Maine journeyman electrician exam: format, NEC edition and fee
Maine's Electricians' Examining Board, in the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (OPOR), licenses journeyman electricians, and Prov runs the exam. These facts come from Prov's Maine bulletin (ME CIB 2026.11.09, last revised 9 November 2026), Prov's Maine test page and the Board's home, examinations and journeyman pages, read on 13 November 2026. Maine sets its own rules and can change them, so confirm with the Board and the bulletin before you book.
The exam in brief
- Exam: Journeyman Electrician
- Vendor: Prov
- NEC edition: 2026 (see the next section).
- Questions: 80
- Time: 180 minutes
- Passing score: 70%
- Book: open book. The 2026 NEC, the American Electrician's Handbook (17th edition), Maine Laws and Rules, and Mike Holt's Understanding Electrical Theory for NEC Applications (2022) are all marked open book. Permanent tabs are allowed, repositionable tabs and handwritten notes are not, highlighting and underlining must be in pen, and you cannot mark a book during the exam.
- Where you test: Prov's testing centers in Auburn, Bangor and Presque Isle, any Prov center in the United States, or from home through Prov's remote proctoring.
- Fee: $90, paid to Prov.
- Route: the Board says you must send it an examination application and receive its approval before you sit the exam, and scores from an exam taken without approval are void. Once you are approved, the Board emails an approval notice with the steps to schedule. The Board lists four routes to the exam, each pairing supervised work hours (4,000 to 8,000, depending on your schooling and apprenticeship) with at least a 45-hour course on the current NEC.
- License fee: $150 for a two-year journeyman license, plus a $21 SBI report fee.
- Retakes: no limit on attempts, with 1 day between them.
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The 2026 NEC
Maine's bulletin lists only the 2026 NEC for the journeyman exam. The Board has adopted the 2026 NEC through its Chapter 120 rule for electrical installations started on or after 1 July 2026. Our course is written to the 2023 NEC. Most skills carry over, but article and section numbers can move between editions, so check each lookup in your 2026 book. For how to use 2023 practice material when your exam is on the 2026 NEC, see our 2023 vs 2026 NEC post, written for Texas candidates, whose exam also moved to the 2026 edition. Colorado is the other state in our set that tests the 2026 NEC.
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What it covers
The bulletin lists ten areas by item count: General Electrical Theory and Principles 10, Wiring and Protection 16, Service Feeders and Branch Circuits 5, Wiring Methods and Materials 12, Motors and Controls 11, Equipment for General Use 12, Special Occupancies 5, Special Equipment 5, Special Conditions 2 and Communication Systems 2. There is no law and rules area, though Maine Laws and Rules is on the open-book list. Motors and controls carries 11 items, as Kentucky's exam does, against 7 in our 100-question outline. Each area falls into one or more of the twelve in our journeyman exam outline.
How our practice exam fits
Our practice exam is written to the 2023 NEC, one edition older than Maine's. It is 100 questions in 240 minutes, about 2.4 minutes a question, against Maine's 80 in 180, or 2.25 minutes a question, so pick up your pace a little for exam day. Like Maine's journeyman exam, ours has no law and rules section. Work extra motor circuit problems for Maine's 11 motors and controls items. It is not Maine's exam. See the journeyman exam guide for how other states compare.
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Sources
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- Maine Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation candidate information bulletin, Prov, ME CIB 2026.11.09, effective 31 Oct 2026, last revised 9 Nov 2026. Retrieved 13 Nov 2026.
- Maine Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation examinations, Prov. Retrieved 13 Nov 2026.
- Electricians' Examining Board, OPOR, with the Chapter 120 notice. Retrieved 13 Nov 2026.
- Electricians' Examining Board examinations, OPOR. Retrieved 13 Nov 2026.
- Journeyman Electrician, Electricians' Examining Board, OPOR. Retrieved 13 Nov 2026.
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