What is on
the NYC School Safety Agent exam?

Nine abilities, set inside a school

Notice 6324 names nine abilities for School Safety Agent and nothing else, so our practice exam has nine sections and no ethics section. It runs 100 questions in 137 minutes.

What changes from one uniformed title to the next is the setting each question is written in. On this exam the map is a school floor plan, the memory page is a school bulletin with faces and names, and Visualization is an object on the x-ray belt seen from a second angle.

Why Problem Sensitivity carries twelve here

The notice describes agents who patrol a building, identify and remove unauthorized people, help the sick and injured, and write up incidents for a principal's hearing or for court. Most of that turns on reading a hallway early: is that a scuffle, or a crowd starting to form around one? We give Problem Sensitivity twelve questions on this paper against ten on the Police Officer version for that reason.

Written Expression matters for the same hearings. An incident report that can be read two ways will be, by somebody, in a meeting you are not in.

What the notice asks before the test counts

The notice requires agents to be at least twenty-one, to pass a qualifying physical test, and to clear medical and psychological examinations. A driver license is not required for this title. Calculators are not permitted in the test room. You do not need to know the chancellor's regulations or any school's layout to answer a question; each one supplies what it is testing.

DCAS sets the abilities but not a question count or time limit. The 100 and the 137 are ours.

From the notice

Notice 6324–6326 lists a minimum salary of $39,206, an application fee of $54.00, a passing mark of 70%.

That salary is the lowest of the uniformed titles the City tests for, and the work is inside a school building rather than on a street post, which is the trade most candidates are actually weighing.