Spot the violation
Twelve drawn scenes. In each one, exactly one thing is wrong. You click it.
The North Carolina examinations are open book on the 2020 National Electrical Code, and the state enforces the 2020 edition with its own amendments. This page holds no table values, but the sections it names are the 2026 numbers, so check them against your own 2020 copy.
The article level moves are concentrated at the two ends of the book: Chapter 1 took in load calculations from Article 220 and energy management from Article 750, and the limited energy and communications material was rebuilt across the 720s. Ampacity, overcurrent, grounding, motors and boxes kept their articles, and Chapter 9 is still the tables. What we hold on the moves compares the 2026 edition with the 2023 one, and the record does not reach a 2020 book, so it cannot tell you what any of these numbers is in the edition North Carolina tests on. Look each one up in your own copy.
Most of the code that fails real work is spatial. How much room is in front of a panel, how many conductors are in a box, whether you can see the disconnect from where you are standing. A paragraph cannot ask that question honestly and a drawing can, so this asks it with a drawing.
Every region gets an explanation, not only the wrong one. The four that are fine in each scene are the ones people click, and knowing why they are fine is most of what separates a candidate who has read the section from one who remembers the general idea.
No number off a code table appears anywhere here. Where a scene needs a figure it is stated on the drawing as a given. The requirement itself is in your own book, which is where the exam expects you to look for it.
Click the one thing that is wrong
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