What is on
the NYC Environmental Police Officer exam?

The short answer

The same nine abilities as School Safety Agent — and every worked example is different, because the setting is a reservoir and not a school.

Our practice exam runs 110 questions in 142 minutes, in the order below.

What makes this title different

Spatial Orientation here is a facility map, and Visualization is an altered object.

The setting is a reservoir, a watershed and the roads around them. If you have practiced the School Safety Agent exam, the abilities match and not one of the worked examples will.

What each section is asking for

Written Comprehension is reading a rule or an order and saying what it does and does not cover. Deductive Reasoning is taking a rule you were handed a moment ago and applying it to one case. Inductive Reasoning is several incidents, and the pattern that fits all of them. Information Ordering is putting steps into the order a procedure requires. Problem Sensitivity is seeing the change at a water site before it becomes a breach. Written Expression is writing it down so the next person reads it the way you meant it. Memorization is descriptions from a watch bulletin, recalled without it. Spatial Orientation is orienting yourself on a facility map of a reservoir site. Visualization is an object that has been altered, and what it looked like before.

None of it is a knowledge test. You do not need to arrive knowing environmental conservation law or the geography of the watershed. Everything the question needs is on the page. What is being measured is whether you can use it with the clock running.

What the City publishes, and what is ours

DCAS names 9 abilities for this title, in Notice of Examination 6304, 6305. 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 110 questions and the 142 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.