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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Master of the Neez podcast, the ultimate

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destination for anyone passionate about the electrical trade.

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Speaker 2: Whether you're a season electrician and eager apprentice, or.

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Speaker 1: Just someone who wants to dive deep into the world

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of electrical work, You've come to the right place.

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Speaker 2: Join your host, Paul.

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Speaker 1: Abernaviy, a true authority in the industry with over thirty

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eight years of trade experience as he electrifized your mind

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with in depth discussions, expertips, and valuable insights that.

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Speaker 2: Will keep you ahead of the curve.

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Speaker 1: Each episode, Paul will illuminate the complexities of the trade

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de code, the National Electrical Code, and share the latest

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industry trends, all while empowering you to take your electrical

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career to the next level.

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Speaker 2: So hear up, plug in, and get ready to supercharge.

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Speaker 1: Your knowledge because with the Master of the Neez podcast,

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the power is in your hands.

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Speaker 2: Now get ready. Here is your host? What up?

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Speaker 3: Everybody? Welcome to another episode a Master the nec podcast.

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My name is Paul Abernathy, your host. As always, I

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want to thank you for joining me on the podcast.

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However you're listening to the podcast, whether it's on Spotify, Spreaker, Deezer, iHeartRadio,

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Apple Podcast, Google podcast. Gosh, there's so many ways that

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you can listen to a podcast these days. You can

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even listen from our mobile app, which is free over

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on fasttrackssystem dot com. You can listen over there for free,

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just download the free app. There's a bunch of other

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tools there, blog, access, message board, all this good stuff

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over there if you just want to gain more knowledge

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about the National Electrical Code and just make you a

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better electrician all around, and share it with your friends.

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But thanks for joining me for this podcast. Today's podcast,

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we're gonna talk a little bit about mastering the Electric Exam.

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It's basically what every future electrician must know when you're

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preparing to take an electoral exam. So we're going to

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cover a bunch of topics today. And of course, there

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is no better way to learn the NEC than getting

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a true program that's designed to be give you the

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basics right, take you from point A to point B.

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And there is no better program than our fast Tracks program.

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It's a trademarked program. It's available on our website. The

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link will be down into the description. If you really

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want to learn the NEC, you want to reduce the

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amount of time that you spend flipping through the codebook

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and just get better at it. I mean, let's face it,

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if you're an electrician or inspiring to be one, you

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really need to know the a NEEC. Everything you do

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is based around the ANEC. Yes, you know how to

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pull cable, install conductors and raceways, bend raceways. Yeah, but

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you need to understand why you do it. And that's

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what we develop the fast Tracks programs for. Whether you're

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exam prep or you just want to get better knowledge,

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we have courses for you as well as grounding and bonding.

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Check that out over on fast tracks System. That's t

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R A X by the way, fast tracks system dot com.

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Check it out. All right, So let's get started a

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little bit today. In this episode, we're going to talk

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about the importance of a structured program, how it has

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to be engaging, and then again the focus on not

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only the visual means good illustrations we're necessary, but also

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just kind of things that help you truly understand the

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NEC better and again break it down. You want a

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course that breaks it down. So it's easy because the

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National Electrical Code is is not an easy document to

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understand it can be complicated. OK, So we're going to

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set the tone. We're going to be kind of trying

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to get you informed, and it's we're gonna you know,

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the goal here is for apprentices and journeymans who journeyman

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electricians or apprentice electricians or even helpers that are going

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to be preparing to take their electrical exam. Now, first thing,

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it is very daunting to understand the process of getting

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your exam. But in most states, you know, the first

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thing you'll need to do is make sure you get

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your hours. You've got to put the time in and

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in many states you have to have formal training, so

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it may be two hundred and forty hours of vocational training.

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to sign off that they instructed you for a period

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of time. So you really need to look at your

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state licensing board and find out what you need to do.

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be the first thing you really do when you get

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in this trade is set your roadmap. Where do I

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really focused and people forget about this. You want to

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be an electrician, you want to be a professional at

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this trade. You need to start getting used to keeping

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records and taking notes and get you I always had

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to get this many hours, then I'm going to be

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recording my hours. Whether I keep a paycheck stub that

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shows it and keep it in a folder, whatever you

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start keeping track of these things and don't assume that

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other people will keep track of that for you. Especially

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in your career where you may be an apprentice or

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would be with your own information. Okay, so it's very

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important now in today's episode, we'll also remove some myths

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to build your confidence a little bit in how you

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should structure your learning process so you're really not wasting

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time because again you're going to start out as a

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helper or apprentice. You're not going to be making the

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money that you like to make eventually, and I get it,

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we want to always make more, but you need to

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work from A to B to see. You need to

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work through it and gain the experience to knowledge that

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does move you up the ladder so that you can

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get a higher pay, But you have to start somewhere.

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want to be an electrician or whatever, and they think

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they can just leave from one career career and jump

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into electrical and make the same they made in another career.

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to be talking about that. So it's for you apprentices,

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it's for you journeymans, it's for you masters who may

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be taking tests in multiple states, and you have a

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master's exam you're going to have to take in multiple

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state or these for the company in these various states. Also,

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we do a lot of training for electrical inspectors because

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more on using the residential Building Code with the electrical

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portion in there of the module. But I tell people

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ignore that and still just learn the NEC. It's going

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the E two, which is commercial, you will not be

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it throws on top of it a little bit about

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the plans review. So you just got to be used

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schedule is, how to look up the circuit, how to

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tell where it's at, how to look at a symbol

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that's on the drawings and what that symbol means, like

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maybe looking at a disconnect and seeing what its frame

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or whether or not it has overcurrent protection at all.

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to do. So no, if you can read the codebook,

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you can pass the exam. Okay, today we'll just kind

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of talk about how you do it. Now, a couple

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talking points why people fail on an electric exam. Well,

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Number one, they don't understand the question structure. Now in

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our programs, and you've heard me talk about this on

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my podcasts, and I've been talking about this for decades now,

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you have to understand how to structurally read a question

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and understand it may give you a paragraph of information,

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but there's only one sentence in there that means anything.

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not trying to do this to trick you. It is

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all about comprehension and being able to read it the

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question and dissect what it's asking. Now, it's simple to

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say that when you're in school and you're doing these

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SATs and you're doing these exams in school, one of

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you questions and you have to try to figure out

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what the topic is. This is no different, This is

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no different, but it's electrical and it's tough jargon in

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the neec Okay, it's very technical, and so you have

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to get familiar with breaking it down. How do you

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need to take your questions. For example, in our program

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give you over eight hundred plus questions. Plus of course

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you get competency questions, but there's a certain number of

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practice exams that we tell you do not time yourself.

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go over that question, even if it takes you twenty

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minutes and people say, oh no, don't do that, you'll

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run out of time. You're not preparing for the exam yet,

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you're gaining your knowledge. But what you're doing is look

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for every possible term that's in that question that could

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lead you to the table of contents or to the index,

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or cross referencing or certain terminologies that they use that

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start finding multiple ways to dissect a question to get

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in different locations in the nec but give you the

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same answer, then that's called dissecting a question. And again,

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I've been preaching this for decades and it's just now

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people are starting to understand that. That's why they call

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me the Godfather of instructured exam prep because I've been

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talking about this stuff forever and younger guys that learned

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and are now starting to incorporate that in their teaching style.

