What is on
the NYC Bridge Exam?

One sitting, several titles

The NYC Bridge Exam is a single multiple-choice test whose score places you on several eligible lists at once, across a group of clerical and administrative titles. You pick the titles you want on the day, and each has its own education and experience requirements that are checked separately. Our practice version covers the six tested abilities with eighteen questions each, 108 in 138 minutes.

Two abilities found nowhere else

Attention to Detail and Time Management appear on this exam and on no other title in our line. Attention to Detail is two copies of a record and a question about which entry does not match. Time Management gives you a desk with several tasks due and asks which to do first given the deadlines and who is waiting.

The other four are office versions of familiar abilities. Written Comprehension is a memo or policy. Written Expression is a sentence that has to say one thing clearly. Information Ordering is filing order or the steps of a procedure. Number Facility is arithmetic on amounts and counts. The notice permits a calculator, but only a hand-held, numeric one.

Why people sit it even without a first choice

The score is used to place you on each list you qualify for, with 70% needed to pass. One fee and one morning can therefore cover several jobs, which is the point of the exam. The test does not assume you know any one title's procedures, since it is written to sit under all of them.

DCAS publishes the abilities. The question count and time on our version are our choice.

From the notice

The Bridge Exam notice lists a minimum salary of $58,984, an application fee of $47.00, a passing mark of 70%.

The Bridge Exam is the one that pays for itself twice over: a single sitting places you on seven eligible lists, so one application fee and one morning covers seven titles.