The first time Jose Arriaga, of Nampa, failed the journeyman electrician’s exam, he blamed himself for not studying enough. The second time he failed it, he thought maybe it was because his English wasn’t that great. For his third try, his employer paid for him to take a test preparation course.
He still failed it.
That’s when Arriaga, who has been an electrician for 10 years, became suspicious that it was the test, not him…