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NYS DOCCS Correction Sergeant Written Exam Prep
Exam authority: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision · New York
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NYS DOCCS Correction Sergeant Written Exam Prep
Prepares the New York State DOCCS Correction Sergeant (promotional)
Complete written exam prep across all three subject areas DOCCS's own announcement names, with every question citing the Manual section or directive it was written from.
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- 3 prepared areas
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- Cited on every question
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What this prepares
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- Supervision in a Correctional Facility
- Controlling Emergency Situations and Maintaining Security
Every question names the published provision it was written from.
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 own escapes-and-emergencies section is redacted in DOCCS's public posting and is not 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 own escapes-and-emergencies section is redacted in DOCCS's public posting and is not reconstructed or guessed at here
- The seniority and veterans' credit are arithmetic on your service record and are not something preparation can change
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- Practice questions
- 256 outside the reserved simulations
- Worked explanations
- Every served question, including the wrong options
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Rules, Regulations and Procedures
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NYS DOCCS Correction Sergeant · Today
Example — not your history
Today’s training
15 minutes
Approximately 10–15 questions
Focused on your weakest areas
Rules, Regulations and Procedures + Supervision in a Correctional Facility
Your areas
- Rules, Regulations and ProceduresNeeds work58% · 24 answered
- Supervision in a Correctional FacilityDeveloping71% · 31 answered
- Controlling Emergency Situations and Maintaining SecurityStrong88% · 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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The questions you missed come back, each with a worked explanation.
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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
This is DOCCS's own state exam, not the county-jail test
New York runs two entirely separate correction-sergeant written examinations. County jails and sheriff's departments use the First Line Correction Supervisors Series, prepared by the NYS Department of Civil Service and administered locally by each county. DOCCS's state prisons use their own exam — number 31-109010, open only to DOCCS employees — with its own three subject areas and its own source list: the Employee Manual, the Incarcerated Individual Rule Book, and DOCCS directives. If your eligibility runs through DOCCS rather than a county civil service agency, this is your exam.
What RankHigh covers in this exam
- Rules, Regulations and Procedures
- 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 Sergeant (promotional)
- Administered by
- New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
- Exam number
- 31-109010
- Rank
- Sergeant
RankHigh preparation
Preparation for the NYS DOCCS Correction Sergeant written promotional examination.
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- Administered by
- NYS DOCCS, for DOCCS employees only
- Exam number
- 31-109010
- 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 Sergeant (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
- Provision references on source-backed practice
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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
- Every question names the source it was written from
- 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.
- Every question names the source it was written from
- Every one of them cites the published provision the answer rests on — 236 different ones in all — so any answer here can be checked against the document itself rather than taken on our word. Where the published material is revised, the reference is what makes finding the affected questions a search rather than a re-read. A citation is a statement about provenance and nothing more: it says where the question came from, not that the answer is 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 county-jail Correction Sergeant test?
No. This prepares DOCCS's own state promotional exam (31-109010), open only to DOCCS employees. The county-jail First Line Correction Supervisors Series is a separate examination, prepared by the Department of Civil Service and administered by each county's own civil service agency, with a different subject-area list and a different source of law.
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, including its own escapes-and-emergencies section, which is completely redacted. RankHigh does not claim, guess at, or reconstruct that withheld content. The emergency and security module is instead built from DOCCS's own public Use-of-Force directive and its public fire-safety section, both read in full.
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.
What does the score actually decide?
The written score, with seniority credit (one credit per five-year period, excluding the first year) and wartime veterans' credit added afterward, places you on a statewide DOCCS promotional eligible list. DOCCS does not publish a passing score for this administration.
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 Sergeant written test?What three areas does DOCCS's own Correction Sergeant exam actually test?
- The DOCCS Employee Manual, and what it does not show youWhich parts of DOCCS's own Employee Manual are public, and which are withheld?
- Supervision in a correctional facility, DOCCS's wayWhat does DOCCS expect a Sergeant to do when directing and evaluating staff?
- Controlling emergency situations and maintaining securityWhat actually governs force and emergency response when the Manual's own section is withheld?
- Eligibility and how the DOCCS Sergeant score is usedWho can sit this exam, and what happens to the score once it is scored?
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.