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And you're welcome, because I've been doing it forever, because

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it is the proper way to study. Now. One of

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the things that I also tell people is one of

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the big problems that folks have, and this is why

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those crash course things that you do on weekends. You know,

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people say, hey, take this two day course before you're

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exam and you'll be fine, and then ultimately, sadly, I

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get tons of calls from people that fail and they

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want to know. Look, I paid eight nine thousand dollars

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for this crash course. They told me that I could

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get a guarantee I could come back and take it again,

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and that's great, but at the end of the day,

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you're wasting a lot of time and to guarantee is

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not going to get your money back. There is fine

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print to all those things out there that say you'll

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get your money back. There is fine print. Okay, I'm

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just telling you don't believe everything you read because if

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you dig into the fine print, basically it says, well,

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you're free to take the course again until you pass

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that type of thing. Okay, nobody's going to let you

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take an exam and then you fail and say I

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want my money back after they've invested time in you. Okay,

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it's not how it works. However, the ultimate goal is

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what the ultimate goal is for you to pass the exam, right,

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there's people out there that are on Instagram. They put

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these videos out there and they say that you don't

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need to memorize the code. You don't. You really don't

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need to memorize the code at all.

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anything to be successful. What you have to understand how

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do I navigate it? How do I look things up?

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fundamental key, is how do I move through this book?

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How can I look at a question and start to

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understand the logic of how I find the answer? Now,

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this is the difference between flipping through a cobol and again,

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some of this is going to sound like a commercial,

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but I can't help it. We develop the fast Tracks

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program because of this, whether you're preparing for an exam

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or you just want to get better out in the field,

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want to be more knowledgeable, fail less inspections, things like that.

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Is that you really have to understand that we feed

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you the content in our program from nineteen units and

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so subconsciously you're going to remember a lot of things

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in our program because that's just the way it is.

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Because what we do is we give you these little chevrons, right,

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we give you the code reference, you go look it

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up in the code, come back to the lesson. The

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lesson you'll get another chef run send you to the code.

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So you're going back and forth, back and forth with

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a structured plan, not just a free willy type of

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plan where you're just going from here. Then I'll think, well,

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I'll assume they'll last me something about motors, so I'll

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go to four thirty. Or they'll soon they'll last me

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something about it, so I'll go, No, it is there is.

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There is a rhyme and reason why we do it

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the way we do it in our programs. I can't

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speak for everybody else. I can only tell you that's

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why we do it the way we do it. And

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in along that journey, if you're in like our enhanced program,

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you also can go over to the fast tracks tube

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and watch a related video that may hammer home an

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important concept. And all of that helps you maintain and

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it makes it a little easier for you to remember

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some of those key things. Like I said, you don't

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need to remember the whole code, it's unnecessar if you've

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got your codebook with you. But what you will realize

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is that these these exams are timed, so even though

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you may be really good at navigation, it's still timed

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so it does behoove you to understand certain elements that

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are just you just know it by heart because you've

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done it over again. You followed the structured plan, so

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you know that two tens brand circuits two fifteen or

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feet or two twenty five or outside branch circuits and feeders.

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two fift you get it. And you understand the two

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foot four foot rule or the six foot twelve foot

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rule and two ten point fifty two. You understand these

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things because you do it every day, but now you're

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learning this is why I do it. And those kind

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of things will last in your memory because you just

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do them repetitively. There's the little nuances that are in

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the code that are usually low hanging fruit for an

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electrical exam that you're not going to necessarily do every day,

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and so we try to spoon feed those things to

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you over and over, and then we test you with

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competency reviews, and we change the test the questions a

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little bit so they're not exactly what you went over

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in the lesson. We don't want to do that. That's that

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that that that would be cheating. We want to make

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the competency reviews tough, so you have to read them

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very carefully. Right. But so again, like I tell people

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navigation and understanding, you don't have to commit things to memory.

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But the more that of the basic stuff that you

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can commit the memory, it's going to reduce the time

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you're in there on the exam and it's just overall

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going to help you move through it much quicker. Plus

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it's going to help you in the field. And we

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teach it that way. But no, you don't have to

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memorize the entire in NEEC to be successful on an

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exam or in the field. Now that's why your codebook's there. Now,

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there's also an element where you may be weak in

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your fundamentals. Okay, and we're talking fundamentals like understanding Owms law.

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And there may be only one or two questions on

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an exam that has to do with Ohms law or

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Watt's law or something like that. Well, you certainly don't

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want to get them wrong. If you can help it.

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Maybe there's something on series or parallel circuits. And again

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it's not going to be overcomplicated, but little things. You know,

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you want to get those little ones, okay, but it's

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not the end of the world. But the other fundamentals

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that you need to understand is you really need to

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understand the concept of conductor sizing, and conductor sizing is

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one of the most confusing things in the National Electrical Code.

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I mean, if you've got a good grasp of understanding

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three ten sixteen in the opacity tables, and you understand

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how three ten fifteen B one one and three ten

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fifteen C one work when it comes to more than

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three current current conductors, or if you have ten current

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current conductors, or or if you're dealing with an ambient

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temperature other than thirty degrees celsius eighty six excrease fahrenheit,

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what do you do? How do you do this if

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you don't understand the eighty three percent rule that we

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have in three ten dot twelve. And again it's not

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an exception, that's a rule it's permissible to use. If

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you don't understand those things when it comes to conductor

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sizing and understanding one ten dot fourteen, when it comes

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to terminal and temperature limitations, then that is fundamentally a

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large part of a lot of exams as well as

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in the field, picking the wrong size conductor because you

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didn't do a proper adjustment of correction can ruin the day.

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I'm just saying. Also, load calculations on electrical exams, they're

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not typically going to ask you to do the load

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calculation for an entire building or house or commercial building

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or anything. What they're going to ask you is any

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potential component. Like they may ask you something about the appliances,

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and you need to understand its standard method. If you

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have four or more, then you're going to have a

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demand factor that you can apply. If you're doing the

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optional method, you're taking name plate and the demand is

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figured into the entire equation. So critically important for you

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to nail those things down. Now. In our program, we

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give you these print out sheets that you can print

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them out and you use them. They're like templates. And

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you use these templates not because it's like, well, why

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do I want a template, I'm cheating? No, no, no,

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no no. The templates are there in order to explain

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these steps so that if any exam question comes up

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that asks you any of the steps, whether it's for appliances,

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whether it's for dealing with the general use in general

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lighting application, or whether or not it's talking about.

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Speaker 2: Ranges or dryers.

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Speaker 3: You understand fully how to do each piece of it

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because in the real world you got to do at all.

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But on an exam, very rarely do they ask a

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full load calc. Now, somebody's gonna immediately reply to this

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podcast and go, oh, in my state they make you

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do a four story building. What okay, that is the

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exception to the general rule. How do I know this

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because I've served on these committees that write the questions

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for exams and just not how we write a question

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That is not what we're trying to do. And you're

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going to drive yourself crazy if you try to study

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that way. You really are. So that's not just learn

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the basics and the fundamentals. Okay. The other thing is

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fear of time. You've got a three hour or four

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hour deadline. There is a process that we call the

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three way method that you can listen to over on

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fast tracks Tube. We talk you through the best way

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to go through an exam. It is literally not bring surgery,

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but it is going to yield the best chance. So

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go to fast tracks tube. That's fast tracks trxtube dot com.

