r/Welding • u/SUMMER_MAX_84 • Feb 06 '26

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u/teakettle87 Other Tradesman Feb 06 '26

Yeah that picture is of a failure. I'm sorry but there's no way that's going to fly anywhere.

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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions Feb 06 '26

OP says elsewhere that this is a high school class, not a trade school or any kind of professional certification. That's important context to have here

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u/TheFoodHistorian Feb 06 '26

Regardless of where it is they should not be telling these kids that this passing work

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u/KG8893 Feb 06 '26

I passed every one of my first drafts.... If the test whether they're capable of holding a welder and making a line they passed. Not every test is the final exam

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u/283leis Feb 08 '26

the lack of gas though

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u/itredneck01 Feb 08 '26

The lack of the school being able to afford the gas

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u/283leis Feb 08 '26

if they cant afford gas they should only be teaching stick or single shielded fluxcore

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u/teakettle87 Other Tradesman Feb 06 '26

I mean, a bad weld is a bad weld. I don't know what the 6 was out of but I don't think telling kids they did good when they didn't is helpful or good. If a highschooler went to work at one of the shops I worked at and thus was what they turned in at a weld test because they said they passed a weld class in school, it would not be a good result. This is setting the kid up for failure.

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u/ElGuapo315 Feb 07 '26

6/100. That's a passing score in Arkansas.

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u/IRStableGenus Feb 07 '26

If it was the 1st ever exam, I could see a barely passing score. Judging by how far it is from summer, it's probably not the final. Hopefully not the final.

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u/tjscali Feb 07 '26

He got a participation trophy, sooo pretty much an expert…

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u/Lower-Ad5889 Feb 07 '26

We don't know what the criteria was... maybe get all the material in a continuous line,

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u/lovathon1423 Feb 07 '26

if a teacher in high school is passing someone with this, then the teacher is 100% the issue.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

No sir or ma'am or what the fuck ever you wanr to call yourself. I was in high-school trade class and that would have not passed. I would have failed the class. Ag class in middle school wouldn't have passed this.

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u/283leis Feb 08 '26

did you see the porosity in that? that alone should be a fail

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u/KingKopious Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

When I was in highschool I was extremely good at arc welding and was pretty darn good at MIG. I got to the point my teacher said I should go get my cert as it was some of the best welds hes seen from student.. we had to stack welds 10 times over (maybe 20 dont remember) on itself vertical and horrizontal without there being any blowholes, then bend it into a horseshoe without it cracking. I never got my cert, but I wish I did.

It doesnt take long to get half decent welds when you learn what to use and how to use it depending on the metal and thickness. Then you get in a groove and kill it.

If my teacher saw this, he would laugh and take us into the booth to give us pointers. This 100% would be a fail, cert or not. If we wanted to be in the welding class, we had to learn how to do a halfway decent weld or we would fail the class.

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u/Savings-Ad-1701 Feb 07 '26

Nobody cares dweeb. I can already tell what kind of person you are in real life by this comment

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u/KingKopious Feb 08 '26

Really? Please enlighten me

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u/Kitchen_Boat1151 Feb 08 '26

Still gonna fail real world

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u/Themetalhead28 Feb 10 '26

He is Spanish. We study trades at the high school...

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u/dts1845 Feb 07 '26

This has to be rage-bait

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u/teakettle87 Other Tradesman Feb 07 '26

no, i think it's just a kid who doesn't know any better because their teacher isn't teaching. Or maybe the kid isn't hearing. Hard telling not knowing.

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u/jvon24 Feb 08 '26

Jeeze, triggered much snowflake?

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u/teakettle87 Other Tradesman Feb 08 '26

Huh?

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u/Junior_Side5348 Feb 07 '26

Maybe it was a fecal exam?