How the Exam 955 Multicraft test works
Exam 955 is for Maintenance Mechanic, Building Maintenance and Electronic Technician jobs. You book a seat at a proctored test centre, arrive 15 minutes early with government-issued photo ID and your login details, and leave phones and other devices outside.
The exam has two separately timed parts, Multicraft and Spatial Relations. Multicraft is 60 items in 60 minutes and tests knowledge and skill in mechanical and electrical areas. The instructions screen in USPS’s sample carries the title Ramsay Corporation Job Skills, MultiCrafTest, so this part is Ramsay’s maintenance test.
Ramsay lists the areas of its online MultiCrafTest as hydraulics and pneumatics; welding and rigging; power transmission, lubrication and shop equipment; pumps, piping and combustion; motors, control circuits and print reading; digital electronics, PLCs and test instruments; and AC/DC theory and power distribution.
Your score is the number right, with no penalty for guessing. If you finish early you can review your answers in this part, but not after its time ends. You need 70 to pass, excluding veterans’ points; USPS does not publish how raw marks convert to that scale.
How to prepare for Multicraft
USPS tells candidates to study the sample questions in its package. Beyond that:
- List the seven areas and mark the ones you rarely work in. Those are where marks are easiest to gain.
- Revise core formulas: Ohm’s law, power, series and parallel resistance, and pressure, force and area.
- Practise reading schematics and symbols, since several areas rely on them.
- Work at about one question a minute so you finish with time to review.
Worked examples
Electrical: a 24-volt circuit has a total resistance of 8 ohms. What current flows? A. 0.33 A, B. 3 A, C. 16 A, D. 192 A. By Ohm’s law, current equals voltage divided by resistance: 24 ÷ 8 = 3 A, option B. Option A divides the wrong way round and D multiplies.
Hydraulics: a force of 50 pounds on a piston of 2 square inches drives a second piston of 10 square inches. What force does the second piston deliver? Pressure is 50 ÷ 2 = 25 psi, and 25 psi × 10 square inches = 250 pounds.
Tips for the real Exam 955 Multicraft
- Answer every question. A blank is a certain zero, and guessing is not penalised.
- Skip anything that would take more than a couple of minutes and return to it in the review.
- Use the practice screens at the start to learn how to select and change answers.
- Take care of personal needs before check-in. The exam is meant to run without breaks.
- For a sense of difficulty, Ramsay reports a mean of 29 out of 60 for applicants on its online Form A6, so do not panic about questions outside your trade.
Practise Exam 955 Multicraft on CogniPrep
Our Multicraft practice is 60 four-option questions in 60 minutes across the seven Ramsay areas, with a review screen if you finish early. It shows your raw mark out of 60, not a 70-scale score, because USPS does not publish the conversion. It starts straight away, without the real exam’s tutorial screens.