Technician pool study

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Study the official Element 2 pool

Unofficial practice using all 409 public-domain NCVEC questions and all three diagrams. An actual 35-question examination draws one question from each of 35 groups. Choose exam-shaped practice for one item per official group, or uniform pool study.

February 19, 2026 corrections to T1C01, T5A05, T7A09 and T0A10 are included. ARRL lists no withdrawn Technician questions as of September 22, 2026.
July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030, inclusive. Check NCVEC for later errata before your examination.
Official group and item identities remain visible throughout practice and review.
Exam-shaped practice always includes required diagrams. The full pool includes 12 questions using Figures T-1, T-2 and T-3. A missing required diagram blocks answering and never becomes a scored miss.
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Domain performance

Correct and missed answers by sampled subelement. Group counts are combined into the ten official subelements; full names appear in the ledger and CSV. Every correct answer earns one point. Sampling allocation values are not official scoring weights.

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U.S. Amateur Radio General Exam Prep Prepare for the U.S. General amateur radio exam with unofficial pool study, 35-question rounds and explanations for missed answers.
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A handheld radio can receive a local repeater even when its transmit settings are wrong. Making a contact through that repeater requires the correct transmit frequency, suitable equipment settings and permission to use the frequency. U.S. Technician amateur-radio study connects these everyday operating decisions with the rules and electrical principles behind them.

Technician is the entry-level amateur-radio license class issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It provides operating privileges in amateur bands above 30 megahertz (MHz), including very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) bands, plus limited high frequency (HF) privileges. Local voice contacts, club repeater activity and amateur satellite communication are common reasons to learn the material. General and Amateur Extra licenses require further examination elements and extend access to additional amateur frequencies.

Frequency permission and signal type need to be considered together. A radio's tuning range can extend beyond the frequencies its operator may use, and a signal occupies more than the single frequency shown on the display.

Band
A named frequency range, such as the 2-meter amateur band. License privileges and operating restrictions apply within these ranges.
Mode
The method used to carry information, such as frequency-modulated voice or a digital data signal.
Bandwidth
The frequency range occupied by a signal. Transmissions need enough room within an authorized segment for their occupied bandwidth and frequency uncertainty.

Repeater operation normally uses different transmit and receive frequencies. Their difference is the repeater offset. Direct radio-to-radio operation, called simplex, commonly uses one frequency instead. Antenna placement, surrounding obstacles and signal propagation also affect whether a contact succeeds. Increasing transmitter power does not correct the wrong offset or expand a license's privileges.

Element 2 is the 35-question written examination for Technician licensing. Its subject matter spans operating rules, radio waves, station setup, electrical calculations, circuit symbols, antennas and safety. The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee publishes dated question pools from which examination questions are selected. The 2026–2030 pool applies from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030. Corrections issued during a pool's life are called errata, so the edition and its corrections matter as well as the class being studied. There is no Morse-code proficiency test for a Technician license.

Learning a keyed answer and understanding its reason serve different purposes. A resistance calculation depends on the relationship between volts, amperes and ohms, while a schematic question depends on recognizing the symbol and its connections. Neither a memorized answer nor a high practice score demonstrates safe wiring, antenna installation or radio-frequency (RF) exposure compliance.

Examination credit comes from an authorized examination session. For a first amateur license, passing the examination is not itself permission to transmit under that new license. Participation under another qualified control operator is a separate matter governed by FCC rules. The operator/station grant must appear in the FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. Unofficial practice is a study aid, not an examination credit, license or certification of operating competence.

How to Use This Tool:

Begin with a short learning round or choose a round with one question from each examination group. The English-language practice defaults to an untimed, 10-question sample from Full Technician pool, with diagrams included and feedback after each answer.

