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How the New York Local Police Lieutenant exam is scored

A seniority credit is added to a passing score and it is capped. What the passing score itself is, the Department's guide does not say — and that gap is worth knowing about before you trust a number you find elsewhere.

Passing score
Not published in the Department's guide
Seniority (Orange County)
0.4 points a year, maximum 8.0
Eligible list
Your own agency's, from its own sitting

The passing score is not in the guide

"Passing grade" and "passing score" both return zero hits in the Second- and Third-Line Police Supervisors guide. Numbers do circulate for this title — 70 is the usual one, and it may well be right — but the document that would settle it is your own agency's examination announcement, not the state guide.

We would rather tell you the number is not published than repeat one we cannot source. If a site quotes you a passing mark for this examination, ask which document it came from.

Seniority is added, not blended

Orange County publishes its formula: 0.4 points for each year of service, to a maximum of 8.0 points after twenty years, added to a passing score. The wording matters — a failing score is not rescued by long service, because the credit is added after you have passed.

Your seniority is fixed by your service record before you sit down. That makes the written test the only part of your standing you can still change, which is unusual: many promotional processes put an oral board or an assessment centre alongside the paper, and the sources read for this title publish none.

A promotional list does not travel

Each local civil service agency establishes its own eligible list from its own sitting, under its own examination number. You compete against the other officers eligible in your own jurisdiction, and the score does not follow you to another employer.

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