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A RankHigh diagnostic result of 9 out of 12, naming Deductive Reasoning and Information Ordering as the biggest score opportunity and reporting that all 2 of 2 Deductive Reasoning questions were missed, above a personalized plan whose two priorities are those same areas and whose first session is about fifteen minutes of targeted practice, three missed-question reviews and one high-confidence miss brought back first.
Why you missed it
Two answered options from a RankHigh rule-application question. The option marked “Correct answer” with a tick reads “A red buoy, because it is more than 500 feet from the pontoon”; the option marked “You chose this” with a cross reads “No red buoy, because the depth is greater than 6 feet”.

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30 programs · 5 states · on sale now

  • New York · Police

    New York Local Police Officer

    One state-developed written test, administered by local civil service agencies for Police Officer, Patrol Officer and Deputy Sheriff

    Prepared scope and limits shown clearly · Guided practice and review · 90 days of access

  • California · Fire

    California FCTC Firefighter

    One statewide written test whose score joins the FCTC Statewide Eligibility List for twelve months, used by over 170 California fire departments

    Prepared scope and limits shown clearly · Guided practice and review · 90 days of access

  • Federal · Federal law enforcement

    Federal Border Patrol Agent

    Two parts — a Candidate Experience Record and a computer-adaptive Logical Reasoning Test — and you must pass to stay in the process. A failing score means a 90-day wait before you can retest

    Prepared scope and limits shown clearly · Guided practice and review · 90 days of access

  • Illinois · Police

    Illinois State Police Master Sergeant

    The Merit Board weights the Job Knowledge Exam and Assessment Exercise together at 95% of the final score, with seniority worth up to 5% — the Board's current page does not publish how the 95% splits between the written exam and the Assessment Exercise

    Prepared scope and limits shown clearly · Guided practice and review · 180 days of access

  • New York · Public Safety

    NYC School Safety Agent

    A computer-based DCAS examination measuring nine cognitive abilities, offered on rolling exam numbers through the year

    Preparation across the published written areas · Guided practice and review · 90 days of access

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Your prep should tell you what to do next.

Every program runs the same three steps against its own examination: find the gap, work the gap, understand what you got wrong.

  1. 01

    Start

    See where to focus first

    A short diagnostic finds your weakest abilities from real evidence, so training starts on what actually costs you points instead of a guess.

    A RankHigh diagnostic result of 9 out of 12, naming Deductive Reasoning and Information Ordering as the biggest score opportunity and reporting that all 2 of 2 Deductive Reasoning questions were missed, above a personalized plan whose two priorities are those same areas and whose first session is about fifteen minutes of targeted practice, three missed-question reviews and one high-confidence miss brought back first.
  2. 02

    Train

    Know what to work on next

    Sessions weighted toward the abilities costing you the most and sized to the time you actually have, so you never have to decide what deserves it. Open it and it tells you the one thing to do today.

    The RankHigh Today screen showing a fifteen-minute session focused on Verbal Comprehension and Verbal Expression, with 72% written accuracy across 72 questions answered and all six ability areas covered.
  3. 03

    Learn

    Understand why you missed it

    Why the correct answer works and why the tempting one doesn’t — for every question, right or wrong, with the wording that made it hard named rather than left for you to spot.

    A completed RankHigh question showing the chosen answer marked wrong in red, the correct answer in green, and an explanation covering why each alternative fails.

Correct doesn’t always mean understood.

RankHigh records how sure you were alongside whether you were right, which is what separates a lucky guess from something you have actually learned — a difference a raw score hides completely.

This is a real question out of a real free diagnostic, shown mid-answer. Nothing on this page is a mock-up.

Verbal Expression

These five sentences belong in one short note home from a school office, but they are printed out of order. 1. She was seen by the first aider, who found no swelling and no cut. 2. Maya slipped on a wet floor outside the hall at about eleven o'clock. 3. We would be grateful if you could keep an eye on her this evening. 4. She went back to lessons after twenty minutes and has been fine since. 5. The first aider advised that no further treatment was needed.

Which order reads correctly?

  • 2, 1, 5, 4, 3
  • 2, 1, 4, 5, 3
  • 1, 2, 5, 4, 3
  • 2, 5, 1, 4, 3

How sure are you?

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From the Massachusetts Municipal Firefighter free diagnostic. The answer is not given away here — work it through yourself.

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Where an examination ranks candidates, passing is only the floor — the score decides the order of the list. So a program is built around what that test measures, not around a bank of general aptitude questions with an exam’s name on it.

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Exam-specific

Each program is built around the abilities and components that particular examination actually tests, in the formats its administrator publishes.

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Focused

Training responds to your results instead of handing every candidate the same path through the same list.

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Transparent

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Is prep the same for every exam?
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Does RankHigh guarantee a passing score?
No, and be careful with anyone who does. What this does is show you which areas are costing you points and give you focused practice on them. The work is still yours to do.

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