Can you pass the Electrical Engineering (REE) board exam with self-review? What the law says, the passing rate, review center costs, and what you need.
Mariano Luiz King
Published November 9, 2026
Yes. You can take the Electrical Engineering (REE) Board Exam, the Registered Electrical Engineers Licensure Examination, without a review center, and no law requires one for your first attempt. Whether self-review works for you depends on your discipline and on a few things specific to the REE exam. This post covers the law, the passing rate, what review centers cost, and what you'd need to do it alone, as of November 2026.
After reading this, you can decide whether to self-review for the REE exam, and what you need if you do.
The rules come from RA 7920 and PRC's documents. The passing rates come from PRC's results, which I collected in board exam passing rates. Review center prices are from the centers' own sites. I checked all of them on November 9, 2026.
To pass, you need a 70% weighted average, with no subject below 50% (RA 7920).
RA 7920 lets you retake only the subjects below 50%, any number of times. You pass once you average 70% in the retaken subjects. It has no refresher rule.
The full retake rules for 10 boards are in what happens if you fail the board exam.
The REE passing rate was 49.3% in September 2026 (57.5% in April 2026).
That's everyone who took the exam, with or without a review center. PRC doesn't publish separate rates for self-reviewers, so this number can't tell you which method works better. It only tells you how hard the exam is overall.
I couldn't find an REE review center that publishes its fees on its own site. Ask for a written quote, and compare it with the published prices in review center vs self-review.
I built prepPH, so I'm biased. It has REE practice questions with explanations, organized by subject, with spaced repetition built in. That covers the practice part of a self-review. It doesn't replace live teaching, and it won't count as a refresher course if your law ever requires one.
Self-review is a reasonable bet for the REE exam if you're disciplined, partly because its retake rule is the most forgiving of the 10 boards. Put most of your time into the Professional Subjects, which carry 45%.
Yes, it's allowed. No law requires a review center for your first attempt. Whether it works depends on your discipline and your practice.
No. RA 7920 has no refresher course requirement for repeaters.
It was 49.3% in September 2026 (57.5% in April 2026), based on PRC's results.
Ready to test yourself? Try the free REE board exam reviewer. For the general comparison, see review center vs self-review.
