NYC Correction Officer Practice Test: 33 Free Questions

Correct answer: B. Kovac missed the meal because he was at the clinic, which is one of the three reasons the rule names, and Officer Ruiz is ordering before the 8:00 PM deadline. Mendez was on a family visit, and the rule covers only a legal visit. Being asleep or in the shower are other reasons, and the rule gives no late tray for them.

Correct answer: D. Only Grant's two answered calls count, which uses up his two regular free calls, but the rule gives one extra free call to an admission who must arrange care for a child under 18. That call must be made now, because no free call may be made after he leaves intake. Denying the call because he made three calls wrongly counts the unanswered one, and denying it because he used two calls overlooks the extra call for child care.

Correct answer: A. The girl turns 5 next week, which means she is still under 5 today, and Petrov has a red ID card. Both rule 1 and rule 2 apply, and rule 3 sends the visit to Booth Room B. Tables 1 to 4 would follow rule 1 alone, Tables 9 to 12 would follow rule 2 alone, and any open table is only for visits where neither rule applies.

Correct answer: C. The timer runs only Monday through Friday, and the lobby read 58 degrees on Saturday but about 70 degrees on weekdays. The 58-degree reading confirms the complaints, and the doors stay closed between groups. The warm weekday readings show that the heat is not failing every morning, which rules out the last option.

Correct answer: A. Every misdelivered letter went to the old cell of an inmate who moved on Monday, and the list was printed the night before the moves. The mail officer is not new, since one officer has done the job for a year. Letters for inmates who did not move arrive correctly, and the misdelivered letters confirm the complaints, which rules out the last two options.

Correct answer: D. Every admission without bedding left intake between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM, the same hours the laundry that now holds the bedding is locked. The new officer's start date fits, but he works the day tour, not those overnight hours. Deliveries are unchanged at 40 a week, and admissions who left at other hours had bedding, which rules out the other two options.

Correct answer: A. Officer Ortiz has finished steps 1 and 2, and step 3 is to count the group again inside the sally area. Waiting for the first gate to close is step 4, and asking for the second gate is step 5, which both come after the count. She already radioed the control room in step 1.

Correct answer: C. The keyed order tests the radio first, counts next, reads the logbook before the keys change hands, and ends with the sign-out. Of the other orders, one hands over the keys before the count, one reads the logbook before the radio test, and one reads the logbook after the keys are handed over. Each of those breaks one stated rule.

Correct answer: B. Mr. Chen has the only legal visit and goes first, and Ms. Okoro's son is under 2, which puts her second. Ms. Alvarez signed in earliest of the others, and Mr. Boateng is there for the same inmate, Sloane, which means he is called with her, ahead of Ms. Pham. The other orders leave Boateng in his own sign-in place, use sign-in time alone, or skip the rule for a child under 2.

Correct answer: B. An average per session is the total number of visitors divided by the number of sessions, and there were 4 sessions: 144 ÷ 4 = 36 visitors. Dividing by 2 treats the morning and the afternoon as the sessions. (41 + 29) ÷ 2 averages only the highest and lowest sessions, and the plain sum is the day's total, not an average.

Correct answer: D. There will be 31 + 46 = 77 people on the floor, and 77 ÷ 12 is about 6.4. Six officers cover only 72 people, which means a seventh officer is needed for the other 5. The answers 3 and 4 count only the inmates or only the visitors, and 6 rounds down instead of up.

Correct answer: C. In the 4 hours from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM, intake processes 32 admissions while 24 arrive, which leaves 14 + 24 minus 32 = 6 waiting at 3:00 AM. Those 6 take 45 minutes at 8 per hour, and intake is clear at 3:45 AM. The time 1:45 AM ignores the new arrivals, 3:00 AM assumes the line is gone when arrivals stop, and 6:00 AM treats the arrivals as if they never stop.

Correct answer: C. The notice moves Webb from Cell 14 to Cell 22 at 4:30 PM. Cell 14 is the cell he is leaving. The number 9 is the housing area, and 46 is the number of inmates in the area at the count.

Correct answer: B. The east shower is out of order until Monday, and the notice says to use the west shower. The east shower is the broken one. Friday is the day of the shift change, not the day the shower will be fixed.

Correct answer: A. Bus 3 arrived from Harbor Court at 11:55 PM with 6 admissions. Bus 7, with 9 admissions, was the earlier bus, which came from North Court at 10:40 PM. The other two options mix the bus number of one arrival with the admission count of the other.

Correct answer: A. The buses used 38 + 27 + 46 = 111 wristbands, and 5 were spoiled, for 116 in all. 250 minus 116 leaves 134. The answer 139 forgets the spoiled wristbands, 144 adds them back instead of taking them away, and 161 skips the second bus.

Correct answer: B. The five deposits total $45.00 + $120.00 + $37.50 + $60.25 + $18.75 = $281.50. Taking away the returned $37.50 leaves $244.00. $281.50 forgets the return, $319.00 adds the $37.50 a second time, and $206.50 subtracts it twice.

