| Description |
1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 The Road to Landing a Job as a Police Officer -- Chapter 1 Signing Up, Getting Screened, and Other Prep Work -- Starting with the Notice of Examination (NOE) -- Completing a Job Application -- Rounding up required info and paperwork -- Understanding what will get you disqualified -- Acting professionally -- Taking the Written Test -- National Police Officer Selection Test (POST) |
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New York City Police Officer's Entrance Exam -- Adding the Law Enforcement Essay Exam -- Completing the Personal History Statement -- Passing the Physical Ability Test (PAT) -- Making a Dynamite Impression during the Oral Board Interview -- Undergoing the Medical and Psychological Evaluations -- Medical evaluation -- Psychological evaluation -- What if I Get Eliminated during the Screening Process? -- Chapter 2 Taking a Closer Look at the Police Officer Tests -- Knowing What You're Up Against on the Written Test -- The structure of the National Police Officer Selection Test (POST) |
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The structure of the New York City (NYC) Police Officer's Entrance Exam -- Getting the Lowdown on the Other Police Officer Tests -- The physical ability test (PAT) -- The oral interview -- The medical exam -- The psychological evaluation -- Part 2 Breaking Down the National Police Officer Selection Test (POST) and the NYC Test -- Chapter 3 Solving Basic Math Questions on the POST -- What Do Math Questions Look Like? -- Ditching your calculator -- Addition questions -- Subtraction questions -- Multiplication questions -- Division questions -- Determining Percentages -- What is a percent? |
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How to find a percentage -- Finding Averages -- What is an average? -- How to find an average -- Picking an Answer if You Don't Know It -- Practice Math Questions -- Chapter 4 Reading Between the Lines: Reading Comprehension -- Comprehending the Reading Comprehension Section on the POST -- Longer passages -- Definition passages -- Practice Questions for the POST Reading Comprehension Section -- Examining the Reading Comprehension Questions on the New York City Test -- Written comprehension passages -- Information ordering passages -- Inductive reasoning passages -- Deductive reasoning passages |
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Problem sensitivity questions -- Practice Questions for the NYC Reading Comprehension Section -- Chapter 5 Expressing Yourself with Proper Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling -- Acing Grammar Questions -- Choosing the correct verb tense -- Watching out for subject-verb agreement -- Picking the correct pronoun -- Using the right adjective -- Identifying complete sentences and fragments -- Pluralizing nouns -- Excelling at Spelling Questions -- Practice Grammar and Spelling Questions -- Chapter 6 Stretching Your Memory and Visualization Skills |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Getting the Lowdown on Memory and Observation Questions on the NYC Test |
| Subject |
Police -- United States -- Examinations, questions, etc
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Police
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Examinations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119860563 |
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1119860563 |
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9781119860570 |
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1119860571 |
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