Barron's Police Officer Exam, 9th Edition 9th Edition

Great for practice

I've taken several firefighter civil service exams in the past, but never "studied" for them because the information topics were so easy. However, this was my first run at a police exam, and I had heard that they include memorization pieces and a few more difficult topics.Boy am I glad I did! There are 4 practice tests, and the initial diagnostic test really opened my eyes to just how picky and tricky these questions can be. I'm normally an extremely good test-taker, but this book showed me the sly ways questions can be tweaked with just a simple word change.Upon taking my actual exam, I was pleasantly surprised - All of the practice tests in this book are 150 questions long, my exam was only 75. The memorization exercises showed me that it wasn't as scary as I previously thought.My real exam actually lacked a lot of what this book prepares you for (facial recognition, grammar testing, sentence ordering) so if anything, I was OVER-prepared.Bottom line is this - if you're serious about a police career and want to do well on the exam, going through every page of this book can only help you - and for only $13 it's a steal.Best of luck!

This definitely helped me pass the Seattle Police Officer Exam. Disappointing though, that it doesn't have the same memorization packet that Seattle and many other departments have...where you have a long chunk of time to memorizes a whole packet, then answering tons of questions about it afterwords. Instead it would give 5 or 10 minutes or so to memorize a passage or a scene, then another 5 or 10 minutes to answer multiple choice questions about it. But in general, the type of info it contains...the categories of reading comprehension and memorization were good to prime my brain for the actual test. I would definitely say that it helped me a bit, and I would definitely recommend this to a person needing practice, and practice tests (there are three in the book), for an actual police officer exam.

I found out that my application was accepted about 3-4 weeks before the entrance exam. I quickly ordered this book, went through it once, took one practice test, and got 135/160 on the actual exam. I am now part of the group to move on to the physical exam. I used this book for the Hawaii police text, big island specifically. The test consisted of only reading comprehension and writing questions - although this book covers memory and arithmetic questions as well. Not only does the book give you practice questions for each section and 3 practice tests - but it also tells you the best way to go about answering the questions to make the best use of your time. And this, I think, was what helped me the most - because the actual test had 160 reading and writing questions to be completed in 2 hours. There is also a diagnostic test at the start of the book, to find out where you need the most practice.

Very useful book. I read it cover to cover and did the practice exercises, which helped me prepare for and pass the Seattle PD written exam with a 98% score. It's not exactly the same as the SPD test, but the principles of each exercise covered everything I saw on the exam. I did NOT travel to Washington state to do one of SPD's preparatory workshops either. This book was my single study resource.

The best take away from this book will make you pay attention to the questions and answers. They aren't trick questions, but it trains you to read the entire question and all the options before you answer so you don't make those small mistakes.There are several tests that combine visual, grammar, memorization, stories, and scenarios, that again, while similar, you won't be finding any actual test questions, well at least I never came across any. Still, highly recommend to prepare.

This is a good book it provides a great variety of questions that police agencies may ask in a test. My only gripe is that I wish it had more reading memory questions and that they dedicate this book to test prep and leave the erroneous chapters to another publication. I will say I do find this book very helpful and would recommend it.

Without a doubt you will score 7 -15 points higher with the book. I used this book for the local police level and without it, just going in blind, would have missed many of the questions. A police exam can be simple but in the simplicity you can make a tone of foolish mistakes because you just don't understand how to read the question or what to be looking for. I scored an 88% and knew I made a few mistakes because I was close to running out of time.

Really great book. Everything you need under one cover

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