  1. Enter your intended Exam date and check Pool and errata. Only the release with February 19, 2026 corrections is included. The examination date and your device's current local date must both fall between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2030, inclusive.
    A date outside this period cannot select another pool. Correct an invalid date before starting. When an incompatible saved attempt prevents setup changes, Reset setup explicitly discards that saved attempt and returns to the defaults.
  2. Choose Practice scope. Select Exam-shaped · one per official group for exactly 35 questions with the prescribed group distribution. Choose the full pool, a subelement or a focused group for targeted study. Selecting 35 questions from the ordinary full pool does not impose the examination's group distribution.
  3. Select the content and length of a pool-study round. Keep diagrams included, or choose Diagram-free study subset to exclude diagram-dependent questions. The full included inventory has 409 entries; its diagram-free subset has 397. Question count offers 1, 5, 10, 20 or 35 questions where the scope permits, plus every eligible item. Focused groups have smaller menus. Exam-shaped practice fixes the count at 35 and does not allow diagram exclusion.
  4. Choose Feedback. After each answer reveals the keyed answer and feedback as you go. After the whole round hides correctness and keys until completion. To reproduce a round later, keep its settings and the same Replay seed under Advanced. A seed must contain 1 to 128 characters and cannot be blank.
  5. Start the round and select one of the four answers. Selection submits and locks the answer immediately in either feedback mode. Continue with Next question, then View results after the final answer.
    A required diagram must load before its answer choices become available. If Prompt unavailable appears, the item is blocked rather than marked wrong. Change setup or Try a new session starts over and clears the current round's answers. A new session can still contain diagram questions.
  6. Review the Answer ledger and the missed-answer explanations. Use Retry missed to concentrate on errors, Replay same seed to repeat the round, or Try a new seed for another selection. Use the recorded question and group identifiers to locate material that needs further study.

Interpreting Results:

During a round, the headline counts answers submitted, not answers correct. After completion, it changes to correct answers out of the round's total. Perfect round means every question in that particular round was answered correctly. Otherwise, Start with the missed answers directs attention to the errors. Neither message is a readiness grade or a prediction of an examination result.

Domain performance reports correct and missed counts for sampled subelements. A domain with more sampled questions has more opportunities to accumulate misses, so compare its misses with the number answered rather than treating the longest bar as the weakest ability. An unsampled domain remains untested. The ledger supplies the individual responses behind those totals. If the chart is unavailable, the ledger remains useful while Retry chart attempts to restore the visual summary.

A missed-only retry is a new, smaller study round, not a correction to the original score. It does not restore the 35-group examination distribution. Same-seed replay tests familiar questions in the same order when the release and settings are unchanged. New seeds can reuse questions, and a round containing every eligible item necessarily returns to the same inventory. For a broader check after targeted review, change the scope back to exam-shaped practice rather than comparing a small retry directly with a full round.

Technical Details:

Technician questions test several kinds of understanding, from repeater settings and operating restrictions to circuit symbols and electrical arithmetic. Each keyed choice earns one point. The scope of a result follows the questions selected: excluding schematics leaves symbol recognition untested, even when every remaining answer is correct.

Points and progress in a study round

Each response matching the keyed alternative earns 1 point. An incorrect response earns 0 points, with no partial credit or negative marking. Let N be the total questions in the round, A the number answered and C the number correct. The score is C points out of N possible points. Counts are whole numbers, N is positive, and zero ≤ C ≤ A ≤ N. Raw accuracy and visible progress retain unrounded ratios from 0% to 100%.

The practice accuracy percentage uses the entire round as its denominator, including questions not yet answered.

Accuracy (%) = 100 × CN

Progress measures completion instead of correctness.

Progress (%) = 100 × AN

Unanswered questions remain in N without becoming incorrect responses. Completion requires A to equal N. For example, five submitted answers in a 10-question round give 50% progress. If four are correct, the practice accuracy calculation is 40%, not 80%, and the final review is not yet available. The headline result uses exact integer counts rather than a rounded percentage.

The examination threshold is a separate rule

FCC rules require at least 26 correct answers on the authorized 35-question Element 2 examination. This is an integer threshold, not a rounded percentage and not a threshold applied by the practice results.

Minimum correct Maximum correct Authorized examination meaning
0 25 Below the required correct-answer count.
26 35 Meets the written Element 2 correct-answer requirement.

There is no corresponding official pass decision for a 10-question sample, a focused group or a missed-only retry. Even a practice score above the examination threshold supplies no examination credit.

Subelements, groups and question selection

A subelement is a broad subject area. Each contains smaller groups used to distribute examination questions. For example, T5D04 belongs to T5, Electrical principles, and to group T5D, covering Ohm's law and series and parallel circuits. Its final digits identify the individual question within that group.

The following counts describe the included February 19, 2026 inventory and the one-per-group distribution. They are not percentages of knowledge mastered or an assurance that every topic has been learned.

Subelement Included entries Questions in grouped round
T1 · Commission's rules 68 6
T2 · Operating procedures 37 3
T3 · Radio wave propagation 35 3
T4 · Amateur radio practices 23 2
T5 · Electrical principles 50 4
T6 · Electronic and electrical components 46 4
T7 · Practical circuits 44 4
T8 · Signals and emissions 47 4
T9 · Antennas and feed lines 23 2
T0 · Safety 36 3
Total 409 35

One question from each of the 35 groups gives the grouped distribution above. Ordinary pool study instead samples uniformly from the eligible questions without replacement, so no question repeats within that round. Groups with more eligible questions have more opportunities to appear in an ordinary sample, and some groups may not appear at all.

