Yeah, definitely don't go into detail about the questions- civil service have hired agents to track down people who talk/post about it. That's why they made a big deal out of it this year.
I believe the other 2 sections of the exam gets weighted out to your overall score as well but now sure how they place a numerical value to opinionated questions. It says if you score lower than 70% on the Ability test, you fail the exam.
Wait, you took the test today and got the scores by 8pm? I'm sorry if I'm missing something that just seems insanely fast
So no extra 2 points for municipal or transit? Also I understand how you are given disabled Veterans prefers since I read just about every page on mass.gov. My question is if you're disabled more then 10% then how can you be "street ready". As someone said earlier they all get weeded out at the medical exam. Wonder if that's true.
That's a tough hit
when I was young and dumb asked the 11 to 7 shift Commander for some time off - negative !
That's what I'm trying to understand. No doubt in my mind that you can preform the job 100%. I guesss I screwed myself when I ETS'D. What did you claim for your disability?
Your a bad person
60 Days? the 2015 test was in April.. Scores didn't come out till October
Well sounds good, glad I have the vets preference then. Guess we play the waiting game until then. Gl to everyone who took the exam. Seems like everyone I spoke too seems overly confident about their score, let's see if reality take them back to earth when the scores come back.
Got two of those dreaded 96's.
You can come out of that test feeling like a million bucks and still score low in CS case a 94 and below. No one knows how the test is scored, its one big mystery, my advice would be not to wait around for the CS and try non civil towns as well as reserve academies and college departments.
Got two of those dreaded 96's.
It gives you a staggering false sense of hope only to be crushed to smithereens.
It was definitely the personality portion that toasted me. I'm certain I picked "strong" as opposed to "very strong" a few too many times.
Haha, that's awesome. About the only entertainment I saw at the Worcester test site this year was some dumbass who jumped out of line, talking to himself, with a stupid grin on his face walking back towards his car. We all asked him what happened and he said "I forgot a pencil". Pretty pathetic, but somewhat entertaining.( might have told this story before so forgive me if I'm repeating myself )
Took the "old test" back in the early nineties. It was held at the old Boston Latin just outside of Chinatown.
The troopers were already yelling at us that morning just to give you a taste of what was to come if you're lucky enough to get picked.
Apparently they ran everybody's name that applied for the test and actually arrested about 10 kids pulling them right out of the line for outstanding warrants.
It was "interesting"
How long was the line at the Worcester location? I was at the Lynn site and Jesus Christ the line circled the entire building (Lynn English high school). Which is twice the length of Boston city hall. I'm curious if the outpour was for the MSP exam since there hasn't been one in years.
Crazy long.... I was there a half hour early and we didn't get in the building to a room until 9:30 (test was supposed to start at 9). Just guessing, but I would say there were 600-700 people there.
I heard through the grapevine that this year, the total number of people taking the exam was actually a lower turnout than previous tests. But, that was just what someone said in line at the CS exam.
