west virginia jourymans test? - Electrician Talk - Professional Electrical Contractors Forum

modified electric · 11-13-2009, 06:31 PM

I am taking the test next month codes are no prob for me the only thing I am worried about is the calculations can any one help me and tell me what type of questions they are to help me study better

sparkie2010 · 11-13-2009, 07:16 PM

Look into Tom Henry calculation book, Ohm Law book and transformer book.

paul d. · 11-13-2009, 07:16 PM

Good Luck !!!!!!! ( really ) let us know how it goes

Zog · 11-13-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sparkie2010

Look into Tom Henry calculation book, Ohm Law book and transformer book.

There is a whole book on Ohms Law? Geez, just write it on the bottom of your shoe.

rdr · 11-13-2009, 09:03 PM

haha E=I/R everything else can come off that. Never can memorize all the power ones though

sparkie2010 · 11-13-2009, 09:27 PM

lol, however it also has voltage drop calc

Magnettica · 11-14-2009, 11:04 AM

Calculations = box fill, conduit fill, dwelling/non-dwelling load calculations, derating conductors, motors, ampacity, parallel conductors, and electric oven cooking equipment.

Just a small portion of the journeymen's examination.

cobra50 · 11-14-2009, 11:12 AM

Annex D is a good place to start.

nolabama · 11-14-2009, 12:23 PM

I just took the ICC journeyman test, admind my parsons view. It had very few true calculations on it. It did however have the box fill and the ohms law calcs. It did also have a noodle feeder size calc.

wvwirenut · 11-20-2009, 03:07 PM

It's been a long time since I took it ('95), but there were only 5 calculations. Resi loads, and wire sizing were the ones I remember.

You may want to call American Contractors Exam Services.

modified electric · 12-07-2009, 07:01 AM

well I test in a hour or so.

brian john · 12-07-2009, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by modified electric

well I test in a hour or so.

Good Luck, were are you testing at?

modified electric · 12-07-2009, 02:10 PM

I tested in Martinsburg

brian john · 12-07-2009, 03:46 PM

That's were I took my test at a VOTECH school. Was a long hard test.

wildleg · 12-07-2009, 03:51 PM

west virginia has a test ? when did they start doing inspections ?

brian john · 12-07-2009, 06:10 PM

I took the second round of testing in West VA, I want to say late 80's early 90's.

modified electric · 12-07-2009, 07:10 PM

it was a fairly easy test the virginia test is harder. from what I have been told

brian john · 12-07-2009, 08:35 PM

We must have taken different test I thought the VA test was a cake walk, nothing to it. The West VA test I took was 75% fire alarm questions. Something I NEVER work on.

modified electric · 12-08-2009, 09:40 AM

not a single fire n the whole alarm ? o the test

ricoreece1 · 12-08-2009, 12:40 PM

I recently took the Oklahoma jman test. If its psi it might be the same format... if its not a masters there was hardly any true calculations in it, even tho it says calculations, it was nothing that required me to do alot of math. With that said, the most important thing was speed. Using the glossary is KEY, but use the page numbers and flick through the bottom. Itll help your speed. Try not to go by the code references like 340.17, they're a little slower to find. And the glossary gets pretty detailed on the sections, be ready to use it to target the area the question is asking.

And also check out mike holts website. He has videos over commercial calcs, motor calcs, fill calcs, etc. almost everykind dealing with electricians. I watched a good part of relevent videos from his site and knew how to do about every calculation in the code book by the time I was ready to take the test. I maybe used the knowledge I gained from it 2 or 3 times.