A trooper drives 72 miles to Springfield Barracks in 90 minutes. What is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Verbal Reasoning & Vocabulary
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On the LEAB CAT cognitive section you have 30 multiple-choice items. If you answer 24 correctly, what percentage is correct?
Civil Service Basics, Notices, and Scoring Strategy
1.1 Decode the Civil Service Exam Notice
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A cruiser uses 14 gallons of fuel to cover 308 miles on the Mass Pike. What is the fuel efficiency in miles per gallon?
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A barracks roster has 15 troopers. Three are on personal day. What percentage of the roster is absent?
A map of Route 9 uses a scale of 1 inch = 4 miles. Two exits are 3.5 inches apart on the map. How many miles apart are they?
Question · Medium
Analogy: name the relationship
An incident occurs at 16:38 and the responding trooper arrives at 17:04. How many minutes is the response time?
1.2 Format, Scoring, and Eligibility Lists
A trooper logs 45.7 miles on Monday, 62.4 on Tuesday, and 38.9 on Wednesday. What is the three-day total?
Professional-to-person-served analogy
If 3x + 11 = 26, what is x?
Passage: "Massachusetts State Police troopers patrol all interstate highways and respond to incidents across the Commonwealth's 351 cities and towns. The MSP also provides specialized services such as the Marine Unit, K-9 Unit, and Air Wing." According to the passage, which is NOT listed as an MSP specialized service?
Diligent
Passage: "All evidence transferred between troopers must be documented in the chain-of-custody log, including the date, time, names of both troopers, and the reason for transfer." If a log entry omits the time, the entry is:
1.3 A 20-40 Hour Study Plan
Passage: "A trooper's primary duty during a critical incident is to preserve life, then secure the scene, then preserve evidence." If a trooper chooses to bag evidence before checking for injured victims, the trooper:
Impartial
Passage: "The trooper's demeanor must remain professional, even when verbally provoked by the subject." In this sentence, "demeanor" most nearly means:
Passage: "Troopers must distinguish between observation (what they personally saw) and information (what others reported) when writing reports." If a trooper writes, "The witness stated she saw a blue pickup flee north on I-93," this sentence is:
Prudent
Passage: "All complaints against troopers are reviewed by the MSP Office of Professional Integrity within 30 days. Sustained complaints are referred to the disciplinary review board within an additional 21 days." A sustained complaint must reach the review board within how many days of filing at the latest?
1.4 Test-Day Accuracy and Pacing
Passage: "Troopers should refrain from speculative statements about a subject's intent." If a report says, "The driver probably intended to elude police," the statement is:
Mitigate
Passage: "A traffic stop may not be extended beyond the time reasonably needed to address the violation that prompted it, absent independent reasonable suspicion of another crime." If a trooper prolongs a stop 25 minutes without new reasonable suspicion, that prolongation is:
Place the following actions in correct chronological order for an incident report: (1) trooper ran the registration, (2) trooper initiated the stop, (3) trooper observed the vehicle run a red light, (4) trooper issued the citation.
Onerous
Choose the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement.
Verbal Reasoning and Workplace Vocabulary
2.1 Workplace Vocabulary For Public Service
Choose the sentence with correct verb-tense consistency.
Candid
Choose the sentence with correct punctuation.
Choose the sentence with correct pronoun usage.
Main idea vs. supporting detail
Reading Comprehension
A trooper recovers $1,800 in stolen property. The owner offers an 8% reward, but the trooper declines per MSP policy. What dollar amount is declined?
2.2 Synonyms, Antonyms, and Context Clues
A pursuit covers 0.6 miles in 4 minutes. What is the pace in miles per hour?
Question · Hard
Stated detail questions
Choose the sentence that is NOT a run-on.
Choose the sentence with correct comma usage.
Inference questions
Passage: "Use of deadly force is authorized only when a trooper reasonably believes such force is necessary to prevent imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the trooper or another person." Deadly force is NOT authorized to:
2.3 Analogies and Word Relationships
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