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NYC Police Communications Technician practice test

What this exam actually asks of you

The NYC Police Communications Technician exam is 140 questions across 7 sections in 168 minutes. Nothing in this exam is drawn and nothing is calculated. It is all words arriving faster than you would like, which is the console.

The mistake that ruins the result

Practicing with pen and paper in silence. Nothing in this exam is drawn or calculated; it is all words arriving faster than you would like, which is the console.

How to sit it

All 7 sections in one sitting of 168 minutes, clocks enforced. Passing is not the goal: the exam produces a list number, hiring runs down that list, and a few marks decide where on it you land.

What to do the day after

Memorization is the squeeze at sixty seconds a question and the section closest to the job, because a caller does not repeat themselves. Practice holding four facts while something else demands attention.

What a practice test owes you

A Police Communications Technician result is a list position, not a pass or a fail. The gap between a list number of 300 and one of 3,000 is usually the gap between being called and never being called, and a practice sitting is where you find the marks that move you.

Our NYC civil service bank holds 2,576 questions and 7,728 wrong answers, and every one of those wrong answers carries its own sentence saying what a student who picked it was probably thinking. Not one is left bare, and a build of our site fails if that stops being true. For Police Communications Technician candidates that is the difference between knowing you missed 14 questions and knowing which ability each one was testing.

We also measure whether the paper can be beaten without being read. On our NYC civil service exams the best any length-based strategy scores is 40%, against the 25% that pure guessing gives. A practice test where picking the longest option beats guessing is measuring the person who wrote it, not your child. That figure covers all eleven civil service titles together, Police Communications Technician among them, because they draw on one shared bank of ability questions.

Seven abilities, no maps, no figures and no arithmetic. A practice sitting that includes any of those is not this exam.

Where to sit one

We publish two full Police Communications Technician practice exams with no questions shared between them, and you can sit a single section on its own when that is all the evening allows. A free sample is on the samples page, and it needs no account.

More on this exam: the full Police Communications Technician guide.

Common questions

How long should a Police Communications Technician practice test take?

168 minutes for all 7 sections, 140 questions in total.

Should a Police Communications Technician practice test be timed?

Yes. The Police Communications Technician exam is timed section by section and a section does not reopen, so an untimed run tests something else.

Is the score the useful part of a Police Communications Technician practice test?

No, the reasons are. Every one of the 7,728 wrong answers in our NYC civil service bank carries a sentence saying what a student who picked it was probably thinking, and for Police Communications Technician that is what turns a list of misses into a plan.

How often should we sit a Police Communications Technician practice test?

Twice is usually enough. There are two Police Communications Technician forms with no questions in common, so the second sitting is a genuinely new paper.