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Search for three wave or three wave method. If you're

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a subscriber, you should be able to find it with

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no problem. Watch that because that is how you should

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tackle a timed exam exactly that way. There's another thing

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that I get from people is the anxiety. Okay, why

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people fail is they're overstressed out about an exam. Don't

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be don't worry about anything that you think is a

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trick question. Don't let that little thing get in your

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head because every question is solvable, so it's, in theory,

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not a trick question. It's just a difficult question. But

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don't dwell on it. Because when I get calls from

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people who say, hey, Paul, I failed my exam by

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one point, and I'm like, okay, so the passing score

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was seventy you got a sixty nine. It was one

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hundred questions, they go yes, I'm like, do you realize it?

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In my world, you actually fill thirty one questions short,

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and there is a plethora of potential questions in there

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that you could have gotten right and passed. But in

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their mind they're focusing on one thing. They're like, oh,

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if I just had gotten that motor question right, or

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if I just had got this stop. That is not

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the way to target it. That is not the way

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to think. Okay, you blew it by way more than

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one point. Yeah, I get it. One more you would

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have got your license, Okay, But the reality is you've

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already failed. That is not the mentality you need to take.

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The mentality is that you're saying, look, when I take

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this test again, this is not even going to be

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in the equation because I'm going for the record. And

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it's a mental approach to how you study. And so

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many people don't do it that way, and they just

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go flipping through a codebook and they think that's not

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Some people pass, and then they'll go out there on

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social media and say I didn't have to study. Not

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everybody's created equal. When is everybody going to get that?

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When are these people out there on social media say

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this is what I did and you don't need to

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Not everybody is created equal. And I have taught over

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eighty thousand students how to pass exams, and they've all

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been different. I've worked with students who struggle and some

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that just get it right away. Everybody's different. And the

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instructor who can't realize that is not worthy of you

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giving them a dime, okay, because you have to develop

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a program that's going to be appealing to masses of

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different levels of technical skill or understanding or comprehension. And

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that's what we tried to do. And again, if I

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can give one thing back to the industry, it's like

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change how you teach, okay. And then at the end

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of the day, it's the lack of practice with the

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real nec And that's why we give you all these

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competency reviews in our program to test your knowledge before

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you should move on to the next unit. If you

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really bond that you need to go back into the

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unit that you're working on because there's something you didn't comprehend.

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And of course, in our program, we have a feature

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called fast Tracks Interact, which means that you're never alone.

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It means that you can ask us questions at any

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time in the program and copy and paste the question

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in there, whatever screen, capture it on your computer and

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paste it in there, whatever you want to do, and

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we will explain it to you. Nobody else does that,

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but I believe in your success. So that's why I

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created this fast tracks system. And that's what it is.

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It's not just a code exam, a code prep course.

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It's an entire system with the interactive features, the video

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backing it up, the everything together. That's what we bring. Okay.

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Now the next thing we think is your blueprint. How

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do we develop a blueprint for your success? Okay? So

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how the exam isn't testing your memory, it's really testing

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your ability to find answers fast and over time. If

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you do like I say, and you use a lot

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of the practice questions for dissection, take your time, use

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them to try to find the answers many ways, then

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it's only going to make you better. Okay. The NEC

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is just a reference manual, it's a reference document. The

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better you are with moving through it, the better you're

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going to be. There are certain things, like I said,

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that you're going to commit to memory because you do

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them every day. But you're certainly not going to do

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everything that's in that codebook. And you're going to be

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testing on things that you may never touch. You may

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have never done EV okay, but you might get a

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question on EV and so at the end of the day,

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you need to know where to go. And so that's

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why you're studying, So get used to scanning the articles

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and we cover that. Know the layout of the code.

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Like I said, it's so fundamental to understand that chapters

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one through four are mandatory rules that apply throughout the NEC,

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but they can be supplemented and modified in chapters five

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through seven. If you're in the twenty twenty three, if

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you're in the twenty twenty sixth edition, in you're studying

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when that comes out or when we produce a course

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for that, or if you're just studying in general and

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your exams on the twenty twenty six, then it's going

477
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,480
to be the same. But chapters five through eight can

478
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,799
supplement or modify anything in chapters one through eight, So

479
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,680
a little bit of a change there for the twenty

480
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:47,519
twenty six makes sense. But it just takes discipline and

481
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,319
learn how to use that index and the only way

482
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,319
you're going to get better at navigating. And I tell

483
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,039
people all the time, they've watched me on some of

484
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,319
my videos where I can spend ten minutes in the index.

485
00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:01,160
Why do I do that? Because I want to learn.

486
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,559
My mind is being trained to know what's in there

487
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:07,119
and what's not in there, So I know not to

488
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,559
go here for something because I'm just going down a

489
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,799
rabbit hole. You'll get better as you do it. You'll

490
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:19,079
just get better in it. Okay, now the core concepts.

491
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,640
Every test taker, you must master these things. And we're

492
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,160
going to focus on six pillars that show up on

493
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,519
generally every exam. And I say generally you're going to

494
00:27:31,559 --> 00:27:35,119
get some OHMS law questions maybe one or two or three,

495
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,559
but they do show up on exams. And you need

496
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,039
to understand OWMS law. It's not brain surgery. If you

497
00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:43,359
can write down, if they let you write things on

498
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,359
scratch paper. The first thing you do when you sit

499
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,119
down is do your OWMS wheel. Do your power wheel.

500
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,519
The best you can get you set and a lot

501
00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:52,680
of states give it to you, like Texas, they'll give

502
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,319
you an OHMS wheel or power wheel. So, but just

503
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,839
understand how to do it. You really need to understand

504
00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:03,720
conductor apacities, folks, whether it's feeders or brand circuits, whatever,

505
00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:06,640
you need to understand three ten sixteen opacities. You need

506
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,319
to understand the adjustments and corrections in three ten fifteen

507
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,880
B one one and three ten fifteen C. You need

508
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,240
to understand that you need to understand three ten dot

509
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,720
twelve when it comes to the eighty three percent rule

510
00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:21,559
and when you can apply it and when you can't.

511
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:29,039
Okay fundamental things. And in our fast Tracks Tube video platform,

512
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,680
we have a program called d Rating Demystified and it's

513
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,680
part three. Version three is out now and we're working

514
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,480
on version four for the twenty twenty six edition. But

515
00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:45,279
it's the same principles. It walks you through how to

516
00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:49,799
do adjustment and corrections properly, really does, and so that's

517
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,839
important for you to check that out. Next is box

518
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,279
field colcs. Just make sure you understand you have a

519
00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:02,799
firm grip on box Field, whether it's one or two questions. Again,

520
00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:06,960
if many of you are focusing on just passing missing

521
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,680
any one of these, which you should be able to

522
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,519
study properly for is like throwing away a question. These

523
00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:18,519
should be no brainers. It's the awful wall ones that

524
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,119
should be giving you trouble, but these should be something

525
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,480
that you study. In our program, we have an extensive

526
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:29,359
unit that talks about Boxville, goes over all the details

527
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:34,200
about Boxville with the devices, the conductors, all those type

528
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:39,240
of things, connectors, clamps, all this is covered in detail

529
00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:42,559
with examples and illustrations. Of course you got fast tracks

530
00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:44,640
interact if you want to ask a question. But it's

531
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:51,319
all pretty straightforward, but it's important that you do understand it.

