Stock Worker:
exam timing and pacing

Seconds per question, section by section

162 questions over 215 minutes averages out at about 80 seconds each, and that average describes almost none of this exam. Comfortable in one section, brutal in the next. Knowing which is which before you sit down is most of what pacing practice buys you.

Where it squeezes

Number Facility is the tightest section here, at about 73 seconds a question. Time Sharing is the loosest at roughly 87. At 162 questions over 215 minutes this is the longest sitting in the line by nearly an hour. Stamina is part of what is being measured.

Expect number facility to be the one that bites. The fix is committing sooner, not reading quicker. Nothing is deducted for a wrong answer here, so a marked guess and a candidate who has moved on beats a perfect answer that cost two other questions.

What the City publishes, and what is ours

DCAS names 9 abilities for this title. What the notice does not give is a question count or a time limit, for this title or any other. Nobody outside the City has those two numbers, so a site quoting them is quoting a guess.

The 9 sections above are the City's. The 162 questions and the 215 minutes are ours. We picked them so the practice sitting feels like the real thing, and we would rather tell you that than let you assume the City set them.

How to practice the clock

Take a single section against a clock first, on its own. A full sitting tells you your score. A single timed section tells you where the score came from, and here that means finding out what number facility feels like at 73 seconds a question.

Then sit all 215 minutes in one go, at least a week before the real one. Four documents that disagree with each other, and the question is which one is right. That is a stock worker's morning.