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Georgia Class I Electrical Exam: Format and Pass Score

Class I is the restricted electrical contractor license, and PSI runs its exam in two four hour parts on one day. Here's the item count, the content outline, the pass mark and the books the bulletin lets you carry, all from PSI's own bulletin for this exam.

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  1. What the Class I license lets you do
  2. The format: 155 items, eight hours, two parts
  3. The content outline, area by area
  4. The pass mark is a scaled 70
  5. What you can carry in
  6. Board approval comes before the appointment
  7. If you fail
  8. What isn't published
  9. Questions people ask
  10. What this page cites

What the Class I license lets you do

Georgia doesn't license electricians. The board licenses electrical contractors, and Class I is the restricted one of the two.

Board Rule 121-3-.01 restricts a Statewide Class I Electrical Contractor license to single phase installations that don't go above 200 amperes at the service drop or the service lateral. Class II carries no such restriction.

Two official Georgia documents disagree on that number. The current rules compilation says 200 amperes. The board's own application form, revised 06-22, describes Class 2 experience as installations above single phase 400 amperes, and Augusta's local contractor sheet describes Class I as capped at 400 amperes. Ask the Division which figure it's applying before you pick a class.

The license types page sets the two classes side by side, and the contractor page covers the application itself.

The format: 155 items, eight hours, two parts

The Class I exam carries 140 scored questions plus 15 pretest questions, so you'll see 155 items in all. The pretest items aren't scored and they aren't marked, so answer everything at the same pace.

PSI administers it in two parts with eight hours allotted for both. You get four hours for Part I, then a break, then four hours for Part 2.

That's a long day. Plan the break like part of the exam rather than an afterthought, because the second half is where tired arithmetic goes wrong.

The content outline, area by area

PSI publishes the split, and it's the page in the bulletin worth reading twice. Thirty of the 140 scored questions are business and law, and 110 are technical.

Regulations, laws and administrative functions: 30 questions

Technical functions: 110 questions

Interior electrical systems is the largest single block on a Class I paper at 30 questions, and controls and devices is next at 22. The exam content page works through what sits inside each area.

The pass mark is a scaled 70

The bulletin sets the minimum passing final scaled score for each examination at 70. Board Rule 121-3-.01 says the same thing, a minimum score of seventy on the appropriate examination.

Scaled is the word to notice. Neither PSI nor the board publishes how many correct answers produce a scaled 70, so don't plan around a raw count of 98 out of 140. Aim to be comfortable rather than exactly at the line.

Scores are handed to you in print at the test center or sent by US mail. The official score report reaching the board can take up to six weeks, which is the part that delays the license rather than the result.

What you can carry in

The exam is open book in the sense that references are allowed, and closed in the sense that only the listed ones are. Anything else is removed at check in.

The list for the electrical exams is the American Electricians' Handbook 2021, 17th edition; the NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law, and Project Management for Georgia, 5th edition; the IRS Employer's Tax Guide, Circular E, 2025 or 2026; Code of Federal Regulations Title 29 Part 1926; the Georgia State Electrical 2023 National Electrical Code or the NEC Handbook; Printreading Based on 2020 NEC; and Ugly's Electrical References 2023.

References may be highlighted, underlined or tabbed with permanent tabs. Photocopies and handwritten notes aren't allowed. The book rules page goes through each item and what it's for.

Board approval comes before the appointment

You don't book this exam and then apply. The board approves your application first, and PSI schedules you after that.

The application goes through the GOALS portal, since the board no longer takes paper. It asks for four years of Primary Experience gained under a licensed electrical contractor, three notarized references with at least one from a licensed electrical contractor, a background check, and the identification and citizenship items the how to guide lists.

Once you're approved, exams run by appointment Monday through Saturday. You schedule at the Georgia contractor page on PSI's test taker site or by phone on 855-898-0711.

If you fail

A candidate who fails has to retake and pass. The bulletin sets no fixed waiting period between attempts.

Fail twice and a Board approved review course comes first. The bulletin points at Board Rule 121-2-.06, and the rules compilation carries the same requirement at 121-3-.03(1) for electrical, conditioned air, master plumber and journeyman plumber applicants who failed twice after July 1, 1989.

After you submit proof that you finished the course, another failure doesn't add another course. The retakes page has the detail.

What isn't published

Bulletin 4783 prints no exam fee. It says only that exam fees aren't refundable and that a no show means a new registration and a new fee. We'd rather say that than print a number we can't source.

It also lists no Georgia test center addresses, describing the sites as PSI test centers across the Southeast. The four Georgia addresses on our test day page come from PSI's bulletin for the sister construction division of the same board, and we label them that way.

Questions people ask

How many questions is the Georgia Class I electrical exam?

One hundred and forty scored questions plus fifteen pretest questions, so 155 items in all. The pretest questions aren't scored and aren't identified on the paper.

How long is the Class I exam?

Eight hours, split into two four hour parts with a break between them. PSI allots the eight hours for both parts together.

What score do I need to pass?

A final scaled score of 70. Board Rule 121-3-.01 sets the same minimum, and neither the board nor PSI publishes how many correct answers that works out to.

Is the Georgia Class I exam open book?

References are allowed, but only the ones on the bulletin's list, and anything else is taken at check in. The list includes the Georgia State Electrical 2023 National Electrical Code or the NEC Handbook.

How much does the Class I exam cost?

Bulletin 4783 doesn't print a fee. It says exam fees aren't refundable and that a no show requires a new registration and fee, so ask PSI or the Division for the current amount.

Can I sit the Class I exam before the board approves me?

No. Board approval comes first, and PSI schedules you afterwards. Applications go through the GOALS portal because the board no longer accepts paper.

Should I sit Class I or Class II?

Class I is restricted to single phase work at or below the amperage figure in the rule, and Class II is unrestricted. The rules say 200 amperes and the board's form says 400, so confirm with the Division before you choose.

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