The four skills we drill. One short sample each.
Locals vary. Check your local's test format. People search for plumbing and pipefitting aptitude sample questions. Here are four original worked examples of the skills we drill. Reading, Math, Mechanical, and Figure Visualization. Not a dump of the bank. Not a score. Not a promise you will be #1.
No calculator on the real test. Use pencil and paper. Pipe Trades Aptitude is practice for that test. Trades Blueprint does not write the booklet they hand you at the test.
Reading
The reading skill we drill: you read a passage, then you answer after it is taken away. True or false from memory. Read this once.
Shop rule: tag a pipe before you cut it. Write the length, the room, and your initials. Do not cut unmarked pipe. If a tag is missing, stop and ask the lead.
Claim: you may cut unmarked pipe if you already know the length.
False. The rule is do not cut unmarked pipe. Knowing the length does not replace the tag. If the tag is missing, stop and ask the lead.
Math
Ratio and proportion. Shop numbers. Pencil and paper. No calculator. Interactive Math and tape measure. Geometry practice: rectangles, triangles, circles, and tape-measure reading to 1/16 inch.
A crew uses 3 gallons of primer for every 8 feet of pipe. How many gallons for 24 feet?
3 / 8 = x / 24. Cross-multiply: 8x = 72. x = 9. Nine gallons.
Check: 24 feet is three groups of 8 feet. Three groups times 3 gallons is 9 gallons.
Mechanical
Force and direction on a first-class lever. The fulcrum sits between the load and your hand.
The load sits closer to the fulcrum than your hand does. You push down. The load goes up. Your side of the plank is longer, so you use less force than the load weight. We will not print a mechanical-advantage number. Read the picture.
Figure Visualization
One unfolded 2D net. You pick the 3D solid it folds into. A real drawing. Words alone are not this skill.
Six squares in a T. Fold on the dashed seams. The faces close into a cube. Not a pyramid. Not a flat sheet. One net. One solid.
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These four samples show the skills we drill. They are not a rank and they are not the booklet. Locals vary. Check your local's test format. Eighteen questions. No card. Find the skill that would miss the cutoff.