u/Sch1371

You need to treat this test as if your life depends on it. Cause in a way, it does. I know too many people who recently took it and failed because they refused to take it seriously.

Fuck the pay increase. Sure, it’s nice—but do you want to be an apprentice for another year? You want to repeat another semester? You want to study for the test all over again and stress about it, for another year? This is all that motivated me during my time studying. I wasn’t thinking about the money. I was thinking about finally being free and not having to deal with NEIP and dickhead mechanics.

You need to study for this test as if it’s your second full time job. Read the SSM. I can’t stress that enough. Use the mechanics review exams on your NEIEP portal. Pass them. Then look up every single question in the SSM and truly understand the material. The exam really stresses an understanding of material, not rote memorization. You need to know the why behind everything. You can reason your way through nearly every question if you have the base knowledge.

Stress once, pass once, be done.

Edit: I’m speaking about the mechanics test, not the aptitude test.

I run into multiple people who land every single shot. Do not miss, ever. I could be running, jumping, flying, whatever. Hit hit hit hit sinking full health and shield within a second. Has anyone else seen this?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this said, yet in Mod working on these old systems—the shit these guys did is absolutely retarded. Who runs an SO cord through half inch flex for a simple push button? Making it so I have to bust out brick to be able to pull it out. Turning a 2 hour job into 4. The flex they ran to the fittings behind the walls aren’t even attached. They clearly cut them to length but decided nah I’m not gonna attach it.

I see this kind of shit constantly. The quality of individual parts back then were better, but the installations themselves? Fuck no.

I swear to god I’m the only one who does it. A tank shouldn’t last more than 3 minutes. The god damn second an enemy vehicle shows up it should be obliterated almost immediately.

Multiple times now my character decides to not move after selecting an option on the wheel, and then conveniently that’s when a bad guy teleports in the room I’m in and kills me.

I’m tired of my pump. It’s fast, but it’s a pain in the ass to transport and it doesn’t fit in a 5 gallon bucket. Hoses leak oil. I’ve used the Milwaukee battery pump and it’s easily transportable but takes forever to empty or fill a tank.

I’m trying to find a pump that’s decently powerful and easily transportable without making a mess.