the NYC Bridge Exam:
timing and pacing

138 minutes across six abilities

Our Bridge Exam practice version is 108 questions in 138 minutes, about 77 seconds each. Every section has eighteen questions.

Attention to Detail rewards a method

At 73 seconds, comparing two copies of a record can be slow if you read each line twice. Compare field by field, one column at a time: names, then dates, then figures. The mismatch usually jumps out faster that way.

Time Management is a reading question

At 80 seconds, these items describe a workload and deadlines and ask what comes first. Underline mentally the hard deadline and anyone waiting in person. Those usually decide it.

Number Facility

Also 73 seconds. A numeric-only calculator is allowed, so long sums are not a problem; the risk is copying a number wrongly into it. Check what you typed against the question once.

The pressure is endurance

No section is under seventy seconds a question. The difficulty is staying careful for more than two hours of clerical detail, because a single slip in Attention to Detail costs the point.

Leave nothing empty.

DCAS does not publish a time for this exam; the 138 minutes are our choice.