Traffic Enforcement Agent:
timing and pacing

125 minutes for 100 questions

The Traffic Enforcement Agent paper is the shortest of our uniformed exams: 100 questions in 125 minutes, 75 seconds each on average.

One section moves twice as fast

Number Facility gives you 50 seconds a question. Every other section allows between 72 and 84. The jump catches people: after twenty minutes of reading at a comfortable pace, the arithmetic section feels like a sprint. A basic calculator is permitted, but most items are small enough to do faster in your head.

Where reading pays

Written Comprehension has fourteen questions, the most of any section here, at 77 seconds. Those items are posted rules and procedures, and the question usually turns on one qualifying word: except, only, unless. Find that word first.

Spatial Orientation has only eight questions but 82 seconds each. A single intersection takes a moment to picture from the agent's position. Settle which way you are facing before reading the answer choices.

Getting the pace into your hands

Do one timed Number Facility section, then one Written Comprehension section, back to back, so you feel the change of speed before the real test does it to you.

An unanswered question scores nothing. Mark, guess and keep moving.

Our time limit is a design choice; the City does not publish one.