Just went on the Academy website and i read the " required reading" section and this is the list. A. Nyc P.G. B. Revision notices C. Interim orders D. Operations order E. Finest messages F. Penal law/criminal procedure guide G. Crime complaint reference guide H. Legal bureau bulletins (LMAO) I. Miscellaneous Hmmm where is that supervisory book??? NOT LISTED! and this is an official NYPD sight! The SBA said that book was listed. Thats a lie! The SBA wont help us! We are on our own!

-- Edited by HB on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 11:53:55 PM

The introduction states - studying for the NYPD lieutenant exam requires a unique approach. This exam is VERY SIMILAR to the content and layout of the sgts exam. An exam which you already passed. Remember you are responsible for LOWER ranking duties and responsibilities. WHAT A CROCK OF SH!T

RISINGSTAR WAS ON POINT WITH THEIR MATERIAL. THEY COVERED ALL ASPECTS OF THE EXAM TO INCLUDE MATH, GRAMMAR AND JUDGEMENT QUESTIONS. I REGRET NOT TAKING RISINGSTAR ANYMORE SERIOUS THAN THE OTHER SCHOOLS.:(

Yea but Rising Star in an independent company. It doesnt matter if they were on point. The NYPD has to provide us with that info.

The Academy material is one of the few nice things the job does for us and only started a few years ago. You can't blame the Academy or any of the schools because DCAS decided to gave the trickiest promotional test in history. Yes Rising Star did hit the judgement stuff, that was a response to the last Captain's test which was also disastrous and was more of a CYA. Nobody saw this crap coming. Rising Star might as well throw in some pointers on RMP repair, LAN management, and HVAC next time around, just in case DCAS wants to test us on even more duties irrelevant to a Lieutenant.

Yea unborn, how many questions in there were based solely on Lieutenant's duties? Possibly none, since they constantly combined other actors? I would have to think really hard to name any? Lieutenant was the rank we were shooting for right? But we were tested on district surgeon duties, Pct CO/XO duties, Sgt duties, really how many Lt specific questions were there? Maybe the court appearance rescheduling- OC? Thats about it. Shameful...

The P.C. had a hand in this exam. Theres no way in hell he didnt know this format would be used! NYPD IS AT FAULT! Shouldve gave us the heads up so we could properly prepare ourselves!

i know examx is one...........but are there any other forums with people talking about this nightmare of a test?

The first message in this discussion is the reaaon why this exam has a chance to get thrpwn out, if anyone thinks Otherwise they are wrong. The required reading material that was needed to properly prepare for the exam was not on the offial website. Thqt along with the fact that these questions are all open to debate makes it a hihhly skeptical exam.

Sorry for the improper english I am on my smartphone.