Figures T-1, T-2 and T-3 support 12 questions, all within T6. Excluding them reduces the T6 inventory from 46 to 34 entries and the full inventory from 409 to 397. These are explicit exclusions, not alternative text versions of those diagram questions. Failure to display a required diagram before answering blocks the item; failure during later review does not change an already recorded score.

Electrical relationships behind the answers

Ohm's law connects voltage, current and resistance in a steady DC ohmic-resistor model, using finite nonnegative voltage and current magnitudes and a positive resistance. With E for voltage in volts, I for current in amperes and R for resistance in ohms, voltage equals current multiplied by resistance.

E = I × R

Dividing voltage by a positive current magnitude gives the resistance; division by zero is undefined.

R = EI

For the direct-current (DC) power questions, finite nonnegative voltage and current magnitudes give electrical input power P in watts when multiplied.

P = E × I

Units must agree before substitution. For example, 1,500 milliamperes is 1.5 amperes, not 1,500 amperes. DC electrical input power is also not automatically the transmitter's RF output power. These relationships explain study questions; choosing an answer does not measure a real circuit.

Keyed alternatives and teaching explanations

Question identifiers and answer letters retain their source meanings when the choices are reordered. A displayed B answer remains that question's B alternative even if it is not second on the screen. Scoring checks the selected alternative against the stored key, not its screen position or a separately inferred meaning.

That distinction matters for T7C04, which asks about a standing wave ratio (SWR) meter reading for an impedance match. The keyed choice is C, 1:1. The offered 50:50 ratio is mathematically equal to 1:1. The authored explanation uses normalized-meter wording to discuss the retained key; it does not establish that 50:50 is mathematically wrong or independently adjudicate the official alternatives.

The review identifies the NCVEC key separately from original teaching notes. Additional teaching notes exist for selected entries, not every question. T5D04 has a separate explanation; T7A09 does not. Other entries report the keyed answer and any supplied reference without a separate explanation. A key-only entry should not be mistaken for a full lesson on the underlying rule or circuit.

Accuracy and Privacy Notes:

If saving an attempt fails, the previous saved URL remains unchanged. Newer in-page answers may be lost on reload, so keep the page open until you have reviewed or recorded them.

The practice material is tied to the February 19, 2026 release and its displayed source-check date of September 22, 2026. It includes the corrected wording for T1C01, T5A05, T7A09 and T0A10. The recorded withdrawal status is dated, and later errata or withdrawals are not fetched automatically. Check the current publisher notices before an examination.

The dated pool text was obtained from an NCVEC-authored release distributed through a volunteer-examiner mirror. The included counts do not establish an independent audit of every question, answer or diagram against the current publisher download. Authored teaching notes are separate from the question-pool key and are not NCVEC explanations. No FCC, NCVEC or examination-coordinator affiliation or endorsement is claimed.

Answers are scored in the browser, but that does not make an attempt private to the device. The page address can encode the setup, seed, responses and position in the round so an attempt can be restored. This information is not encrypted. Anyone receiving that address may be able to recover the answers, and the address can remain in browser history or reach the site when loaded. Diagrams, chart and document features, and opened references can also require network access. Downloaded answer ledgers contain your responses. Do not treat a saved link as a confidential record or assume the practice works entirely without a connection.

Worked Examples:

Finding resistance instead of memorizing a position

Select T5D · Focused group, choose all 14 eligible questions and use After each answer. When T5D04 appears, its 90-volt supply and 3-ampere current give 30 ohms by dividing 90 by 3. Selecting B · 30 ohms earns one point wherever that alternative appears in the shuffled choices. Selecting A · 3 ohms instead records a miss, reveals the keyed answer and adds the item to the completed round's missed review. The calculation explains the factor-of-ten mistake and gives a reason to retry the item.

A perfect result that leaves most schematic questions untested

Select T6C · Focused group, choose Diagram-free study subset and answer both eligible questions correctly. The completed result is 2/2 and Perfect round. That covers T6C01 and T6C12 only; the other 10 questions in the 12-question group depend on diagrams and were excluded. To study those as well, return with Change setup, include diagrams and explicitly choose 12 questions. The original 2/2 result remains evidence about two text questions, not about circuit-symbol recognition across the group.

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