Aptitude-Test

rohdog50

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I have a Mechanical aptitude test,next weekend(3 hrs long)...for a mechanical position at a plant near me. General maintenance in welding,pipe fitting,sheet metal fabrication,pump rebuilding,hydraulics,rigging and general equipment repair. I must be able to perform general maintenance duties,in 3 or more of these fields....wich I can. My question is..has anyone taken a mechanical aptitude test? and what kind of questions do they ask? pully's,gears,tools etc. Just trying to prepare better for the test.

Thanks,

Keith
 
Been decades since I have taken one but back then I scored high but then I have been doing thing at that time for a long time and now even longer. Hard to say what it would be like now since the last time I did that was 40 plus years ago
 
I took one several years ago, there were about 20 of us taking it at the same time, I finished first , some guys couldn't finish in the time allowed, I get called into the administration office, thought I was in trouble, turns out I had one of the highest scores in the school, funny part is I could never get a job doing what I was good at.
 
Never had to take an aptitude test. Before I began working with my Dad and/or for myself, I held plant maintenance jobs at a couple of different places. In every case the 'test' was basically several folks asking me what I knew and me telling them. From that point on it was just a matter of backing up what I had said in the interview.

The way I see it, if the folks doing the interview know what they are doing, "You can't BS a BS'er", and if you do it will wind up biting you in the rear end pretty quick.....especially in the repair and maintenance fields.
 

The factory where I used to work required a degree in electro-mechanical-technology to qualify for a job such as you describe. There was never a mechanical aptitude test given, but should have been.
 
Some 25 years ago when I went into maintenance and had to take the test.
Passed it OK, some of the questions they ask didn't seem any thing to do with mechanics
One clincher question that a lot of people failed was.
What is the head of a factory called?. The answer was, superintendent.
 
Before an interview, It wouldnt hurt to look up what the symbols on drawings regarding welding, hydraulics, and electrical system mean. Often interviews are conducted by office types who know little about the job but judge you by something that they deal with
Godd luck.



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I have taken several tests for the state. One of the "sucker" questions usually asks, If a 1 inch pipe flows 100 g.p.m. how much will a 2 inch flow. The "sucker" answers is 200 g.p.m. Remember the old pie thing from high school 3.14? Dont fall for the sucker question.
 
Worked for local mining company hears ago. New engineer decided to give us all an aptitude test. The shop workers scored higher than he and we never heard anymore about it!
 
Back when Caterpillar was having labor problems, I drove from here to Peoria twice to do the initial interview and take an aptitude test. I had a high school diploma and a tractor seat PHD. This old redneck did well enough on the thing to get called back for a second interview. Since the Cat/worker thing had gotten nasty, I decided I was better off not getting involved. To my recollection, most of the questions were fairly easy. Some of them required some thinking before jumping to conclusions. Many of the questions were beyond my education level, but I found if I thought about it for a minute and reasoned them out, the answers were not that tough. As I said, I did well enough to get called back. Good Luck!
 

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