Pocket Prep is a fine general test-prep platform — but its electrician bank targets the NASCLA exam with a few hundred questions. If your exam is a state PSI or Pearson VUE test on a specific NEC edition, you need prep built for exactly that.
Why Loomi
| Loomi | Pocket Prep | |
|---|---|---|
| Exam scope | Journeyman exam only — state PSI / Pearson VUE style, NEC 2017 · 2020 · 2023 | NASCLA journeyman exam (one of ~100 certifications on the platform) |
| Price | $12.99/mo annual (3-day free trial) · $15.99 monthly · $179 lifetime | Subscription (monthly/annual), as listed on their site |
| Notes | 12,934 questions per edition, every one tagged to its NEC section; spaced repetition | ~300 electrician questions; general-purpose test-prep engine, not NEC-specific |
Verdict
If you're taking the NASCLA exam specifically, Pocket Prep covers it. For everyone else — the vast majority of journeyman candidates sitting a state PSI or Pearson VUE exam — a NASCLA-focused 300-question bank is the wrong tool, and depth on your actual NEC edition is what passes the test.
The honest framing: Pocket Prep and Loomi aren't really competitors — they're built for different exams. Pocket Prep's electrician product preps the NASCLA journeyman exam, which a handful of states use. Most journeyman candidates face a state exam administered by PSI or Pearson VUE, written to their state's adopted NEC edition, heavy on code lookups and calculations.
That's the exam Loomi is built for: 12,934 questions per NEC edition (2017, 2020, and 2023), every question tagged to its code section, timed like the real thing, with spaced repetition that resurfaces what you miss until it sticks. You can judge the question quality yourself — 2,035 questions are free on this site with full explanations, no signup.
12,900+ NEC-referenced journeyman exam questions with spaced repetition. Journeyman-only. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial of everything — no surprise in-app upsells.
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