Ensure you have the proper requirements needed. Before you are eligible for the pre-employment tests that the practice test is based on, you must have at least three years of experience working in underground coal mining. This experience can be substituted if you acquired the needed technical skills for this career some other way, such as through your education.
Visit the Prairie State Energy Campus website. Hover your mouse over "Careers" in the top main menu. Click the "Practice Test" option that appears.
Click "here" at the end of the last paragraph in the "Coal Mine Pre-Employment Practice Test" section. This will open the pdf document "Mining Selection Test Battery Samples." This is the practice test for Prairie State's pre-employment test for coal mining workers.