532
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,079
And of course you use this every day out in

533
00:29:53,119 --> 00:29:57,839
the field, so you might realize, oh crap, I'm actually

534
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,839
violating Boxville out in the field. And it's never really

535
00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:03,160
brought it up because they're not going to really stop

536
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,200
and look in every box. But you need to understand

537
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,960
how to do it. Whether it's for the exam or

538
00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:09,960
even in real life, you need to understand box fill.

539
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,759
Whether you agree with it or not. Whether you think, ah,

540
00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:13,960
what the hell's one more conductor in a bout, it

541
00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:19,279
doesn't matter. You underst need to understand it. Also, service

542
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:23,039
and feeder load calculations Article two twenty. You need to

543
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,359
understand how part two, Part three, and Part four fundamentally work.

544
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,079
Whether it's the standard method we call it or the

545
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,880
optional method in part four, you need to understand how

546
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,519
they work. And we cover this extensively in our program.

547
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,359
And you NIT eight eleven and thirteen, and we give

548
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,680
you those little handouts as well that you can print out.

549
00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:44,759
You can get them laminated. You can use a dry

550
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,519
race pin and use it over and over and over

551
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,079
and even come up with some fake scenarios. Just kind

552
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,960
of drow out a dwelling and put all these things

553
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:54,519
in it that you would want to put you maybe

554
00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:57,319
your dream home, and then do the calculation on it.

555
00:30:57,359 --> 00:30:59,720
It's only going to make you better. But the key

556
00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:02,640
thing is know how to do the calculation to the

557
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,960
point where if you get asked any single element, you

558
00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:11,640
know how to calculate it out. That's it. Understand that

559
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:15,599
the next is the equipment grounding and bonding shows up

560
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,319
a lot on exams. Make sure you understand grounding, electrode

561
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:24,440
conductor sizing sixty six, make sure you understand different things

562
00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:28,799
about the electrodes and two fifty two, and then of

563
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:34,519
course bonding requirements. It's important for the NEC that when

564
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:38,720
you're thinking about Article two fifty understand fundamentals, whether it's

565
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:41,880
sizing of a supply side bonding jumper, a load side

566
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:49,240
bonding jumper, okay, a main bonding jumper, a system bonding jumper, again,

567
00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:52,400
equipment bonding jumper. I might have said that equipment grounding conductor.

568
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,599
I probably already said that all these things are fundamental

569
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,039
that you should go through now our course will systematically

570
00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,839
give those to you, but if you're studying without a course,

571
00:32:06,079 --> 00:32:08,759
you still need to create some structure. These are there

572
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,839
important things to focus on, okay, because that is the

573
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,759
important stuff that's usually going to be on an exam.

574
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,319
Understanding that you could still get some obscure question is

575
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,599
grounding and bonding driven. But if you start out by

576
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,519
focusing on the important low hanging fruit aspects that typically

577
00:32:29,559 --> 00:32:33,000
show up on exams, then you have a higher probability

578
00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:35,839
of success. And as you're looking for these things, you'll

579
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,759
stumble across the other questions that get asked from time

580
00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:42,279
to time about grinding and bonding. Of course, we do

581
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,880
make a course on grounding and bonding, which I helped

582
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,160
co write originally actually for the twenty twenty three edition.

583
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:51,759
I did not for the twenty twenty six one. There's

584
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:55,599
a books out there, but our program is based on

585
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,640
the twenty twenty three and I had a hand in

586
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,559
writing that book, and so check it out on our website.

587
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,880
It's a great and it doesn't expire, so you can

588
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,839
keep it and it's a good reference down the road.

589
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,319
If you have a grounding and bonding question, you're like, ah, crap.

590
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,160
Do I use a bonding bushing Do I use a

591
00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:14,359
can I use a bonding wedge or bonding locknut? Can

592
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,880
I all these type of things? How do I size

593
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,680
the supply side bonding jumper? What about if I want

594
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,680
to do a daisy chain versus individual connections to each raceway,

595
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,880
then you can open this app. You can open it

596
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,680
up in your on your phone, go right into your

597
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,000
course and boom, it's in logical flow. We follow the

598
00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:33,519
NEC's flow when it comes to the course. Okay, so

599
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,440
that means from two fifty dot four to eighty two

600
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,799
logical flow, So you can look things up easily and well,

601
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,559
we sell a lot of our courses on grounding and bonding,

602
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,839
So that's just a good long term resource for you.

603
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,599
If you're interested, check it out. And then of course

604
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,160
Raceway phil make sure you understand the fundamentals of raceway

605
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,759
fil calculations, how to use chapter nine tables one, two, three,

606
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,000
or make sure you understand all of those aspects of

607
00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:04,480
how to do it. And of course we have a

608
00:34:04,759 --> 00:34:08,559
great video of that. We we cover this in detail

609
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,639
in our program. But if you're study, if you're studying

610
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,159
and you don't have a structured program and you're saying, well,

611
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,960
I just don't know what to study. Well, I'm giving

612
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,360
you those tips exactly how to do your own self

613
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,800
structured study. We just make it easier for you. And

614
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:25,719
easier means you spend less time on it, and it's

615
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,239
a it's a you know, a better investment of your time. Okay,

616
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,559
so you're not wasting time. But again you can do this.

617
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,079
Understand what NXC means, and that is just for the

618
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:39,880
number of conductors I can put in there and not

619
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,639
exceed the raceway. Phil. It has absolutely no nothing to

620
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,480
do with adjustment and corrections. That's a totally different thing

621
00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:50,079
that you have to take into consideration. The chapter nine

622
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,320
that the well, the informative ANXC is just telling me

623
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,639
how many conductors can I put in a raceway and

624
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,119
not exceed the percentage? Fil. That's all it does, right.

625
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,679
It doesn't account for oh I can put that many

626
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,519
in there, well, yes, and not exceed raiseway Phil. But

627
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,039
what is the opacity of those conductors in there? When

628
00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:12,920
you start bundling them all in there? Then it could

629
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,960
be nothing is as pointless to do it. So you

630
00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:20,440
need to understand why you can use anexc but why

631
00:35:20,559 --> 00:35:23,280
you still have to take into consideration other aspects of

632
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,920
the code like a like an adjustment of corrections. Okay,

633
00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:32,639
important things. Okay, Now, there are some speed techniques that

634
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,920
you can do to help you prepare for the exam

635
00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:37,920
as you're studying. As you're going through the codebook, a

636
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:41,280
lot of students will everything that we reference in the

637
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,920
course with chevrons. They instead of just going willy nilly

638
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,840
and start highlighting everything, and then it becomes more confusing

639
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,079
if you're able to highlighten your codebooks. So some states

640
00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:56,000
allow you to, some states don't. That's your responsibility to

641
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:58,400
determine whether or not your state will allow it. So

642
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,280
you need to get with the state testing whoever's doing

643
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,960
the testing, whether it's PSI or what have you, and

644
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,760
they have a bulletin out le's go to their website

645
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,639
and look and see what you can and what you

646
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,000
can't do in your codebook. Some codebooks you can't do anything.

