Can You Cheat the EIAT?
The Elevator Industry Aptitude Test has no online sitting to borrow and no score to inflate. It opens the door to an interview, and the interview ranks you.
NEIEP gives the EIAT on paper as part of each local’s recruitment and scores it pass or fail at 70%. A pass buys only an interview, and the hiring list is ranked on the interview score, with the Tool Assessment counted in.
A paper test, given at the recruitment
NEIEP’s study guide says the EIAT is administered on paper as part of the recruitment process. You apply to a local’s recruitment online, pay a $25 testing fee, and sit the 100 questions when that recruitment tests. One local’s notice also asks for photo ID during the application process. There is no unsupervised online stage that someone else could sit for you, and no score that travels from a test taken at home.
A pass only opens the door
Most attempts to cheat a test are about a higher score. The EIAT does not give you one that matters. It is scored pass or fail, with 70% correct the minimum, and applicants who pass are scheduled for an interview. Passing with 71% and passing with 99% lead to the same place.
The interview is where you are ranked. Two members of the local’s Joint Apprenticeship Committee, one from the union and one from the employer side, ask every applicant the same questions. Your score is the average of theirs, you need 70% to be ranked at all, and your place on the hiring list follows that score. Correct answers on the separate Tool Assessment, basic tools and measuring, count toward it.
Failing costs a recruitment, not an afternoon
If you fail, you are not interviewed and you are removed from that recruitment’s pool. You can re-apply, but only at the next recruitment, and a local recruits when its hiring list runs out or expires, which lists do every two years. The real risk of the EIAT is not being caught; it is losing a cycle because you met an unfamiliar format on the day.
What working on it actually looks like
The formats are the thing to learn. The reading section is a gap-fill, not a passage with questions. The mechanical questions are drawings with three choices, the third meaning there is no difference. The maths is pencil work with five choices, the last always "No answer". Our EIAT practice covers all three sections, the full 100-question paper and tape-measure reading for the Tool Assessment, with Mechanical Aptitude free. The time limit is not published, so our games count time up rather than down.