The Red Seal exam, explained.

70% on every trade, one mark per question, no penalty for wrong answers. How many you need right, trade by trade, and what happens if you miss it.

100 to 150 depending on the trade, in four hours. All eighteen trades compared, with the block-by-block breakdown the exam is built from.

How you book, what the sitting looks like, what is provided and what to leave at home, and how to pace 240 minutes.

You can write again. The wait, the rewrite fee and the limit on attempts for every province and territory, in three tables.

70% on questions drawn from the whole standard. What the official guide says, and the pass rates provinces actually publish.

An endorsement on your provincial certificate, not a licence. Red Seal vs journeyperson vs certificate of qualification, side by side.

18 providers on the same facts: trades covered, questions claimed, price and access period, free tier, guarantees. We are one of them and say where we fit and where we do not.

Start with the official self-assessment, study in weight order, practise the way the exam asks, and taper into exam week.

The trade qualifier route: who is eligible, how each province handles it, and why the exam is the same one apprentices write.

SkilledTradesBC: two fee ladders, Portal booking, a 30-day wait, and a published rounding rule.

Apprenticeship and Industry Training: MyTradesecrets, the Trades Qualifier routes, and the 60% rule for a third attempt.

SATCC and MyATC: scheduled sittings, a three-month wait after a first fail, mandatory upgrading after a second.

Apprenticeship Manitoba: no exam fee for apprentices, the Trades Qualification fees, four exam centres.

Skilled Trades Ontario: $150 + HST, first attempt free for recent completers, self-booking, a 30-day wait.

A different system: who can apply, the paper application, the fee, and how the sitting is scheduled.

The published fee table, the challenger rules, and what the province leaves to its regional offices.

Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency: the $350 trade qualifier fee, re-writes, supplied calculators, mailed results.

Challenge forms, the regulation's fee schedule, a 30-day wait, and what could not be confirmed online.

No exam fees since April 2025, the two application routes, and the 30 to 90 day rewrite window.

Three territories on one page: residency, fees, monthly sittings, and who to call when little is published.

Every province and territory side by side: exam fee, rewrite fee, waiting period and how you book.

125 questions across 8 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

135 questions across 11 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

100 questions across 5 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

100 questions across 7 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

135 questions across 9 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

120 questions across 8 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

135 questions across 6 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

125 questions across 6 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

150 questions across 13 blocks: what each one covers and how to weight your study.

130 questions across 7 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, and how to weight your study.

125 questions across 4 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, and how to weight your study.

125 questions across 7 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, and how to weight your study.

135 questions across 8 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, and how to weight your study.

100 questions across 6 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, the code book, and how it differs from the 309A.

120 questions across 5 blocks: what each one covers, the missing formula sheet and the maths you need, the Partsperson name, and how to weight your study.

Three exams of 120 questions, Generalist, Structural/Ornamental and Reinforcing: which one you write, each breakdown, the three formula sheets, and how to weight your study.

120 questions across 5 blocks: what each one covers, the formula sheet, the new 2026 standard, and how to weight your study.

130 questions across 6 blocks: what each one covers, the 18 acronyms, no formula sheet, challenging on experience, and how to weight your study.

Paper A: 100 questions in 3 hours, 65% to pass, twelve units and 55 objectives, what you may bring, and the exam format by province.

The exam at a glance and sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question 4A bank.

One from each of ten syllabus units, four of them calculations, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

Paper B: 100 questions in 3 hours, 65% to pass, units B1 to B12 and 52 objectives, what you may bring, and the exam format by province.

The exam at a glance and sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question 4B bank.

One from each of ten Part B units, four of them calculations, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

Multiple choice, open book, 75% to pass, written at a Prometric centre: what you may bring, the fees, the challenge route and the nine modules.

The exam at a glance and five sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question G3 bank.

Ten questions across the nine G3 modules, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

80 questions in three hours, three sections, 70% overall and 60% in each section, open book with the 2024 OESC: what you may bring, the fee and retakes.

The exam at a glance and five original sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question ME bank.

Ten questions across ESA's three sections, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

120 questions in two parts, 60% on each part and a 75% average, open book with the CEC 2024 and the Exam Kit, online: booking, fees and rewrites.

The exam at a glance and five original sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question Alberta ME bank.

Ten questions across both parts of the Safety Codes Council exam, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

House 2024 and Small Buildings 2024: 70 questions in three hours, 70% to pass, open book with the 2024 Compendium; booking, fees and how the two exams nest.

Both exams at a glance and five original sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question bank.

Ten questions across our seven study units, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

General and Designer Legal/Process 2024: who needs which, 70 questions in three hours, 70% to pass, open book with the Act in the Compendium; what each covers.

Both legal exams at a glance and five original sample questions with answers, plus the full 400-question bank.

Ten questions on the Act and Division C, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

70% to pass, up to four hours, six weighted skill sets, no published question count: booking, fees, rewrites and the ODP card.

The exam at a glance and five original sample questions with answers, plus the full 550-question 313D bank.

Ten questions across STO's six skill sets, every option explained. Printable, PDF download.

Apprenticeship or the challenge route through a Trade Equivalency Assessment, the hours, the fees and the ODP card.

What each licence covers, the hours, Red Seal or not, and which one you need.

The map, the weighting, how a question is written and checked, and how to report one you think is wrong.

All eighteen trades, plus the guides, on one page you can hand to a student.

Nine refrigerants, bubble and dew pressures, superheat, subcooling and target superheat, in psig and °F or kPa and °C.

Single- and three-phase, copper or aluminium, metres or feet, checked against the CEC 3% and 5% limits, with the minimum conductor size for a given drop.

Enter any two of voltage, current, resistance and power; series and parallel resistors; a simple energy-cost estimate.

UNC, UNF and metric threads at 50, 60 or 75 per cent, snapped to standard number, letter, fractional and metric drills.

Teeth and diameter ratios, compound trains, output speed, belt speed, belt length and centre distance.

SAE grade 2, 5 and 8 and metric 8.8 to 12.9, dry and lubricated, computed from clamp load; manufacturer specs always override.

Bore, stroke and cylinders to cc, litres and cubic inches; compression ratio from chamber, gasket, deck and dish volumes.

EMT, rigid steel and PVC, conductor areas against the 53, 31 and 40 per cent limits, and the smallest size that passes.