647
00:36:14,119 --> 00:36:16,599
Some you can underline, some you can highlight, some you

648
00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:20,639
can even make notes in. Okay, but you need to

649
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,800
determine that. But when you highlight, you don't want to

650
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,280
go crazy because it negates the benefit of highlighting. But

651
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:32,400
some people have learned that when we do a chevron

652
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:35,079
or we call out something, then when you go to

653
00:36:35,159 --> 00:36:37,840
the code to read it, that is what you highlight

654
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,480
and only that as we lead you through the nineteen units,

655
00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:49,679
so you're only highlighting things that we reference. Okay, trusts me, folks.

656
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,639
Things are done for a reason, and I don't you know,

657
00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:55,559
rather than go into the details of how we came

658
00:36:55,639 --> 00:36:58,320
up with it, that way, that's just the way it is,

659
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:01,239
and you need to trust it it. Okay. It's kind

660
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,840
of like the stock market. I hate it. I hate

661
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,719
the stock market. I hate having money in the stock

662
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,360
market because it goes up and down, up and down.

663
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,519
But you've got to trust in it. Over the long haul,

664
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:16,039
it has been up. So same thing here. Trust in

665
00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:17,920
what we do in our program. We're doing it for

666
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:24,239
a reason. Okay. Also, why you don't need to highlight

667
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,519
everything again, like I said, is because it's going to

668
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:31,440
draw your mind away from an important thing. Okay. Next,

669
00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:36,079
I'll remind you again one of the biggest things that

670
00:37:36,159 --> 00:37:40,079
can help you or speed techniques is to practice our

671
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,920
three wave method technique, and that is basically in a nutshell,

672
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,000
is when you first sit down for your exam, you're

673
00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:51,000
going to go through and answer everything you know right

674
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:54,239
away in less than a minute. If you don't know

675
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:55,880
it and it's over a minute and you kind of

676
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,519
you don't have to sit there and keep looking at

677
00:37:57,559 --> 00:37:59,639
the clock because trust me, it's going to be ticking away.

678
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,599
You'll get that anxiety in you when you spent too long. Okay,

679
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,960
it's at that mental internal clock that says, okay, I dude, nowhere.

680
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,840
I've been sitting this for a little bit and I'm nowhere.

681
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,840
But don't go into this analysis by paralysis or is

682
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,159
it the other way around, it's paralysis by analysis. Yeah,

683
00:38:18,199 --> 00:38:21,679
don't get into that, okay where you end up next thing?

684
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,880
You know, five minutes is gone and you're on one question.

685
00:38:24,599 --> 00:38:28,840
Do not do that. You'd say death sentence for your exam, folks,

686
00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:33,360
death sentence. So you just mark it electronically, or if

687
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,559
you're taking a written test, just right down on your

688
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:38,239
scratch paper what question it is and circle it and

689
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,039
then go on to the next one so you can

690
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:42,199
come back to those questions you have written down later

691
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,960
in the next wave. But that first wave, move through,

692
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:47,199
answer what you can in less than a minute, move on,

693
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:50,400
hopefully answer it quicker, and if you've taken our course,

694
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,840
there's going to be a lot of those things that

695
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,880
you will be able to answer right away because it's

696
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,239
right there in your mind, because you've been studying, you've

697
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,960
been putting the time in. Okay, and just go through it,

698
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,719
and then when you get to the end, you'll go

699
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,000
to the second wave, and if it's an electronic test,

700
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:08,119
you'll be able to say you want to review all

701
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,679
the questions that you marked. Then that's what you do.

702
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,840
You review, and it'll take you back to the beginning

703
00:39:13,199 --> 00:39:16,440
and you spend another minute on that question. If you

704
00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:18,559
find the answer, you uncheck it and you move on

705
00:39:18,639 --> 00:39:21,639
to the next question. If you spend over a minute

706
00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:23,760
to minute and a half and you still can't find

707
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,960
the answer, you leave it checked, but you still go

708
00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:28,920
to the next question. So everyone that you answer subsequently

709
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:32,800
you uncheck and you keep on moving through the second wave.

710
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,960
Then your third wave is you're going to answer all

711
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:39,719
the ones that are still remain checked, and before you

712
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:44,320
leave that question, you're going to select an answer. Now,

713
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:49,079
whether you use logic and deductive reasoning or elimination obviously

714
00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:52,599
removing the obviously wrong question so that you increase your odds.

715
00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:55,360
You do want not want to leave it in the

716
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,199
third wave. You do not want to leave a question

717
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,199
without providing an answer. Now, if you want to leave

718
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:00,760
it checked so you can com back for even a

719
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,760
fourth wave if you want, that's fine. But on that

720
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,880
third wave, you want to not leave that question until

721
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,840
you have answered it and you do the best you

722
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,159
can to use logic to give you the best odds. Okay,

723
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,440
instead of being a twenty five percent odd you want

724
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,039
to you want to increase it to a fifty to

725
00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:22,280
fifty that type of thing. You see what I'm saying,

726
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:26,000
and then move through. Now, I will tell you in

727
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:30,400
the first two waves, at least if the if, the if,

728
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,239
it's a calculation, and after a minute you're like, this

729
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,039
is a complicated calculation, then you market and you move on.

730
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,239
You save it for when you've built up some more

731
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,519
time in the third wave, okay, or subsequent waves. Do

732
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,400
not take away from that first and second wave, because

733
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,880
that's gonna be where you're gonna be generating the extra

734
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:52,679
time to spend in the third wave or of subsequent

735
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,480
waves okay, or calculations, Okay, It's important to understand the

736
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:01,119
flow and if you. If you put your mindset in

737
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,119
this way, then you're going to be Okay, you're going

738
00:41:04,159 --> 00:41:06,320
to be You say, okay, I've got a plan, and

739
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,320
that's half the battle, folks, that is half the battle. Okay,

740
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,519
all right. Other tip that to remind you is take

741
00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:17,559
a ruler if they'll let you, unless they give you one,

742
00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:19,719
because again, with a lot of things like indexes, the

743
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,679
text is very small. You want to make sure that

744
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,840
you're using a ruler in your codebook to make sure

745
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,480
that you're on the right line, that you're not making

746
00:41:26,599 --> 00:41:31,480
a simple scanning mistake, okay, looking at the code and

747
00:41:31,559 --> 00:41:33,440
looking at you just want to make sure that you're

748
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:34,920
on the right line. Especially for a lot of these

749
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,119
tables the text is very close together. You just want

750
00:41:38,159 --> 00:41:39,880
to if they let you do it, or they give

751
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,840
you one, or use the edge of your scratch paper,

752
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,639
whatever you use. You know, when you're going through your codebook,

753
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,599
make sure you have something to make sure that you're

754
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,719
picking doing that and making sure you're staying on the

755
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:59,800
right line. Okay. The other thing that I will tell

756
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:07,119
you is there is a way to read a question, okay,

757
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,960
And it's fundamentally to pace your reading style to read

758
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,039
the question. Okay, so you read the question. Once you've

759
00:42:17,079 --> 00:42:20,800
read the question, you're looking for what in the question

760
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:24,760
is the trigger word? Okay? What is the word that

761
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,840
that that you know is not slang that you or

762
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,119
the slang that you can break down into a common

763
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,679
term that is likely to be in the National elegtcal

764
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,519
code if it's an index, okay, that type of thing.

