What is on
the NYC Traffic Enforcement Agent exam?

The short answer

Nine sections — but not the same nine as School Safety Agent. Number Facility is in and Visualization is out.

Our practice exam runs 100 questions in 125 minutes, in the order below.

What makes this title different

This title is a feeder into the Police Officer promotion exam.

A summons that cannot survive a hearing is worse than no summons. That is why so much of this exam is precision in writing rather than judgment under pressure.

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. Number Facility is plain arithmetic on times, distances and fees, quickly. 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 noticing something is wrong before anybody tells you it is. Memorization is plate numbers and vehicle details you saw a few minutes ago. Written Expression is writing it down so the next person reads it the way you meant it. Spatial Orientation is one intersection, from where you are standing in it.

None of it is a knowledge test. You do not need to arrive knowing the parking rules, the summons codes or any particular intersection. 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 6310, 6330, 6331. 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 125 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.