing score of 75% you need to get 39 correct answers. The second part of the exam is 12 questions that may be scenario-type or stand-alone-type calculation questions based on the National Electrical Code and the Oregon Electrical Specialty Code. This section also requires a 75% passing score or 9 correct answers. You must get a 75% passing score on both parts within the 4-hour time limit at the same sitting to get your license.

The Supervisor’s Training is now also offered in an ONLINE FORMAT
NOW APPROVED FOR 36 HOURS OF CE IN WASHINGTON

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If you have not applied with Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD), then Shawn can assist in filling out the application and streamlining the process. When Shawn was working at BCD, part of his duties were to approve and deny license applications. He knows what is acceptable according to the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR). It can be confusing to read the legal written language, but Shawn specialized in electrical licensing while at BCD and can help in filling out the application for all electrical license types.

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To qualify to sit for the Supervisor’s Exam, the application needs to be filled out with the required information. There are two paths in which to qualify to sit for the Supervisor’s Exam. First is to document completion of an apprenticeship and at least 8,000 hours and 4 (four) years of licensed work under a Supervising or Master Electrician as a General or Plant Journeyman. The work shall consist of at least 1,000 hours of experience in each discipline of Industrial, Commercial, and Residential. The second path allows for documentation of hours without an apprenticeship. You will need to document 24,000 hours of electrical experience under a Supervising or Master Electrician. You will need at least 2,000 hours of work in each discipline that includes Industrial, Commercial, and Residential. In both paths, the documentation needs to be verifiable.

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The Supervisor Test Prep class will give accurate and well-explained methods in which to successfully pass the General or Limited (Plant) Supervising Electrician Exam. Shawn’s approach and methodology will accurately teach the structure of calculations that the National Electrical Code (NEC) has established, and will present it to the Journey level electrician in an understandable manner. Article 220 of the NEC will be the focus for the class, but that also means other articles of the NEC will be studied, as well as other publications that are approved for the exam.

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PUBLICATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR SELF-STUDY AND APPROVED FOR THE STATE EXAM

The National Electrical Code Handbook

Oregon Electrical Specialty Code

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) chapter 479

Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) chapter 918

Keyword Index for the NEC

Ugly’s or Black Book

24 hrs. of CEU, 4 hrs. ORL, 12 hrs. CC, 8 hrs. CR