NYS Police Trooper Exam
NYS Trooper SUV
On January 3, 2022, the New York State Police started using a new computerized Trooper Entrance Exam developed by the test publishing company, IOS. The State Police have also contracted with Pearson VUE, which now offers the Trooper Entrance Exam at 54 testing centers in New York State, more than 250 locations in the United States, and 112 military locations around the world.
This 2022 Trooper Entrance Exam is different from the NYS Civil Service Police Exam used by most law enforcement agencies in New York State. It is also different than the NYPD Exam and the Port Authority Police Officer Exam. On this page, you will learn what the new NYSP Exam consists of and how best to prepare for it.
Questions on the New York State Police Trooper Exam
Study for the 2022 NYS Police Exam.
The New York State Police Trooper exam now has 150 questions that you will have 1 hour and 40 minutes to complete. The exam includes the following cognitive test topics.
Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary
Writing (Incident Report Writing)
Deductive Reasoning
Information Ordering
Inductive Reasoning
Pattern Recognition (Figural Reasoning)
Grammar (Clarity, Punctuation, Spelling)
Visualization - Facial Recognition
Spatial Orientation - Maps and Floorplans
Flexibility of Closure - Identify details in noisy background)
Observation and Recall of Visual Information (Photos)
Following the cognitive topics, you will take a Personality Assessment. You will have 20-minutes to answer approximately 60 questions about how you feel about certain things. These go fast, as your answers should be instinctive.