Stylus850

Does anyone else feel let down by this test? I spent sooo much time preparing, practicing headway & running time concepts.. memorizing addresses of POI's, bridges, landmarks, rules of the road.. etc. Countless hours, taking the prep class,studying the books.. and they didnt have a single question on any of that stuff.. Just situational, common sense scenarios that almost everyone could answer. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have found the test easy but, it seemed too easy to effectively weed out the masses that didn't prepare for it.. For all my efforts, I really expected a better test of my working knowledge of the subject matter.. I guess I'm just venting.. I understand that NYCTA feared having the 87% fail rate of the previous exam again and not having a decent pool of passing candidates to make it thru the next 4 years. I'd expect they'll be calling only those who scored 100% or very close to it, any time soon. I'm sure they'll be thousands who did..

Hi.....I wasn't let down, but I know what you mean. I was shocked how easy the test was. It was more reading comprehension and using common sense more than anything. I took exam 2613, that was a challenging exam, having questions about parks, traffic and highway signs, landmarks, etc. This had nothing like that. I think they intentionally made this exam easier because 34,000 people took the 2613 and only 3600 made the list, many failed the exam and BOSS. 

So yes I know what you mean I was shocked how easy the exam was. I know I got at least a 95 on this exam.