Question Pools
This page contains mirrored copies of the original source material published by the NCVEC, as provided by the ARRL VEC. These are the materials used to generate the practice exams on this site. The question pools are rather large text files, so please bear that in mind before you download them. Some files are presented in Portable Document Format (PDF), so you'll need to have Adobe Reader installed to view them.
Effective November 9, 2005, the NCVEC has published an updated release schedule for the question pools. ARRL has a short article on the topic.
| Question Pool Information | Element 2 Technician |
Element 3 General |
Element 4 Extra |
| Questions on Exam | 35 | 35 | 50 |
| Questions in Pool | 511 | 432 | 804 |
| Withdrawn Questions | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| Eligible Questions | 506 | 429 | 797 |
| Valid for tests given until | June 30, 2006 | June 30, 2007 | June 30, 2008 |
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| Syllabus (Subelement and Group Descriptions Only) | TXT | TXT | TXT |
| Complete Question Pool | TXT | TXT | TXT |
| Exam Figures | N/A | ||
| Question Breakdown Pie charts showing how many questions from each subelement are on the exams. |
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