Georgia Power EEI Test Practice Guide
Preparation guide for the Edison Electric Institute tests behind Georgia Power's pre-employment testing
What Georgia Power says
Southern Company's Powering Careers site says: "Georgia Power uses pre-employment testing to assess your skills", and "You can take practice tests on the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) website." It describes five EEI batteries in its own words:
- CAST (Construction and Skilled Trade Test): "math problem-solving, comprehension of mechanical concepts, and reading comprehension"
- POSS and MASS: "the reasoning abilities found to be important for successful job performance of plant operators and maintenance technicians"
- MASS: assembling objects, mechanical concepts, reading comprehension and mathematical usage
- SO/PD II: "analytic thinking skills, mathematical usage and reading comprehension"
- TECH: graphic problem solving, interpreting diagrams, mechanical concepts and reasoning from rules
The page does not say which Georgia Power job takes which battery. EEI's own job families are CAST for line and trades, POSS for plant operators, MASS for plant maintenance, TECH for technicians and SO/PD II for system operators, and your invitation will name yours.
How the EEI tests are marked
Every subtest is scored as the number you get right, and EEI's brochures say "There is no penalty for guessing or wrong answers", so leave nothing blank. The utility never sees a subtest on its own: the subtests in a battery are combined into one index (1 to 10 on CAST, 0 to 15 on POSS, Recommended or Not Recommended on SO/PD II), and the utility sets its own cut-off. Neither EEI nor any utility we have read publishes that cut-off, so aim to do well on every subtest rather than at a number. EEI does not give results to candidates; the utility does.
Practise for the Georgia Power EEI test
Each game below is one EEI subtest on EEI's own clock where EEI publishes one, with free movement between questions as on the paper and no penalty for a wrong answer. Together they are every subtest we simulate from CAST, POSS, MASS, TECH and SO/PD II.
- EEI Mechanical Concepts (44 questions · 20 minutes · free) - In CAST, CAST-R, MASS, POSS and TECH: 44 drawings in 20 minutes, three options each. Free, and the one to start with.
- EEI Reading Comprehension (26-36 · 22-30 minutes) - Choose your battery: 32 questions in 30 minutes for CAST, 36 in 30 for MASS and POSS, 26 in 22 for SO/PD II.
- EEI Mathematical Usage (18-46 · 7-17 minutes) - The short form, 18 questions in 7 minutes, or the long POSS form, 46 in 17. Formulas are given; the fifth option is N, none of these.
- EEI Graphic Arithmetic (16-21 · 19-30 minutes) - Arithmetic on dimensioned drawings that are not to scale. CAST and CAST-R settings, plus a TECH Graphic Problem Solving setting.
- EEI Assembling Objects (20 questions · 15 minutes) - MASS only: 20 puzzles in 15 minutes, joining labelled or unlabelled parts.
- EEI Figural Reasoning (20 questions · 10 minutes) - POSS only: 20 picture series, comparisons and progressions in 10 minutes, about 30 seconds each.
- EEI Interpreting Diagrams (20 questions · 15 minutes) - TECH: count and read symbols on a sector map against a legend. EEI publishes no clock, so ours is 20 questions in 15 minutes.
- EEI Reasoning from Rules (15 questions · 15 minutes) - TECH: apply a set of routing rules to each case. EEI publishes no clock, so ours is 15 questions in 15 minutes.
- EEI Analytic Thinking Skills (23 questions · 45 minutes) - SO/PD II: 23 questions in 45 minutes across arguments, problem solving and TRUE, FALSE or INDETERMINABLE logic.
Which subtests make up each battery, and what we do not simulate, is on the EEI practice page. The EEI test guide covers calculators, scoring and retake rules across utilities.
Common questions
Do the EEI practice tests cost anything?
No. Georgia Power says "There is no cost to take these practice tests."
Is it CAST or CAST-R?
Southern Company hosts EEI's 2020 CAST-R material, which keeps Graphic Arithmetic, Mechanical Concepts and Reading for Comprehension and allows a calculator on Graphic Arithmetic. Check your invitation and practise both ways.
Also applying elsewhere? Our Entergy and TVA guides cover the same tests.