Elevator Industry Aptitude Test
Practice for the EIAT, the elevator apprentice exam
NEIEP gives the Elevator Industry Aptitude Test when a local opens an apprentice intake: 100 questions on reading, mechanical reasoning and math, on paper, marked pass or fail at 70 percent. Answer 20 of ours in the browser and find out which section needs your evenings.
- What it is
- The aptitude exam NEIEP and the IUEC put in front of apprentice applicants. Passing it is what gets you to the interview board.
- Sections
- 35 reading comprehension, 35 mechanical aptitude, 30 math. One hundred questions in one paper sitting. NEIEP's own applicant guide is the only source for that split.
- Passing score
- 70 percent, pass or fail. A candidate below the line leaves the intake for that cycle.
- What the score buys
- A seat at the interview, and nothing else. Your place on the hiring list comes from education, work history and the interview score, not from how far above 70 you land.
- Time limit
- Nobody publishes one. Prep vendors quote anything from 15 minutes to two hours, and the official guide never mentions minutes at all, so read the notice your local sends you.
- Calculator
- No published rule either way. All nine prep vendors we checked say no calculator, so practise the math by hand and lose nothing if they are wrong.
- Sitting it
- Paper, in person, $25 and non-refundable. Intake runs local by local for about 30 days, roughly every two years. There is no national test date.
A free diagnostic, 20 questions
Seven reading questions, seven mechanical and six math, written at exam level, with the reasoning behind every option once you finish. Your answers stay in this tab: the scoring is arithmetic done in the page, with no account, no server and nothing to sign.
The whole sitting runs here, diagrams included. The app draws every figure in code rather than shipping pictures, and those painters now run in the browser too: levers, hydraulics, belt drives, gear trains, ramps, balance frames and pulley rigs, redrawn at your screen width and in your theme.
What the app adds
Hoistway is a study app for iOS and Android. One payment of $19.99 opens all of it, for good: no subscription, no 30-day access window, no renewal to forget about. Web vendors charge $25 to $129 for a month.
- The rest of the bank200 questions across the three sections. The 20-question diagnostic and 15 practice questions are free; one payment opens the other 165.
- Mechanical diagramsGear trains, pulley rigs, levers, hydraulic pairs. The app draws them in code rather than shipping pictures, so they stay sharp and readable at any type size.
- A full mock examOne hundred questions in one sitting, with three pacing presets, since no one will tell you the real time limit.
- OfflineThe bank ships inside the app. A basement with no signal changes nothing about your practice.