Red Seal Exam Preparation

What you'll learn

• Describe the Red Seal Welder exam, its major work activities, weighting and pass mark, and the Alberta routes to journeyperson certification
• Build a study plan from the occupational standard and an evidence-based self-assessment, and use retrieval, spacing and interleaving to study
• Apply safety rules for radiation, fume, electricity, fire, compressed gases and rigging, and solve acetylene withdrawal, sling tension and noise dose problems
• Explain oxyfuel, plasma and air carbon arc cutting and mechanical preparation, diagnose cut quality and estimate cutting cost and kerf losses
• Choose shielded metal arc settings, polarity and electrodes, read electrode classifications, apply storage rules and diagnose defects
• Explain gas metal, flux-cored, metal-cored and submerged arc welding, including transfer modes, gases, wire classifications and settings
• Set up gas tungsten arc welding for steel, stainless and aluminum, including polarity, AC balance, tungsten choice, purging and filler
• Relate steel structure, heat-affected zones, mechanical tests, carbon equivalent, preheat and distortion to welding decisions
• Read drawings, tolerances and welding symbols, and lay out and fit parts with squaring, bolt circles, rolled plate and miter calculations
• Decide which code and edition apply, check procedures and welder qualifications against their ranges, and choose inspection and NDE methods
• Prepare, weld and evaluate groove test plates, plan restarts and avoid the common causes of bend test failure
• Run and review a practice exam by topic and error type, and plan a career path with records that keep qualifications current