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Oh ok, Thanx!! And congrats on passing the second signals test too!

....Whoa!....

@ErikNYC, I never got to the yard posting, but I don't recall anything of yard enhancement, is that new along with the second signals test?

Happy for you that you passed????????????, but I am also sorry that you lost 4 of your peers, I got nailed by the signals test too, so I KNOW how you feel AND how they feel. From my experience, they will probably have to report to 130 for about a week(paid) before they talk with someone and it becomes "official".

Congrats!!????

Congrats 2 ya!!

CONGRATS!! I know the feeling!????????????????

Yet another challenge, you guys will get rolling soon and I know y'all are making the best of it. However, I can only imagine your frustration.

Sorry to hear this happened to you. Try this email address certcustserv@dcas.nyc.gov, I ended up being replied to from that when I messaged DCAS about something. This is IF you don't have a number to call. Hope this helps.

FYI....when I was in schoolcar, just around the time we were learning station switching we were given little booklets showing the expected aspects of the interlocking home signals along every B division route(I ended up giving mine back with everything else after I got canned), maybe you guys will get them too! I was nervous as HELL and I passed on the first try....If I could do it, then YOU definitely could too brutha'!

....If I could get back into schoolcar, I'd put my WHOLE dang BODY in the books????????!! As I mentioned to another poster, NOBODY should want to experience what it's like to have it all end at 248, when the Superintendent calls you into his office(????????) to tell you that you're done...it SUX!! I maintained my outward composure after the bad news, but inwardly I was like????????????????????????????????????????????????...lol.

Woah.....I guess knowledge and experience is key, and CYA too! As one of the TSS's said at PS248..."Welcome to Transit!"

Really?...Wow. I failed the signals exam myself so I'm not trying to poke fun...but still wow.

I know how you feel.....I flamed out on the signals test. The good news is that, if you want, you can request that your list number be restored after a year.

AMEN brutha!! I didn't stay in schoolcar long enough to really know if TWO signals exams would matter. To me it's just an extra way to be sent to 130 Livingston if you fail the second one (which you probably shouldn't), but at the end of the day paying attention and using commom sense is what really keeps you out of trouble most times.

Hmm...well I had hoped that the new extra test might actually HELP. It all comes down to paying attention out there like you said.

Wow....I hadn't even thought of those!, I will apply as for them as soon as they come up. I also put in for Block Operator, that seems challenging too.

Pay CUT? LOL, well I guess I forgot that for some people it would be a cut in pay....but you're right....there is longevity and good pension with this, AND the ability to move up to TSS, Tower Operator, RCC, etc.

Boy do I know it!LOL!! But trust me, your journey to the cab(AND GREAT PAY) is actually starting now!, all the paperwork, visits to 180, heart bursting out of your chest EVERY time your phone rings is just part of it. When you get sworn in, and they give you your rulebook, you could actually start perusing the signals then to get sort of a head start.

Anytime future T/O!????????????????

Your letter and completed application that they sent you. I don't remember much else, but it should all be on the letter they send you. BTW, the drug test is good for only 30 days, and it's not uncommon to have to go back there to 180 a LEAST once more for another test, and yes you would have to bring back all the same items as before.

There you go bro', THAT'S what I'm talkin' about????

Nope, not just signals....leave NO stone unturned! It's just that you get TWO chances to pass on everything else, the 1st and 2nd yard practicals (cuts/adds, preparing a train for service), the midterm, final, and road practical all give you two chances as far as I know. However, the signals exam is the one that gets you terminated for ONE incorrect answer. Your TSS's will help you prepare, I had Richarson and Lovell...both EXCELLENT instructors!, It wasn't them, it was ME, I didn't get it done when I had the chance, and that happens to some of us. But for YOU, the advice would be to study them a minimum of 1hr a day, make index cards(paper AND app, I use StudyDroid), and of course classmates can quiz each other. The support system is there, and you can succeed where some of us didn't...You'll be alright, just go and get it!!

It's both last I knew.....the 100%-or-else written followed by a signals practical, where you and whoever else in your class that passed the written portion go with your TSS's to a train to do at least a call-on.....you take turns of course.

Yeah, I hear ya, but that's just the nature of the beast. We all accepted that risk ("you're mission, should you choose to accept it"LOL), and it REALLY hurts when you put in all that time and preparation only to blow it on a one-shot test, but you CAN request list reinstatement after a year. But as far as leaving a good, steady job for this, it ends up being worth it when you pass. And you WILL pass, THAT'S how you increase your chance of success, by SEEING yourself nailing that thang.