Can you pass the Electronics Engineering (ECE) 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 Electronics Engineering (ECE) Board Exam, the Electronics 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 ECE 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 ECE exam, and what you need if you do.
The rules come from RA 9292 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 70% in each of the four subjects (RA 9292).
RA 9292 gives one removal exam if you passed most subjects and your failed subjects are between 60% and 69%. Fail the removal and you fail the whole exam.
The full retake rules for 10 boards are in what happens if you fail the board exam.
The ECE passing rate was 47.3% in October 2026 (61.6% in March 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 ECE 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 ECE 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 can work for the ECE exam, but the 70%-in-every-subject rule punishes gaps. Whatever you choose, take a timed diagnostic in all four subjects early and fix the weakest one first.
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 9292 has no refresher course requirement for repeaters.
It was 47.3% in October 2026 (61.6% in March 2026), based on PRC's results.
Ready to test yourself? Try the free ECE board exam reviewer. For the general comparison, see review center vs self-review.
