Proposed

WSR 12-21-103 Washington State Register, Issue 12-21
If a candidate successfully retakes the examination without
the assistance of a reader or translator, a new certificate
will be issued without the restriction.
(5) Applicants who wish to use a foreign language dictionary
during an examination must obtain approval at the
examination site prior to the examination. Only dictionaries
without definitions will be approved for use.
Failed examination appeal procedures.
(6) Any candidate who takes an examination and does
not pass the examination may request a review of the examination.
(a) The department will not modify examination results
unless the candidate presents clear and convincing evidence
of error in the grading of the examination.
(b) The department will not consider any challenge to
examination grading unless the total of the potentially revised
score would result in a passing score.
(7) The procedure for requesting an informal review of
examination results is as follows:
(a) The request must be made in writing to the chief electrical
inspector and must be received within twenty days of
the date of the examination and must request a rescore of the
examination. The written request must include the appropriate
fees for examination review described in WAC 296-46B-
909.
(b) The following procedures apply to a review of the
results of the examination:
(i) The candidate will be allowed one hour to review
their examination.
(ii) The candidate must identify the challenged questions
of the examination and must state the specific reason(s) why
the results should be modified with multiple published reference
material supporting the candidate's position.
(iii) Within fifteen days of the candidate's review, the
department will review the examination and candidate's justification
and notify the candidate in writing of the department's
decision.
((Subjects included in administrator certificate, or master
electrician, journeyman, or specialty electrician competency
examinations.
(8) The following subjects are among those that may be
included in the examination for an administrator certificate or
electrician certificate of competency. The list is not exclusive.
The examination may also contain subjects not on the
list.
(a) For general administrators, master journeyman, and
journeyman electricians:
AC - Generator; 3-phase; meters; characteristics of;
power in AC circuits (power factor); mathematics of AC circuits.
Administration - Chapter 19.28 RCW and this chapter.
Air conditioning - Basic.
Blueprints - Surveys and plot plans; floor plans; service
and feeders; electrical symbols; elevation views; plan views.
Building wire.
Cable trays.
Calculations.
Capacitive reactance.
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Capacitor - Types; in series and parallel.
Circuits - Series; parallel; combination; basic; branch;
outside branch circuits; calculations.
Conductor - Voltage drop (line loss); grounded.
Conduit - Wiring methods.
DC - Generator; motors; construction of motors; meters.
Definitions - Electrical.
Electrical units.
Electron theory.
Fastening devices.
Fire alarms - Introduction to; initiating circuits.
Fuses.
Generation - Electrical principles of.
Grounding.
Incandescent lights.
Inductance - Introduction to; reactance.
Insulation - Of wire.
Mathematics - Square root; vectors; figuring percentages.
Motors/controls - Motors vs. generators/CEMF; single
phase; capacitor; repulsion; shaded pole; basic principles of
AC motors.
Ohm's Law.
Power.
Power factor - AC circuits; correction of; problems.
Rectifiers.
Resistance - Of wire.
Rigging.
Safety - Electrical shock.
Services.
3-wire system.
Tools.
Transformers - Principles of; types; single-phase; 3phase
connections.
Voltage polarity across a load.
Wiring methods - Conduit; general.
Wiring systems - Less than 600 volts; 480/277 volts; single-and
3-phase delta or wye; distribution systems over 600
volts.
Note: The general administrator, master journeyman, and journeyman
electrician examinations may also include the subjects
listed below for specialty electrician examinations.
(b) For specialty administrators, master specialty and
specialty electricians, the following subjects are among those
that may be included in the examination. Examination subjects
are restricted to those subjects related to the scope of
work of the specialty described in WAC 296-46B-920. The
list is not exclusive. The examination may also contain subjects
not on the list.
AC - Meters.
Administration - Chapter 19.28 RCW and this chapter.
Appliance circuits or controls.
Blueprints - Floor plans; service and feeders.
Cables - Wiring methods.
Calculations.
Circuits - Series; parallel; combination; basic; outside
branch.
Conductor - Voltage drop (line loss); grounded; aluminum
or copper.
Conduit - Wiring methods.