New York Firefighter Exam Prep

The guide publishes neither. We searched it: it states no number of questions and no time allowance, for the test as a whole or for any section. So RankHigh will not quote one. The practice tests here are 48 questions in 75 minutes, which is RankHigh's own pace for rehearsal and not a claim about the length of your exam.

The series test guide states none — the words 'passing' and 'score' do not appear in it. Check your own examination announcement, because the appointing jurisdiction is what states the rating rule. What the announcements do make clear is that the resulting eligible list is what vacancies are filled from, so where you sit on it matters as well as clearing the mark.

No, and this is the single most useful thing to know about that section. The guide says all the information needed is provided in the training lesson and that candidates will be able to refer to it while answering the questions. It is open book. What is being measured is finding a value and combining two parts of the lesson under time, not recall — so preparation that drills memorization is training the wrong thing. The lesson also describes a piece of equipment that does not exist, which the guide says was created for the exam, so nothing you already know about real equipment helps.

The guide says candidates should bring a hand-held battery- or solar-powered calculator for the basic arithmetic section, and that the calculator function on a cell phone is not permitted. Check your own announcement as well, since the jurisdiction administering the test sets what may be brought into the room.

Because this guide publishes the standard. It prints the four-point effectiveness scale with each point defined by the outcome it is likely to produce, gives a worked scenario, and then states the correct rating and the reason for every one of its five sample responses. That is what makes the section coachable here. It is worth knowing that the Department's entry-level POLICE guide does not do this — it keys none of its situational samples — which is why RankHigh's police product does not prepare that section and this one does.

No. New York City runs its own firefighter examination through the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, with its own notice and its own filing periods. This product prepares the state-prepared Firefighter Series that local civil service agencies elsewhere in New York administer. The guide's own cover also excludes Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, which run their own examinations.