What is on
the NYC School Safety Agent exam?

The short answer

Nine sections, one for each published ability. There is no ethics section, because this notice does not name one.

Our practice exam runs 100 questions in 137 minutes, in the order below.

What makes this title different

Spatial Orientation here is a school floor plan, and Visualization is the x-ray belt.

A school corridor gives you seconds to decide whether what you are looking at is a scuffle or a crowd forming. That is what most of these nine abilities are asking about.

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 reading a corridor before a scuffle becomes a crowd. Written Expression is writing it down so the next person reads it the way you meant it. Memorization is faces and names from a school bulletin, recalled later. Spatial Orientation is finding your way around a school floor plan. Visualization is what an object looks like on the x-ray belt from another angle.

None of it is a knowledge test. You do not need to arrive knowing chancellor's regulations or the layout of any particular school. 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 6324–6326. 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 100 questions and the 137 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.