The MTAPD exam uses the NCJOSI II test. This exam features 200 questions and is divided into two sections. It comes with a time limit of two and a half hours. The second 1 features 80 questions spread over 10 job-role-related cognitive skills.
1. Deductive Reasoning
This sort of logic involves the application of regulations and rules to the different parts of a situation. You should expect to read text that contains policies or state laws. Following each portion of the text are multiple situations. Your task is to apply the policies when deciding the most appropriate course of action to adopt for every scenario given.
2. Inductive Reasoning
This is similar to deductive reasoning as you will have to come to a logical conclusion after reading through a passage or the question. However, sometimes the questions will come in the form of a picture, a number of different scenarios, or even just a set of objects. The information provided may also be in the form of passages, tables, or charts. The test-taker will need to discover the common element, concept, rule, or sequence.
3. Flexibility of Closure
The flexibility of the Closure test involves being able to identify a pattern of information quickly in the presence of distracting information, even without all the information present. You will have to identify a key pattern that is buried within a larger, more cluttered pattern.
4. Information Gathering
This section is used to test how well you can logically sequence information. You will be required to arrange procedures in the order of occurrence. Five or six statements will be provided, and you’re to place them in their proper order by selecting the response with the correct sentence sequence.
5. Problem Sensitivity
You will be provided with a short passage, often containing a conflict of some sort that an officer of the MTAPD may encounter during their day-to-day activities. You will then need to select the most appropriate answer from a number of choices.
6. Selective Attention
You will need to learn to concentrate in the face of distractions in Selective Attention. This skill is very important when doing security checks amongst larger distractions and when recalling license place numbers. You should expect to see a complicated line of numbers, letters, and symbols.
7. Spatial Orientation
Here you will focus on checking the ability of a candidate to determine their location within a city, building, or set of structures. The NCJOSI and the MTA police exam measures this aptitude by making use of maps and layouts. As a police officer of the MTA, you will have to perform rounds, inspections, and even go on patrol around your assigned area on a regular basis.
8. Verbal Comprehension
Verbal comprehension is the ability of an individual to listen to or read spoken or written information, understand it, and apply it across a range of tasks. This part evaluates your capacity to read and comprehend English as a written language.
9. Verbal Expression
As part of an organization that provides law enforcement, a police officer of the MTA needs to be able to communicate information and ideas effectively, both through oral and written methods. As a result, this section is included in the MTA Police exam to assess if the candidate has the ability to express themselves verbally.
The questions in this section will come in the form of incomplete sentences, and you will have to choose the answer that correctly completes the sentence from the given options. Another format of the question will have the test-taker identify the word or words that are incorrectly spelled in a passage and choose amongst the choices on which is the correct number of the
10. Visualization
This part is used to examine your mental imagery skills. You will be asked to identify the original object, pattern, or person after changes in position or appearance have been made.
