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I just spoke to a T/O at Rockaway Park today. He basically confirmed what another poster had posted earlier: there is HUGE turnover at the conductor position. They call up 2,000 or so a year but then only 450 want the job, and the rest are no longer interested or DQ'd for various reasons. The reason for the turnover, he told me, is that everybody wants to promote up from C/R. Turnovers for T/O are much fewer. It used to be that the Bus Operator and Conductor exam were combined. When you applied, you were applying for both. Today it is separate. If you're disciplined at a higher post, they bust you down to C/R. If you're already a C/R and you're disciplined, there's no lower post to go down to; they just dump you. Anyway, I look to be in pretty good shape if the turnover is that swift. Even if my list number is in the 2,000-3,000 range, I can expect to get called up in about two years, and the list is good for four. Looks like 6 wrong ain't so bad after all

The answer to your question is at this link: http://web.mta.info/nyct/hr/pdf/instruct_eeaf.pdf The Education and Experience sample test form is here: http://web.mta.info/nyct/hr/pdf/sample_EETP.pdf

This was already addressed earlier in this thread. As well as in the NOE. You need those qualifications on the DAY YOU APPLY. Of course, you could petition the MTA to postpone the Education and Experience Test until the day you are called from the list. But they probably won't want to do that because then they would have to sift through too many unqualified candidates at the last minute. I think people should write to the exams unit and ask for them to do what you suggest, to postpone the E&E test until the day one is called from the list.

Bear in mind those WERE the requirements from the last NOE. It is possible (though unlikely) that they could be changed in the new NOE. You could ask them to relax the requirements.

I see. Are those requirements always the same every time they test for T/O? I wonder if they would relax them a bit...?

can the part-time work study be pro-rated?

Are they strict on that employment/educational history? Say you have 76 credits, and four years of work-study, but only 1 year of which was paid.That would be about three years, two short of the five. So that would DQ me. But what if I accumulated 120 credits after the exam was given but before I got called up. Could that be acceptable? Or do you need the 120 credits the day you apply for the exam?

When does the list for 3600 expire? 2017? When would the new exam for trackworker be held, also 2017?

Are there any residency credits for this exam?

The application for this position begins December 9, 2016. http://web.mta.info/nyct/hr/appexam.htm It also says on the bottom of the page to look through their exam archives for previous Notices of Examination for that job. I couldn't find it there, but I found an old one from 2009 here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/downloads/pdf/noes/200808098000.pdf Question to anyone who can advise me: What EXACTLY do they ask you on the Education and Experience form? Does anyone have a blank sample they might be willing to share? I ask this because I found on another forum that applicants for T/O filled it out seemingly correctly and still got DQ'd: http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york-city/703253-took-mta-train-operator-exam-got-14.html Do you need pay stubs? What DO you need? Has anyone been through this before? Does college work sudy count? Also, what does it mean when they say part-time work experience will be "pro-rated"? What is that?

I was told by the lady in about a year or less and you will get a letter.

With only one wrong you'll be called right away. I spoke with a TO on the Rockaway Shuttle tonight and it took him 5 years to get called. If they keep hiring and keep that list open then 6 wrong might get me in, though it may be a few years from now. I just wish someone could post solid stats on how often thay call from the list and how long the wait is, etc.

This is news to me. I thought there was a new city policy where they couldn't ask you about convictions or arrests. As for patterns, is this an officially promulgated policy? Do you have a source for this information?

I just want to be sure I understood you correctly: they call 2000 people up a year and 1250 or so are passed over for whatever reason? In such a case, with a score like 92 I could be called in 2-3 years!

They actually said they are very LIKELY to find problems with the questions?

The lady at the protest session yesterday told me 6601 would be open for 4 years. At the rate you claim they process applicants, they would call up 8000 people then. But on the 8094 thread, I see people from that 2008 exam who were 5600(or something) only NOW being called up. You sure they gonna reach 5600 in 3-4 years?

Do you know this for a fact? That they will call up 2000 people per year?

How far do you think they'll reach?

If you didn't score at least 96, it is not good odds. Read this page: http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/topic/13097-conductor-exam-8094/page-9 I may have a chance though, read SubwayGuy's post here, #36: http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/topic/47706-conductor-exam-6601-open-competitive/page-4 About 3500-4000 get called. I wonder how many they will call. I wonder where I would land on the final list. I protested every wrong question, just in case. Maybe it would depend on how many questions got struck, and how many people failed the drug tests or whatever other requirements, or asked for deferments, or simply didn't want the job anymore.

No, it does not matter how many took the exam, what matters is how many they need. If they keep the list open for four years, minus any hiring freeze, how far down will they get before it expires? btw I do not meet the requirements for TO yet.

Well it doesn't matter now, I guess. I did some research. From the last conductor exam, 8094, which was held in 2008 people who scored 96.0 were in the top 2000. They didn't get hired until 2014! I am really pissed off at myself, I expected to get 100. Instead, I got a lousy 92.5. That is no good. Looking back at the questions I got wrong today, I can't believe I missed them. I really wanted this job. Even if they extended the list for as long as 8094 was, I would still need three questions thrown out to get in off this list. Smh.

No! That was a trick question! I thought the same thing you did at first. Then I looked closely and saw that the question asked which train in the schedule only had local service for that line AND NO OTHER SERVICE ON THAT LINE.

I was told by that lady the list from 6601 will be valid for 4 years. With all the new lines, extra service, etc., how long will it be until you are called with 6 wrong? Or will you be called at all?

No, I got fooled on that one too. They wanted to know which train operated ONLY local and nothing else late nights.

There's no real way to know, but if the list were kept open long enough, as 8094 was, you might get called in a few years.