765
00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:41,440
So for example, for me, if I'm reading a question

766
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:46,320
that says, uh ompacity adjustments for a ninety degree c

767
00:42:46,599 --> 00:42:49,679
thhh in conductor in a three quarter e m T

768
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:56,000
with seven current caring conductors. Okay, So the first thing

769
00:42:56,079 --> 00:42:58,440
that I'm thinking about in that question is that it's

770
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,239
th hhn. So I'm going to be able to do

771
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,960
adjustment and corrections okay in this case since it's thhn

772
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:11,599
two h's, it's rated ninety degrees okay, So I'm already

773
00:43:11,639 --> 00:43:17,039
know the terminal and I'm thinking, okay, well it's three

774
00:43:17,119 --> 00:43:23,280
quarter EMT and it's seven current carent conductors. Now, the

775
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,000
reason I gave you that question that way is that's

776
00:43:26,159 --> 00:43:28,159
not typically how it's going to be on an exam.

777
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,360
Why because what did they not tell you? Well, they

778
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,880
didn't tell me the size of the conductor, So I

779
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,599
don't know where to start. Right. They told me it

780
00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:42,480
was three quarter EMT with seven current carent conductors, right,

781
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,639
but I don't know what size these conductors are. But

782
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:51,199
that question alone is one that we use a lot

783
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,280
when I was tutoring to just trigger thoughts from the student.

784
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,320
I just want to hear what they say, and they go, Okay, Paul,

785
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:01,159
I can't do this because I don't know what the

786
00:44:01,199 --> 00:44:04,039
conductor size. So how can I do an adjustment correction

787
00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:05,960
for a number of current current conductors if I don't

788
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,719
know it's It's just says ninety degree c T. It

789
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,239
didn't say what size conductor. It didn't say what the

790
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,480
amps were. It didn't It didn't give me anything to

791
00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:15,239
be able to get from point A to point B.

792
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,559
And that's exactly what I wanted you to do. That

793
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,239
is how you take a question now in our exam

794
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,239
prep program, that's not how it is because all of

795
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,559
our questions give you what you need. Okay, it gives

796
00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:33,880
you what you need to do. Okay. So but I

797
00:44:34,079 --> 00:44:37,840
like thought provoking type of questions just soose students can

798
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,000
come back with, well, I need to know this, or

799
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,920
I need to know that, and then some questions will

800
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,079
give you you'll think that it's not enough information, but

801
00:44:46,199 --> 00:44:50,960
it is more than enough information there, more than enough okay.

802
00:44:53,039 --> 00:44:55,360
Another thing that might you might get a question says,

803
00:44:56,039 --> 00:44:59,719
do a box fill you have four to twelves plus

804
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:04,639
two devices? Okay. So your mind is thinking, okay, if

805
00:45:04,679 --> 00:45:06,960
this was a box fill and I have a raceway

806
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:11,280
coming in, is it total of four to twelve gauge okay?

807
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:19,360
Which is basically three ten in um? What is it?

808
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:24,320
Three fourteen dot sixteen? So you're basically saying, okay, I've

809
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:31,199
got two point twenty five cubic inch per conductor, okay,

810
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:35,239
And you're telling me I have twelve four twelves and

811
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,920
the devices are going to be obviously these are twelves.

812
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,760
They are going to connect to the devices, so it's

813
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,519
two times the largest conductor that's connected to it. So

814
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:48,599
that means I've got four twelves, but I've got two devices,

815
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,320
so that's two per device because it's a double volume.

816
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,800
So I've got four, five, six, seven eight twelves overall

817
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,639
at two point twenty five okay. So that just tells

818
00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:03,280
me what the fill is based on these things, and

819
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,320
sometimes You may say, well, I don't know, are there

820
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,920
any equipment grounds? I'm just saying, look, the point of

821
00:46:10,039 --> 00:46:12,480
this question a lot of times for students is to go,

822
00:46:13,519 --> 00:46:17,119
all right, well, the reason we were doing this one

823
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,000
is to get you familiar with three fourteen dot sixteen,

824
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,199
and two is to realize that just answer what's given

825
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,079
to you. Don't assume anything. I don't know what box

826
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:29,840
we're using. I don't know what the qubcinches of that

827
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,119
box is. I don't know any of that. But I

828
00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:33,239
wasn't asking any of that. All I was asking is

829
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,079
I got four twelves and I got two devices, So

830
00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:39,639
what's the box fill? Well, logically, if they're twelves and

831
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,559
you look at three fourteen pots sixteen, you're gona say

832
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:45,119
it's two point twenty five qbkinches per twelve conductor. I've

833
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:48,360
got four of them, and then I got two devices,

834
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:52,320
and the devices are a double volume each based on

835
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,119
the size of the conductors that are connecting to it,

836
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,280
which obviously are twelves. Because i've got four twelves there,

837
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,440
and that's how I'm going to come up with two

838
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,199
four And I've got four plus two for each device,

839
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:11,400
so that is eight conductors at two point twenty five each.

840
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:18,239
So these are just thoughts. That's it, thoughts, and believe

841
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,440
it or not, when you're studying, that's what's gonna gonna

842
00:47:21,519 --> 00:47:25,519
help you learn. And so that's kind of it. Sometimes

843
00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:29,599
even a bad question is a good question because all

844
00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:33,400
it's really trying to do is make you think and

845
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:35,960
not read something into it. And that's one of the

846
00:47:36,039 --> 00:47:38,920
things that we do on purpose a lot is is

847
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,000
we want you to not let the mind wander. We

848
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:45,800
want you to very much focus. There's a couple quite

849
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,559
a few questions in our competency reviews that really, if

850
00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:51,960
you don't read it well enough, it can screw with

851
00:47:52,039 --> 00:47:55,440
your mind. Okay, it can literally screw with your mind

852
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,199
and you're like, Jesus, I don't get it. What am

853
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:02,239
I doing wrong? Okay type of thing. Right, So there

854
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,440
you go. Now, a lot of times with students I

855
00:48:06,559 --> 00:48:08,960
also tell them, how do you manage the mental game

856
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:11,000
when it comes to preparing for an exam? And you

857
00:48:11,079 --> 00:48:14,360
better start now why you're preparing is how to manage

858
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,719
your anxiety. Some people are really knowledgeable in the code.