Correct answer: C. The whole hours add to 1 + 2 + 1 = 4, and the minutes add to 25 + 50 + 10 + 35 + 45 = 165. Since 165 minutes is 2 hours 45 minutes, the total is 6 hours 45 minutes. 6 hours 5 minutes comes from adding the times as decimals (1.25 + 0.50 + 2.10 + 0.35 + 1.45 = 5.65) and reading that as 5 hours 65 minutes, 5 hours 45 minutes carries only 1 hour from the minutes, and 7 hours 45 minutes carries 3.

Correct answer: D. An inmate who has stopped at a side door, out of the escort officer's sight, is no longer under her control and could leave the group or meet someone. The wet floor already has a sign, which means the hazard is marked, and the group can walk past it with care. Talking about a game and asking about dinner are ordinary and need no action.

Correct answer: B. Brandt left for the clinic 90 minutes ago on a trip of less than 10 minutes, and no arrival was ever confirmed, which means nobody can say where he is. Lugo left only 6 minutes before the shift change and may still be on his way. Soto's and Okafor's trips were confirmed, and Okafor is already back in the area.

Correct answer: C. Pace's X-ray starts at 10:40 AM and takes about 30 minutes, which means he would be walked back at about 11:10 AM, while the count is under way. Whitley is in the law library from before 11:00 AM until well after the count and is simply counted there. The gym group is back by 10:45 AM, and the kitchen workers move at 11:40 AM, after the count has usually cleared.

Correct answer: A. North is at the top of the map. Intake is in the top row, at the left, and the Clinic is two rows lower and to the right, which puts Intake up and to the left: northwest. Intake is not level with the Clinic, which rules out plain west, and it is north of the Clinic, not south, while northeast would place it to the right.

Correct answer: B. The arrow on the west hallway, beside Housing Area 1, points north, which means he cannot walk south down that hallway from the top hallway. He must go east along the top hallway and down past the Clinic: 7 squares to the Roll Call Room, 8 to the Mailroom and 9 to the Gym. Housing Area 2 looks closest, but the only way there is around the east side, which takes 11 squares.

Correct answer: D. The arrow on the hallway square beside the Clinic points south, which means she cannot walk straight north from the Roll Call Room. She walks 5 squares west along the lower hallway, 1 square north past the arrow beside Housing Area 1, and 5 squares east along the top hallway, 11 in all. The answer 3 is the straight route north that the arrow does not allow, and 9 and 10 leave squares out of the count.

Correct answer: C. Coming in through the South Door, she faces north, the same way the drawing is printed, so her left is west. The near left corner is on the door's side of the room and to the west, which is the southwest corner, where the Cone Rack is. The Lockers are in the far left corner, the Radio Charger is in the far right corner, and the Booth is in the near right corner, which is the answer if left and right are mixed up.

Correct answer: A. After the swap, the Sleeves are in the top middle compartment, where the Ribbon was. A quarter turn counterclockwise moves the top edge of the tray to the left side, so the top middle compartment moves to the middle left. Middle right is the answer if the tray is turned clockwise instead. Bottom right comes from forgetting the swap, and Top left comes from forgetting the swap and also turning clockwise.

Correct answer: D. Turning the original a quarter turn clockwise puts the Bookcase at the top left, the TV Stand down the right side at the top, the Kiosk at the bottom left and the Phones at the bottom right, which matches Plan D. Plan B looks the same except that the Phones and the Kiosk have traded places. Plan A is the original flipped left to right, as in a mirror. Plan C is the room turned and then flipped, which puts the TV Stand at the bottom right instead of the top right.

Correct answer: A. The memo says that an inmate at court or at the clinic during the holiday dinner receives a holiday tray when he returns. There is no separate lunch, and the meal from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM is the holiday dinner, with only a light meal at 7:00 PM. Special-diet inmates keep their usual special trays, and breakfast moves from 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM.

Correct answer: D. The directive says that when an inmate cannot continue, the officer stops the whole group and radios for a second officer, and the group does not move until that officer arrives. Leaving the inmate to rest and finishing the escort, or reporting a new count of 8 and moving on, both move the group before help arrives. Walking everyone back also moves the group, and the inmate has said he cannot keep walking.

Correct answer: C. A medical move may be made at once when the clinic agrees, with the captain told afterward, and 2:00 PM is neither a count time nor after 9:00 PM. The same move at 9:30 PM breaks the 9:00 PM limit. Only the captain approves other requests, and an infraction 3 weeks ago falls within the 30 days that require a denial, whatever the bunk.

Correct answer: B. The keyed entry gives the time, both names, the reason and how early the visit ended, in two complete sentences. One option joins two sentences with only a comma, and one leaves out the time. The last option gives a reason, an argument, that the facts do not show.

Correct answer: A. The keyed entry records every time and the exact numbers: 46 trays, 49 inmates and 3 more trays. One option swaps the tray count and the inmate count, which would make the call for more trays make no sense. One leaves out the 12:10 PM time of the call, and one replaces the numbers with vague words such as "short" and "the rest."

Correct answer: D. The keyed version says who handed the note to whom, whom it was taken from, what it said and when it went to the captain. One version says "I took it from him," which could mean either inmate, and one reverses who handed the note to whom. The third adds "secretly," a judgment the facts do not support.