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NYS DOCCS Correction Captain Written Exam Prep
Exam authority: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision · New York
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NYS DOCCS Correction Captain Written Exam Prep
Prepares the New York State DOCCS Correction Captain (promotional)
Fully online written exam prep across all three subject areas DOCCS's own announcement names, with every question identifying its public source basis.
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What this prepares
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- Writing Skills for Correction Captains
How RankHigh helps you prepare
- Rank-specific practice across this exam’s prepared areas
- Worked explanations after every served question
- Missed-question and due-review queues
Coverage notes
- No item count, duration, weighting or passing score is claimed — DOCCS publishes none of these for this exam
- DOCCS's own announcement names no emergency/security area for Captain, so none is claimed here
- Directive #4001 and the redacted parts of the Employees' Manual are not publicly available in full; only what is published is prepared.
- The seniority and veterans' credit are arithmetic on your service record and are not something preparation can change
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- No item count, duration, weighting or passing score is claimed — DOCCS publishes none of these for this exam
- DOCCS's own announcement names no emergency/security area for Captain, so none is claimed here
- Directive #4001 itself was not publicly obtainable; the two related items are limited to Form #4001B's printed routing and an official PREA audit's attributed description, not invented directive text
- No unavailable or redacted portion of the Employees' Manual is claimed or reconstructed
- The seniority and veterans' credit are arithmetic on your service record and are not something preparation can change
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- Practice questions
- 250 outside the reserved simulations
- Worked explanations
- Every served question, including the wrong options
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Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility
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NYS DOCCS Correction Captain · Today
Example — not your history
Today’s training
15 minutes
Approximately 10–15 questions
Focused on your weakest areas
Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility + Rules, Regulations and Procedures
Your areas
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional FacilityNeeds work58% · 24 answered
- Rules, Regulations and ProceduresDeveloping71% · 31 answered
- Writing Skills for Correction CaptainsStrong88% · 26 answered
3 items due for review · 5 of 8 areas practised this week
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One session a day, aimed at the areas that need attention.
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What you have to take
The top rung of DOCCS's uniformed promotional ladder in scope, and the narrowest exam
Correction Captain is open only to serving DOCCS Correction Lieutenants. It is the smallest of the three DOCCS promotional exams in stated scope: three subject areas rather than Sergeant's three or Lieutenant's four, and — unlike Sergeant and Lieutenant — DOCCS's own announcement names no Controlling Emergency Situations and Maintaining Security area at all. A Captain functions as an executive officer directing security staff through subordinate Lieutenants, which is reflected in what the announcement actually tests.
What RankHigh covers in this exam
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- Writing Skills for Correction Captains
Official exam information
Last successfully checked October 1, 2026- Applications
- The previous cycle has ended. The next cycle has not been publicly announced
- Written exam
- The previous cycle has ended. The next cycle has not been publicly announced
Verified exam details
- Exact exam
- New York State DOCCS Correction Captain (promotional)
- Administered by
- New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
- Exam number
- 31-121020
- Rank
- Captain
RankHigh preparation
Preparation for the NYS DOCCS Correction Captain written promotional examination.
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- Administered by
- NYS DOCCS, for DOCCS employees only
- Exam number
- 31-121020
- Subject areas
- Three, all prepared
- Seniority
- Added to a passing score
Decides your rank
Written multiple-choice test
The three subject areas the announcement names. Seniority and veterans' credit are added to a passing score afterward.
Decides your rank
Seniority credit
One credit for each five-year period of service (excluding the first year), added to a passing score, with wartime veterans' credit added after that. It is arithmetic on your service, not something preparation can change.
Official listing
New York State DOCCS Correction Captain (promotional)
Exam identity checked 2026-09-13
Everything included
- Rank-specific practice across this exam’s prepared areas
- Worked explanations after every served question
- Missed-question and due-review queues
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How this preparation is built
These are the automated checks every question goes through before it can be served. They are run over the whole bank, by software, every time it changes.
- Every question is original
- Every question carries an approval record
- Every answer is explained
- The bank is measured, not just proofread
How questions are checked
- Every question is original
- Each one is written for RankHigh. Nothing is taken from a real examination, a competitor's bank or a public question set, and every new batch is checked for duplicates against every other question in the catalog.
- Every question carries an approval record
- A question that has not been through these checks is not served at all. That is what this product serves, not what has been written.
- Every answer is explained
- All of them, not the hard ones. An explanation says why the keyed answer is right and what each of the other options gets wrong, so a question you got wrong is worth more to you than one you got right.
- The bank is measured, not just proofread
- Answer positions, answer lengths and repeated scenarios are measured across the whole bank against chance. Where a pattern would let somebody pick the answer from its shape instead of its content, the questions are repaired — because a pattern you can learn here is one that will not be there on the day.
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Questions
Why is there no emergency-and-security section for Captain?
DOCCS's own announcement for this exam (31-121020) names only three subject areas — Administrative Supervision, Rules/Regulations/Procedures, and Writing Skills — and does not mention emergency situations or security anywhere in its text, unlike the Sergeant and Lieutenant announcements. RankHigh does not add content an administrator's own current announcement does not name.
Is Administrative Supervision the same section as on the Lieutenant exam?
It is the same named subject, tested in the multiple-choice scenario format for which the New York State Department of Civil Service publishes a generic sample and worked answer key. The final Captain bank uses its own rank-level scenarios; the family integration removed every detected Lieutenant rank-swap or repeated scenario skeleton.
How many questions are on the real examination, and how long is it?
DOCCS does not publish either figure for this exam, and no test guide with a sample question exists for it.
Has a person reviewed these questions?
Not yet. Every question has been through RankHigh's automated review, and the count of questions read by a human reviewer is zero. We say so rather than letting the word 'reviewed' do work it has not earned.
Guides and resources
- What is on the NYS DOCCS Correction Captain written test?What three areas does DOCCS's own Correction Captain exam actually test?
- Captain-level Administrative Supervision, and its published rubricFor a Captain's own executive-officer duties, is there a real rubric behind this area, or a guess?
- Eligibility and how the DOCCS Captain score is usedWhich Lieutenants qualify to sit the Captain exam, and where does seniority credit fit in?
RankHigh is an independent preparation product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the New York government, or any city, county or department. Application and hiring decisions are made by the hiring authority — check the official posting for anything that decides your application.