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COMMISSION'S RULES · - Volunteer Examiners and Volunteer Examiner Coordinators; temporary identification; element credit; remote operation

G1D09§ 97.9(b)G1D →

How long is a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) valid for exam element credit?

  1. A30 days
  2. B180 days
  3. C365 days
  4. DFor as long as your current license is valid
Why Under 97.9(b), a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination gives you credit for the element you passed for 365 days from the date of the exam session. That means if you pass a written element but not the next one, you have a full year to come back to another VE session and finish without retaking the element you already passed. The same CSCE also grants temporary operating privileges until your upgrade appears in the FCC database, but that authority ends when the 365 days run out.
Watch out The 180-day answer is a common mix-up; no Part 97 element credit period is that short, and the credit is not tied to the life of your license either, since it expires a year after the exam whether or not your license is still current.
CSCE credit = one year, 365 days. Pass one element now, finish the upgrade within a year.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
47 CFR 97.9(b) Operator license grant.

(a) The classes of amateur operator license grants are: Novice, Technician, General, Advanced, and Amateur Extra. The person named in the operator license grant is authorized to be the control operator of an amateur station with the privileges authorized to the operator class specified on the license grant.

(b) The person named in an operator license grant of Novice, Technician, General or Advanced Class, who has properly submitted to the administering VEs a FCC Form 605 document requesting examination for an operator license grant of a higher class, and who holds a CSCE indicating that the person has completed the necessary examinations within the previous 365 days, is authorized to exercise the rights and privileges of the higher operator class until final disposition of the application or until 365 days following the passing of the examination, whichever comes first.

eCFR text as of 1 Sep 2026 · read on ecfr.gov
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