859
00:48:18,599 --> 00:48:20,800
They could, in my mind, they could pass any exam

860
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,239
that's put in front of them, but yet they still fail,

861
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,519
and usually it's because they don't test well. They have

862
00:48:26,679 --> 00:48:30,920
test anxiety. They realize that there is so much pressure,

863
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:33,920
whether it's getting a promotion, whether it's getting to be

864
00:48:34,039 --> 00:48:36,280
my own boss, or owning my own company or starting

865
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,199
my own business, or making things better for my family,

866
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,400
or I put in all these years, damn it, I

867
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,039
should be able to nail this exam. Why am I

868
00:48:45,119 --> 00:48:50,000
so stressed out over it? Well, it's because it is

869
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:56,719
important and in licensing and testing is the benchmark. It

870
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,880
doesn't mean you're the best in the world just because

871
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:00,840
you pass an exam, but it means that you're on

872
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,000
your way and you've got to get past that entry.

873
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,599
So it is very stressful. So get used to breathing

874
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:13,320
and pacing yourself. Three way method can incredibly help you.

875
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,800
Structured programs reduce the stress because you got this. You

876
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,280
put in the time. I recommend people ask me all

877
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,480
the time, Paul, how much time should I spend studying

878
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,599
for an exam? Now we've been studying these numbers in

879
00:49:25,679 --> 00:49:30,880
our programs for well over a decade, okay, And the

880
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,440
way to think about this is you need to spend

881
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,800
anywhere between ninety five to one hundred hours of dedicated

882
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,440
study that's not with your significant other breathing down your

883
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:43,400
neck or the kids playing the TV or gaming in

884
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:51,559
the background, by yourself in your environment, focused plotting the

885
00:49:51,679 --> 00:49:54,880
time out to make sure you've got you time so

886
00:49:55,039 --> 00:49:59,679
that you can put in what's necessary you need at

887
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,920
least ninety days. Now. I have a guy that was

888
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,679
mad at me lit just last week. He reached out

889
00:50:05,679 --> 00:50:08,000
and he was going to buy our course, and he

890
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,760
purchased the course, and you know, I could tell he

891
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,039
wasn't very tech savvy because he ended up in emails

892
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:15,679
saying I can't get in, or I couldn't get in

893
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,360
or something. He was having some kind of problem and

894
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,960
he was panicking and he just bought the course. He

895
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:24,280
just bought it, and he was panicking already. I could

896
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,679
tell it the way he was going crazy, And you know,

897
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,920
he was worried born about his money. And I was like, dude,

898
00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:35,559
my courses ain't that expensive, so chill out, relax, But

899
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:38,960
he was already freaking out. So I responded back and

900
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:40,599
said he said, he says, I got to take my

901
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,920
test in twelve days. And my response to him is,

902
00:50:44,039 --> 00:50:47,440
why on earth did you buy my program because I

903
00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:50,239
say enough on everywhere on my website. There are a

904
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,159
lot of people out there, Folks, trust me. They will

905
00:50:52,199 --> 00:50:54,679
sell you a program. They don't care whether you're one day,

906
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,960
they don't care whether you pass or fail. I care. Now,

907
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,800
you can say all kinds of shit about me you

908
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,719
want online, or you can hide behind your Facebook group

909
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,880
or whatever and knowing that I'm never gonna come there

910
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,480
and debate you. You could say what you want about

911
00:51:08,559 --> 00:51:12,199
me but I and you can be a little home

912
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,079
inspector somewhere and think you're knowledgeable about something. But the

913
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:18,360
reality is I've been doing this for this industry for

914
00:51:18,559 --> 00:51:22,760
damn near forty years. I care because I wouldn't give

915
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,920
away as many tools and do different things in this

916
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:29,280
industry to not care. Yes, I make a living, but

917
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,400
I do these things because I care. I create tools,

918
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,440
free quizes things that I do because I care. Now,

919
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:42,320
with that said, you have to understand that you need

920
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:47,320
to put in at least ninety days of dedicated study

921
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,920
in the program. That's at least two hours a week,

922
00:51:53,119 --> 00:51:56,320
excuse me, two times a week, at least four hours

923
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,079
each session. Okay on once got that backwards, Okay, At

924
00:52:00,119 --> 00:52:03,199
least two times, whether you're doing it on Tuesdays and Thursdays,

925
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:07,039
but you need to at least do that for four

926
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:10,960
hours of dedicated study in our program where you were

927
00:52:11,079 --> 00:52:15,320
just locked in. Now, if you want to do it

928
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,280
more than that, that's fine. If you think, well, i'll

929
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,239
do it twice that in that way, I don't need

930
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,039
to spend ninety days. I can do it in sixty days.

931
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:26,800
That's fine. But remember there is an element of where

932
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,960
you can spend way too much time and now it

933
00:52:30,119 --> 00:52:33,559
just becomes a big, jumbling, gobbly goop. And if you

934
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,519
are going to do it quicker, make sure that at

935
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:41,760
any moment you get confused, because you're really overloading the

936
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,800
learning that you use something like our fast tracks enhanced

937
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,519
excuse me fast tracks interact to ask a question, because

938
00:52:49,559 --> 00:52:52,800
I don't want you moving forward if you're confused just

939
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,960
because you're on a fast pace. You still need to

940
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,519
make sure you're studying the right way, learning it the

941
00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:03,119
right way, handing it the right way. These are important factors,

942
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:08,039
but you need to think about the commitment. Now. Everybody

943
00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:09,920
starts out saying, well, I'm gonna study every day. I

944
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,599
gotta have this. I'm gonna do this and look anyway,

945
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,760
the long story short with the gentleman, I ended up

946
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,719
refunding him, and I don't didn't really do refunds because again,

947
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,440
your goal is to pass an exam, and that's what

948
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,840
we're here for. I mean, why should I refund you.

949
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,639
You got into the program because you wanted to learn.

950
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,039
I'm telling you right now, everything you need to pass

951
00:53:27,159 --> 00:53:31,119
is in our program, everything and more. The only reason

952
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,280
you don't pass is on you. It ain't on us,

953
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,360
it's on you, because I'm here to answer any questions

954
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:42,280
you want. So but he was like, He's like, I'm

955
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,559
testing in like two weeks or whatever, and I'm like, dude,

956
00:53:44,599 --> 00:53:46,920
you should have never bought our program. Well, he replied back,

957
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,559
he says, you're arrogant, blah blah blah, And I'm like, dude,

958
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,159
I've already refunded your money because I don't want to

959
00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:56,320
set you up for failure. Now, some people still buy

960
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,480
our program with only a week out or two weeks out,

961
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,599
and you're going to learn something. And if you don't pass,

962
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:03,599
you can always keep studying because it doesn't expire and

963
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,199
it's a good resource to have moving forward. So that's

964
00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:09,440
a positive way to look at it. But I could

965
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,000
already tell this dude was so high strung that no

966
00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:15,559
matter what happened, he was going to find everybody else

967
00:54:15,639 --> 00:54:18,719
to blame for his problems of why he wasn't successful.

968
00:54:19,199 --> 00:54:21,400
And I don't want that. I don't have no desire

969
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,840
for that. I want you to learn, and yes, can

970
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,079
you do it quicker than ninety days, Absolutely, But if

971
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:30,960
you need to be you need to be very honest

972
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,519
with yourself and realize that life gets in the way.

