IBEW Electrical Apprenticeship Math Aptitude Test Prep - Top 12 Skills You Need to Pass

back a month later to refresh and heres another comment to increase engagement on the video
does a great job breaking down and explaining things in an understandable way

This is very useful. Currently, im a journeyman drywall Finisher looking switch trades. I've always thought about joining IBEW, i think i want to fufill that dream now. My math skills beyond additions & subtraction is not very good. What advice could you give me on trying to join the electricians union? I'd appreciate any advice, thank you!

The best refresher course Ive found online, thanks for putting in the time and effort to help out others!

Do you get to use a calculator?

Bidmas or pemdas explained that way makes a lot of people make mistakes, which is why there's all those 'solve this problem' stuff on facebook that people mess up. Each two letters are the same step. So it's more like (Pe)(Md)(as). Brackets and Indices are solved on the same step as are division and multiplication, then add and subtract. Within each step you go left to right. So if you see 3-4+5 you do the whole thing left to right, not addition before subtraction.

Thank you so much

I have my exam is 30 minutes 🫡

That last one is definately a good refresher ❤🙏🏻

Yeah I’m just gonna swallow this barrel 😂

Fantastic breakdown. Played on 1.25x speed and refreshed everything I needed.

Great video

Dude this is on a lineman aptitude test? You mess up of 100* 1.02 square2.

this is cool and all but i have word problems lmao involving pictures

My exam is in 2 days. Where can I find practice problems online?
I practiced few stuff in the telecommunications study guide I have but wanna do something different. Help please?

613 local this was very helpful. Skills mostly needed are number patterns, plugin variables EX: x=6 so what is 2x+15=, finding unknown values with other related values, and reading a equation and choosing which graph represents the equation. I passed and already working not a week after I got my results.

is this truly what most of the test covers? cause I've been going through a prep course online and it's been really challenging for me. having me do things like analyzing functions, factoring very complex polynomials, trying to solve for a variable given a very crazy looking formula. it's making me feel like I'm screwed but this is not hard at all. hardest is probably finding percents of a number or compound interest or depreciation cause in school I was taught to do that with a calculator so it seems kind of bogus that the test doesn't allow calculators even though we've all got one in our pockets right now and like 95% of tests given throughout academic careers you're provided a calculator, including the mf ACT

Can anyone recent confirm what appeared most for them?

How the fuck can anyone do this shit without a calculator? I’m fucked and Idk what I’m gonna do with my life

Got a bachelor's in business 4 years ago and gave up my corporate job to try and join the union here. My test is tomorrow watched this video a few times and im so glad. I completely forgot the quadric formula. Wish me luck and thank you for the fresher!

Just got a 7/9 on my test just wanted to say this was a huge help, also 12min prep has a free IBEW aptitude test prep that really helped me. If you’re seeing this and are gonna test be confident you got this !

Failed the test, there were no graphs on this video at all. Holy fuck

Is this for any apprenticeship program?

Thank you so much! Everything that is covered in this video is on the test. (Except the compounding interest)It’s even in order. If you are taking the test, watch this video again and again until you can understand everything and do the problems quickly.

Man, this was such a throwback. My teacher never properly explained the FOIL method (didn’t even have an acronym to help), and another match teacher never properly helped me understand fraction, so I was always working with a deficit. This video, however, explains things really well and it feels like the missing puzzle pieces FINALLY clicked in after years

I'm in my senior year in Highschool. In all four years of Highschool maths I have never been educated as well as this. Thank you sir.

First couple minutes AND I UNDERSTAND NOTHING

Gonna watch this everyday. Before I apply. I’ve ALWAYS sucked at math. But I wanna further my future and put the work in. PRAY FOR ME

crazy how I have multiple pre/algebra study books and none of them mention the FOIL method.
good looking out

How do I do all this without a calculator?

Anyone know if you can use a calculator for this test?

good luck to you ALL!! OWN IT!! BELIEVE IT!!!! YOU WILL PASS THIS TEST. READING AND MATH SECTIONS!! WRITE IT DOWN AND SPEAK IT INTO EXISTENCE!!!!

How the local 565 test?

Thank you so much for this. I haven't taken my test yet it's 2024 but hopefully this still applies

Is the PEMDAS (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) that I remember learning the same as your BIDMAS?

my test at 11 tmr just watching this for a lil review i just graduated so most of this is still pretty easy hope i pass

Number patterns is very important, so is solving linear equations. You will almost certainly have multiple questions of each of these on your test. As of today multiple of both of those were on the test.

When finding percentages of a whole number, if we divide by 10, then divide by 10 again you get the one percent value. Theoretically you can just multiply that value by whatever they’re asking for right? So 12% of 80 1%= .8 so .8 x 12 =9.6

The math was much more complicated than this video portrayed. Useless af.

the easier way to find the percentage is 80 x .12 = 9.6. or 76 x .27 = 20.52

The local I tested for didn't have any questions from chapters 2, 3 and 4.

I got a lot of questions from chapters 1, 8, 9 (just a little more complicated) and 10. Some problems ended up with me solving fractions (adding and multiplying though) so brush up on that. I got several questions about analyzing functions and function information analysis as well.

Calculators aren't allowed on the test and you'll be given paper and pencils. Just thought I drop this info so that others know what else to brush up on.

you keep saying "after a bit of thinking" and not actually explaining what youre doing uggh

Thank you so much! This video helped me pass, for sure. The difference between differences was truly the key for the pattern finding, too. Thanks!

Wouldn’t it be easier to turn a percentage into a decimal and then multiply by the number you’re trying to get the percentage of?

Starting up school in August, want to get my feet wet and do some research before hand and get some knowledge before I start. From what I see in the comments this is very useful

I have my Aptitude test scheduled for August 2nd !! I’m extremely nervous because I am not 100% confident in my math skills .

so how many questions is this test and what’s on the test if anyone remembers it take mine tmr morning

I am trying to get into the Louisville jatc does anyone have any tips?