What is on
the NYC Special Officer exam?

The short answer

Five sections, the shortest ability list in the line. No memory section, no map and no arithmetic, because the notice names none of them.

Our practice exam runs 100 questions in 127 minutes, in the order below.

What makes this title different

Each of the five sections carries 20 questions, so no single ability outweighs another.

No maps, no memory page, no arithmetic. If you have prepared for the Police Officer exam and are sitting this one, half of what you practiced does not appear.

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. Problem Sensitivity is noticing the visitor, the package or the door that is wrong. Information Ordering is admission, property and fire safety steps, in the order the post requires. Written Expression is writing it down so the next person reads it the way you meant it.

None of it is a knowledge test. You do not need to arrive knowing the property voucher procedure or the fire safety plan of any building. 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 5 abilities for this title, in Notice of Examination 6327. 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 5 sections above are the City's. The 100 questions and the 127 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.