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Have a question? Contact me at: ask_the_team@jobtestprep.comThe NYS/NYC Correctional Officer Exam assesses your ability to become a New York State Correctional Officer and serve in a local Correctional Facility. To be considered for appointment, you are required to pass a written test for correction officers. Your final score must be 70% or higher, the same as score requirements for other Civil Service exams in New York state. The test consists of 100 multiple choice questions to be answered in a 3.5-hour period.
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The written test will measure your skills and knowledge in the following areas:
Assesses your ability to read, interpret and apply rules, regulations, directives, written narratives and other related material. Correctional Officers need to be capable of understanding, applying and working with rules and other written content they may encounter in their correctional facility.
Applying Written Information Sample Questions
1. Read the text and answer the following question.
Before you go to bed at night...
Turn electrical products that aren't designed to be kept on, off, whenever possible. Fridges and freezers are obviously meant to be on all the time but turning off items such as the TV at the mains, rather than leaving it on standby, reduces your chances of a fire breaking out.
Unplug (or turn the switch off if the socket has one) phone chargers, toasters, irons and the like. Avoiding overloading plug sockets is vital - one plug per socket is best to limit the chances of overheating. If you can't manage that, bar-style extension leads are safer than square blocks with a socket on each face.
Shutting internal doors wherever possible as part of your bedtime routine can buy extra time in a fire to get everyone out once a smoke alarm has gone off. A closed door won't prevent smoke reaching the detector as there will normally be enough of a gap around its edges and alarms are sensitive to quite small amounts of smoke.
Which of the following statements is correct?
2. Read the text and answer the following question.
The dangers of cigarettes
Carelessly discarded cigarettes and other smoking materials are a major cause of fire. A cigarette can smolder for several hours, especially when surrounded by combustible material.
Many fires are started several hours after the smoking materials have been emptied into waste bags and left for future disposal.
It is worthwhile to consider prohibiting smoking in your premises other than in the designated smoking areas. Display suitable signs throughout the premises informing people of the smoking policy and the locations where smoking is permitted.
In those areas where smoking is permitted, provide non-combustible deep and substantial ashtrays to help prevent unsuitable containers being used. Empty all ashtrays daily into a metal waste bin and take it outside. It is dangerous to empty ashtrays into plastic waste sacks which are then left inside for disposal later.
According to the article, why are cigarettes so dangerous?
Tests your ability to observe, memorize and recall information describing or depicting prison scenes. This is critical for correctional officers who work in correctional facilities in which such scenarios may occur.
Observing and Recalling Facts and Information Sample Questions
Go over the following text for 10 minutes, and then answer the following questions without going back to the text.
Police Accident Investigation Report:
On 4/27/04 at approximately 10:40pm, I arrived at Thomas Dr. and Quarts St. to assist with a crash that had occurred there. When I arrived, I saw a black motorcycle lying in the roadway with damage to the front of the vehicle. I then drove to 3614 Hill Top Dr. Panama City Beach Florida, which was north of the crash scene, where I met with Sgt. Rafael Stewart. While there, I advised Sgt. Stewart that I would handle the crash from that point on due to the fact that he had been on duty since 10am. Due to the severity of the injuries in the crash, it would have required him to stay on duty for a longer period of time. Sgt. Stewart advised me that he had placed John Jacob Christo Jr. (ID by his Florida driver's licenses 4C623-254-59-481-0) under arrest for leaving the scene of the crash with injuries. I then walked over to the Toyota Camery parked in the driveway at 3614 Hill Top Dr. When I walked around to the passenger side of the vehicle, I saw extensive damage to the vehicle which was consistent with the damage to the motorcycle.
Sgt. Stewart also showed me where a small amount of marijuana and a marijuana pipe was located in the front driver’s floor board on the right corner closest to the driver's seat. I then took possession of the marijuana and marijuana pipe. Sgt. Stewart explained that the motorcycle was traveling west in the right lane of Thomas Dr. and that the Camery was traveling east on Thomas Dr., turning left onto Quarts St. As the Camery made the left turn, it was driven into the path of the motorcycle resulting in the crash. I then took Mr. Christo out of Sgt. Stewart's car and placed him in my patrol car. An ambulance with Bay Medical arrived at the scene upon Cpl. Baker's request to get blood due to the severity of the injuries of the motorcycle rider.
At approximately 11:00pm while in the back of the ambulance, I asked Mr. Christo if he would provide two samples of his blood and he said that he would.
At approximately 11:10pm, paramedic Connie drew blood from Mr. Christo's inner left arm. I then transported Mr. Christo back to the scene of the crash prior to transporting him to the FHP station on CR 3321. While at the scene of the crash, I saw where the collision occurred. I saw where the motorcycle came to rest and that the motorcycle rider came to rest west of the collision which was consistent with what Sgt. Stewart had told me about the directions of travel.
