Ironworker (Generalist) - Red Seal Self-Assessment and Exam Breakdown

Self-Assessment

This tool can be used to reflect on your own experience and knowledge in the trade compared with what is on the exam.

Exam Breakdown

Each Red Seal exam's questions are developed to assess the activities laid out in in the National Occupational Analysis. This trade's Red Seal exam has 120 questions Footnote *, which are distributed as follows:

Block A - Occupational skills - 15 questions
Task 1 Interprets occupational documentation
4 questions
Task 2 Communicates in the workplace
2 questions
Task 3 Uses and maintains tools and equipment
5 questions
Task 4 Organizes work
4 questions
Block B - Rigging and hoisting - 22 questions
Task 5 Selects rigging equipment
10 questions
Task 6 Uses hoisting and lifting equipment
12 questions
Block C - Cranes - 11 questions
Task 7 Selects, assembles and erects cranes and components
7 questions
Task 8 Disassembles cranes
4 questions
Block D - Reinforcing - 19 questions
Task 9 Fabricates on-site
6 questions
Task 10 Installs reinforcing material
13 questions
Block E - Pre-stresses/post-tensions - 8 questions
Task 11 Places pre-stressed/post-tensioning systems
4 questions
Task 12 Stresses tendons
3 questions
Task 13 Grouts tendons
1 questions
Block F - Erection, assembly and installation - 34 questions
Task 14 Installs primary and secondary structural members
17 questions
Task 15 Installs ornamental components and systems
9 questions
Task 16 Installs conveyors, machinery and equipment
8 questions
Block G - Maintenance and upgrading - 11 questions
Task 17 Repairs components
5 questions
Task 18 Dismantles and removes structural, mechanical and miscellaneous components
6 questions

For more information about exam preparation materials contact your provincial/territorial apprenticeship office.