Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency
Practice Exams and Sample Questions
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he Red Seal website provides exam counseling sheets. Go to www.red-seal.ca and
click on the side bar for Red Seal Examinations, then select your trade from the list. The
exam counseling sheet contains the following:
• A weighting of the exam (identifies the number of questions that are related to a
particular topic). Most Red Seal exams have between 100 and 150 questions.
• A link to a free sample of questions for the trade (approximately 20 questions).
• Free practice certification exams (containing 100+ questions each) have been published
by Alberta’s Ministry of Enterprise and Advanced Education:
• Automotive Service Technician (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Carpenter (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Construction Electrician (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Heavy Duty Equipment Technician (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Plumber (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Steamfitter / Pipefitter (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Truck and Transport Mechanic (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Welder (Practice Exam and Answer Key)
• Free sample questions (approximately 30 questions) are available from British
Columbia’s Industry Training Authority. Click on a trade below to open a pdf document;
read a question; click in the box next to a response to determine if it is correct:
• Boilermaker
• Motor Vehicle Body Repairer
• Bricklayer
• Steamfitter/Pipefitter
• Glazier
• Truck and Transport Mechanic
• Insulator (Heat and Frost)
• Practice exams in several trades are available for purchase at www.exambank.com.
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n “Electrician’s Self-Assessment Tool (ESAT)” is available for purchase from the
Canadian Standards Association. This CD-ROM contains more than 1100 sample
questions to test your knowledge of the Construction Electrician National Occupational
Analysis. Click here for information.
• C
entennial College Press has several trade-related handbooks for purchase (available
here), which contain sample tests in the following trades:
• Automotive Service Technician
• Construction Electrician
• Truck and Transport Mechanic
• Online textbooks and quizzes covering electricity and electronics are available at
www.thelearningpit.com and www.allaboutcircuits.com.
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Department of Labour and Advanced Education
Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency
2021 Brunswick St, PO Box 578
Halifax, NS B3J 2S9