Once at the station, I weighted the marijuana which weighted one gram. I then transported Mr. Christo to the Bay County Jail where he was booked. While Mr. Christo was in my company, I could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from him and stronger as he spoke.
After leaving the jail, I went back to the FHP station where I spoke to Cpl. Baker. Cpl. Baker advised me that Lt. Bob Harris with the Bay County Sheriff's office located the vehicle with Mr. Christo still sitting in the driver's seat behind the steering wheel. Cpl. Baker also told me that Mr. Christo admitted to driving the vehicle when the crash occurred after reading him his Miranda Rights. This all took place in Bay County Florida.
3. Why did the reporting officer tell Sgt. Stewart he will take over the investigation?
4. Where was the marijuana pipe found?
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Measures your ability to organize paragraphs logically and comprehensibly and understand written information. Correctional Officers also need to be capable of writing reports that are comprehensible and easy to read for their fellow workers in correctional facilities.
Preparing Written Material Sample Questions
5. Select the answer choice that represents the most appropriate and effective ordering of the sentences below.
A. The new district email will provide you a better filter on your inbox.
B. We are very excited to have this new provider and want to continue using it appropriately.
C. If you are found to be in violation of this policy, your supervisor will be advised and a memo will be placed in your file.
D. It is important to remember that this is not your personal email and that all messages are being monitored.
6. Select the answer choice that represents the most appropriate and effective ordering of the sentences below.
A. E-learning systems have been used recently by major corporations.
B. By providing interactive courses using the Internet infrastructure directly to one's personal computer, and supporting the learner at their own pace, e-learning can, at times, be more effective than other conventional forms of training.
C. These systems, in most cases are used as an economical replacement for the long established leadership development programs.
D. With the leadership role becoming increasing complex, on the one hand, and budgets for one-on-one or group training shrinking, on the other, e-learning is a simple and cost effective solution.
Here, you’ll be given the opportunity to display your ability to present, understand and interpret information clearly and accurately. Aside from rules, correctional officers need to be skilled readers in general.
All the information needed to answer the questions is contained in the set of information provided. You will not be required to have any special knowledge relating to the subject areas of the selections.
Understanding and Interpreting Written Information Sample Questions
7. Read the following text and answer the question below.
RAILROAD TRANSPORT
Europe has long benefited from a dense railway network and is the world leader in the supply of railway systems. Employing 1 million people in rail operations and another 250,000 in manufacturing, the European railway sector has a 60% share of the world market and an annual turnover of €95 billion.
Rail transport offers a viable and competitive means of shifting more cargo traffic away from the continent’s crowded roads, thus improving traffic circulation and cutting vehicle-emitted pollution. The EU places particular emphasis on stimulating new investment in trans-European transport infrastructure such as rail, and supports research efforts to create new methods of interoperability, higher safety standards and the reduction of rail-related noise levels.
One of the main advances in the EU's railway system is the recently launched MODTRAIN project. The project brings together, for the first time, all the main European rail system manufacturers, sub-system suppliers and rail operators. Working towards interoperability of national rolling-stock systems, MODTRAIN offers a radical approach to rolling-stock construction. Its goal of reducing the number of single components in a railway carriage from 1,200 to 120 parts and cutting construction time by more than 50% should give a huge boost to the sector’s competitiveness.
QUESTION: Which ONE of the following does the passage suggest about railway transport?
8. Read the following text and answer the question below.
THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION
Over the past decade, higher education has become increasingly international. More and more students choose to study abroad, enroll in foreign educational programs and institutions in their home country, or simply use the Internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries. The internationalization of higher education means that in university courses – especially but not exclusively post-graduate courses - you increasingly find someone whose mother-tongue is not English teaching a group of students, very few of whom have English as their first language. This undoubtedly affects the way people learn and how people teach. Not an insignificant amount of London University PhD students are multilingual and write in English, although French and Italian are also regular working languages, making the European University Institute (EUI) an ideal place to debate the challenges ahead for other institutions. ‘There is a kind of denationalized way of looking at the disciplines that we teach; it’s not ignoring the national traditions but we’re not so constrained by them and we tend automatically to see things from a comparative and transnational perspective. We are therefore able to start thinking seriously about what it means to teach in this way and in these international environments’, explains the president of EUI.
QUESTION: Which ONE of the following trends is described in the passage?
Preparing and passing the written exam is a first step and a great start in pursuing NYS Corrections Officer Career.
Are you serious about your career? Then you should devote your time and effort and prepare for the exam, due to the many advantages of being a Correction Officer:
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