973
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,599
You have family to take care of, commitments to take

974
00:54:39,679 --> 00:54:42,440
care of. Sometimes when you're studying you're not as focused

975
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,719
as you should be. When you get stumped by something,

976
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,960
you end up just saying, oh, I'll figure it out later. No,

977
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,920
you need to stop and use our course the right way, folks.

978
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:57,599
That's what's different between our program and anybody else's. Whether

979
00:54:57,679 --> 00:55:00,320
it's the ones you buy. DVDs are great produ ducks,

980
00:55:01,119 --> 00:55:04,280
the books get they that's fine. But what sets us

981
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,440
apart is I'm gonna be very honest. And again people

982
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,920
can say it's conceited, but it's what you get is me.

983
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,159
I am here to answer your questions in our program.

984
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,440
It's built into the program. You don't get that with

985
00:55:20,599 --> 00:55:24,199
any other program. You don't get the bait and switch

986
00:55:24,199 --> 00:55:28,239
stuff on YouTube where everybody advertises free courses, free courses,

987
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,840
free courses, and then they end up wanting you to subscribe.

988
00:55:31,559 --> 00:55:34,840
That's not how it works with me. I sell courses

989
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:39,039
because I make a living, and so we're mutually invested.

990
00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:42,400
You're invested in me, I'm invested in you. That's how

991
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,400
I do it. Everybody's different, but that's how I do it. Okay,

992
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:49,840
So again, trust in the code, not in your memory, focused,

993
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,400
put the time in uh and uh. That is uh.

994
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:56,760
It's going to pay dividends for you. Okay. Now, as

995
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,199
far as resources out there to learn, folks, I'm gonna

996
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,119
tell you obviously, our structured program is the right way.

997
00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:06,840
But we also have tradehog dot Net which you can

998
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:14,400
ask questions in there. Okay. You also have the nec Quiz,

999
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,199
which is an app that we have which you can

1000
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:21,840
it has some online quizzes. Okay. You've got fast Tracks

1001
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,119
Tube if you get the enhanced program, and the only

1002
00:56:24,159 --> 00:56:26,239
difference between our basic and enhanced is it we just

1003
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,079
go on and give you a year's subscription to the

1004
00:56:28,119 --> 00:56:30,719
fast Tracks Tube included in there at a discounted price.

1005
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,599
That's the only difference. Same program. But what you do

1006
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,480
is it allows you to reaffirm these things by watching

1007
00:56:37,559 --> 00:56:42,320
specific tailored videos on certain things like range calculations, box fill,

1008
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:46,920
single family, multi family. Okay. They help supplement your learning

1009
00:56:47,679 --> 00:56:51,199
and it helps increase your comprehension. Okay. I don't believe

1010
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:55,000
in the video only courses. I believe in a two

1011
00:56:55,119 --> 00:57:01,920
pronged or three pronged approach, right, verbiage, images and video.

1012
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:05,360
That's how I believe people absorb it and they keep

1013
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,480
it mentally for a longer period of time, so easy

1014
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,360
to forget things. Okay. So we give you all of

1015
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:16,400
those resources that you can utilize. Okay, Right, So that's

1016
00:57:16,719 --> 00:57:18,920
you know, if I had to wrap this up for you,

1017
00:57:20,239 --> 00:57:23,159
think of it this way. If there's five step formula

1018
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,920
that can help for that final exam on that test day,

1019
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:33,039
the strategy, okay is utilize the three wave method. Practice

1020
00:57:33,119 --> 00:57:38,360
dissecting questions up till you get to about two weeks

1021
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,400
before you're examed. Then you can start timing yourself. Don't

1022
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,800
time yourself until you get to that period. Take your

1023
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:48,119
time and dissect the questions. Okay, follow the three wave

1024
00:57:48,239 --> 00:57:50,199
method if you don't know what that is. Again, you

1025
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,199
can rewind this back I explained it earlier, or you

1026
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,000
can go watch our three way three Wave method video

1027
00:57:56,119 --> 00:58:02,440
on fast Tracks two. Follow that structure and going there

1028
00:58:03,159 --> 00:58:08,519
mentally prepared, mentally prepared. It's not a matter of whether

1029
00:58:08,599 --> 00:58:10,280
or not you're going to pass it, the matter of

1030
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,079
whether or not you're going to set the record. Okay,

1031
00:58:14,719 --> 00:58:17,639
you've got this, folks. I've been doing this again nearly

1032
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,079
forty years. It just seems like a blur to me.

1033
00:58:21,239 --> 00:58:24,320
I've been doing this for so long, but I still

1034
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:29,800
genuinely enjoy helping people be successful. And hopefully you got

1035
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,519
something out of this podcast and it will help you

1036
00:58:33,639 --> 00:58:36,960
out in your future. And just again we encourage you

1037
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:38,880
if you really do want to get into a structured

1038
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,159
program and really learn the NEEC, whether or not you're

1039
00:58:41,199 --> 00:58:43,559
preparing for an exam or an inspector's exam or you

1040
00:58:43,679 --> 00:58:45,360
just want to get better at the NEC and have

1041
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,960
a resource in your pocket. Our courses don't expire. We

1042
00:58:49,079 --> 00:58:51,280
have them for the twenty twenty twenty twenty three NEC.

1043
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,639
We have grinding and Bonding. We have even a motor's

1044
00:58:54,679 --> 00:58:57,920
course over there video series. Check it out. Folks, we

1045
00:58:58,159 --> 00:59:00,159
encourage you. If you just want a good collection of

1046
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,320
database questions. We have the database questions that are available

1047
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,440
that it's nearly eight hundred exam style questions. Check that out.

1048
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,199
We appreciate it and we look forward to seeing you

1049
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,760
on an upcoming podcast or watch one of our videos

1050
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,679
over on fast Tracks too. We'd love to have you

1051
00:59:15,719 --> 00:59:18,360
as a subscriber over there as well. Take care, God

1052
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,719
bless and we'll catch you on the next Master the

1053
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,599
NEC podcast. Take care.

1054
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,159
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning into another electrifying episode of the Master

1055
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:31,400
the ANC podcast. We hope you're feeling more powered up

1056
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,000
and ready to tackle the electrical world with the knowledge

1057
00:59:34,039 --> 00:59:38,880
and confidence you need to succeed. Remember, in the electrical grade,

1058
00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:41,719
knowledge is power, and we're here to make sure you

1059
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:45,760
stay flogged into the latest inside chips and code updates.

1060
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,679
If you enjoy today's episode, don't forget to subscribe, leave

1061
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Speaker 2: With your fellow electricians and industry pros.

1063
00:59:56,599 --> 01:00:00,159
Speaker 1: Until next time, keep your tool sharp here, circuit, it's

1064
01:00:00,199 --> 01:00:03,159
clear and you're my focus because here at the Master

1065
01:00:03,239 --> 01:00:06,719
of the NEEC podcast, we're all about sparking your success.

1066
01:00:08,159 --> 01:00:13,119
Stay safe, stay smart, and keep mastering the trade. From

1067
01:00:13,159 --> 01:00:15,760
all of us here at Electrical Code Academy. Thank you

1068
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,719
for all your support and we will see you on

1069
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,079
the next amazing Master of the NEC podcast episode