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NYS DOCCS Correction Lieutenant Written Exam Prep
Exam authority: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision · New York
Make sure this is your examFor serving NYS DOCCS Correction Sergeants preparing for the state Lieutenant exam.
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NYS DOCCS Correction Lieutenant Written Exam Prep
Prepares the New York State DOCCS Correction Lieutenant (promotional)
Complete written exam prep across all four subject areas DOCCS's own announcement names, with every question citing the Manual section, directive, or published rubric it was written from.
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What this prepares
- Writing Skills for Correction Lieutenants
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility
- Controlling Emergency Situations and Maintaining Security
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
- The Employee Manual's redacted sections are disclosed rather than 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
- The Employee Manual's redacted sections are disclosed, not reconstructed or guessed at here
- The seniority and veterans' credit are arithmetic on your service record and are not something preparation can change
Depth and format— see the numbers
- Practice questions
- 250 outside the reserved simulations
- Worked explanations
- Every served question, including the wrong options
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Writing Skills for Correction Lieutenants
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NYS DOCCS Correction Lieutenant · Today
Example — not your history
Today’s training
15 minutes
Approximately 10–15 questions
Focused on your weakest areas
Writing Skills for Correction Lieutenants + Rules, Regulations and Procedures
Your areas
- Writing Skills for Correction LieutenantsNeeds work58% · 24 answered
- Rules, Regulations and ProceduresDeveloping71% · 31 answered
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional FacilityStrong88% · 26 answered
3 items due for review · 5 of 8 areas practised this week
StartOptional baseline
A short baseline sets your starting point. Skip it if you would rather practise.
TodayFocused practice
One session a day, aimed at the areas that need attention.
ReviewLearn from mistakes
The questions you missed come back, each with a worked explanation.
Keep goingFollow your plan
Pick up where you left off, and see how much of the exam you have covered.
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What you have to take
One rung up from Correction Sergeant — a genuinely different exam
Correction Lieutenant is DOCCS's next promotional rung above Correction Sergeant, open only to serving DOCCS Sergeants. It is not a bigger version of the Sergeant exam: the Lieutenant announcement adds a fourth subject area, Writing Skills, and scopes its rules-and-procedures area to five named categories — Labor Relations, Personnel, Support Operations, Facility Management and Security Services — that the Sergeant announcement does not name in the same way. Its Administrative Supervision area is a scenario-based 'job simulation' section, licensed here by the New York State Department of Civil Service's own published sample and worked answer key for that exact subject.
What RankHigh covers in this exam
- Writing Skills for Correction Lieutenants
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- Administrative Supervision in a Correctional Facility
- Controlling Emergency Situations and Maintaining Security
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 Lieutenant (promotional)
- Administered by
- New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
- Exam number
- 31-453020
- Rank
- Lieutenant
RankHigh preparation
Preparation for the NYS DOCCS Correction Lieutenant written promotional examination.
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- Administered by
- NYS DOCCS, for DOCCS employees only
- Exam number
- 31-453020
- Subject areas
- Four, all prepared
- Seniority
- Added to a passing score
Decides your rank
Written multiple-choice test
The four 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 Lieutenant (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
Is this the same exam as Correction Sergeant?
No. Correction Lieutenant is a separate, higher promotional exam (31-453020), open only to serving Correction Sergeants, with a fourth subject area — Writing Skills — that the Sergeant exam does not have, and a rules-and-procedures area scoped to five named categories the Sergeant announcement does not use in the same way.
What is the 'job simulation' Administrative Supervision section?
It is a multiple-choice scenario format, not a live exercise, video or interview — the announcement itself confirms 'you must pass the multiple-choice test.' The New York State Department of Civil Service publishes a generic sample of this exact subject with a full worked answer key, used across many of its promotional exams, and RankHigh's questions are built to teach that same published standard through fresh, DOCCS-specific scenarios.
Does this cover DOCCS's Employee Manual in full?
DOCCS's own public posting of its Employees' Manual withholds ten of its thirty-four sections — every one of them about physical inmate custody, a security post, or a tactical response. RankHigh does not claim, guess at, or reconstruct that withheld content. The rules-and-procedures and emergency-and-security modules are built from the sections and directives DOCCS actually publishes.
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 Lieutenant written test?What four areas does DOCCS's own Correction Lieutenant exam actually test?
- The published standard behind Administrative SupervisionIs there an actual rubric for this job-simulation area, or is it a guess?
- Eligibility and how the DOCCS Lieutenant score is usedWhich Sergeants qualify to sit the Lieutenant 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.