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The ones to be upset at is at the school's (Fast Track & The Key, IDK about KSA material).... Why was Rising Star the only school that knew to prepare their students for leadership, grammar and math questions...
These schools jumped the gun on the tentative date of the propose exam, started courses, made publications & collected money etc.... Both of these schools have Supervisors of "Higher Rank" teaching their courses, such as Chiefs, Inspectors etc...
In my opinion, these schools should have investigated futher to provide their students with the best material.... when the updated Notice of Examination was sent out, the Fast Track gave a warning about the posibility of Leadership questions, but stopped there....
So, I have no bad taste in my mouth after 4 hard days of being upset but i accepted the exam giving... but in reality, what are we really upset about... Grammar, math, leadership questions???? that's a pretty pathetic to be upset at that...
Personally I know I dropped the ball in those questions but is my fault... I Feel the schools made great money and actually didn't prepare me because what they taught was about 70% of the exam.... Come on, Fast Track and The Key have Chiefs that work or own the schools, they investigated when the next promotional exams will be released so they can start collecting money but not whats going to be on the exam...
Sorry for not writing in Standard Proper English... I'm signed up for English 101, winter class at John Jay to imporve, charging NYPD the bill... lol
The people to be mad at are not the exam writers! Blame the job for not having more control over DCAS changing the format of the exam and not letting us know to be prepared!!!! From what I heard DCAS changed the percentage of where and what type of questions are written.
The Key covered grammar and math extensively in the first week, and in the first cram.
People are mad at the schools for not having a crystal ball and realizing that dcas was going to change the way things have been done for 30 years, get over yourself.
And yes, it is very easy to be mad at the exam writers. Not because of what was tested, that may or may not have been their idea. But the PG questions were vague and horribly written, containing mis-spellings and poor grammar, with multiple or no right answers in many cases.
Dude are you serious? Blame absolutely rests with the test writers. Many people don't know how the writing of a test works. The examiners are given topics that the department wants tested. The actual writing of the questions is then left solely up to them. The department says "test them on discipline." normally one would write a question from 206 possibly even (and I know this sounds crazy) looking for a section that involves.....ready.....A LIEUTENANT. But what did these examiners do...they went to discipline from a dept vehicle accident that isn't even in the scope of a lt duties. They furthermore went to every gray area and conflict in the p.g.
I can honestly tell you these test writers did not care if you knew the procedure. It was a "I'm smarter than you" game.
-- Edited by RISING IDIOT on Thursday 3rd of November 2011 12:53:22 PM
Whoever wrote those awful PG questions and in basket needs some highway therapy. Along with whoever approved or signed off on them. Im not blaming them for the leadership math and grammar, I'm sure that was "higher authority" Can't blame the key or Fast Track, they just take their best guess at what will show up. What needs to be done is someone in the Dept (high ranking official) has to stand up and say we need to streamline this testing process, and give some better guidelines as to what will be tested. Look at the NOE, it says the CPL, VTL, Family Court act, etc are all fair game. For all we know, there may be 25 VTL questions on the next Lt. test.
