What Connecticut requires to license an electrologist in 2026 — training hours, the written exam, the passing score, and what our practice tests do and do not cover. Verified against Connecticut Department of Public Health — Board of Examiners of Electrologists.
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The exam
Connecticut licenses electrologists through Connecticut Department of Public Health — Board of Examiners of Electrologists. Candidates sit a written, oral and practical examination prescribed by the Department of Public Health with the board’s advice and consent, administered by the department under the board’s supervision (C.G.S. §20-270). The department may waive the written examination for a candidate who has passed the written examination of a nationally recognized board or agency it and the board approve. DPH names that route: a candidate who has successfully completed the American Electrolysis Association examination for professional certification as an electrologist is “not required to complete the IBEC/AEA examination for Connecticut licensure”. Registration for the IBEC/AEA examination is with Prometric, which takes the fee and sends the official score report, and which DPH calls “the testing service”. The examination itself is, in the statute’s words, “administered to applicants by the department” — and Prometric is not named anywhere on DPH’s practical examination page.
Training: a course of study at an approved school (600 hours per AEA — the sum of 200 and 400, rather than a single stated figure); $150 to apply, $205 to renew.
Connecticut sets its own examination. C.G.S. §20-270 requires a written, oral and practical examination prescribed by the Department of Public Health, and lets the department waive the written paper for a candidate who has passed the written examination of an approved nationally recognized board or agency. The department publishes no content outline for the written paper. Our bank is a national electrology bank built to the NIC National Electrology blueprint (45 % scientific concepts · 55 % electrology procedures and services). It is not built to any particular board’s paper, and no content outline is published for the IBEC licensure examination on any first-party route, so we cannot tell you what share of Connecticut’s written paper our bank covers. The practical is a hands-on demonstration of Short Wave and Galvanic technique on a model the candidate brings, with their own epilator, and nothing here prepares you for it. The practical session also asks for brief spoken responses to seven questions on sterilization and infection control — that subject matter is in our bank as theory, but we do not drill it as spoken answers at a workstation. PSI publishes a separate National Electrology outline, which California, Michigan and Massachusetts sit; Hawaii sits its own PSI form.
Prep for this state
One electrology bank serves every state we cover — ten practice tests over the six NIC electrology domains, with flashcards for each. What your state sets on top of that differs: the board, the hours before you sit, and in some states the paper itself. The exam section below names the examination this state uses.
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