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http://web.mta.info/nyct/hr/proposed_answerkey.htm

Its under "6601".  Find the appropriate answer key for your exam date and time session.  

4 wrong.  95%

When do they establish the list?  How many conductors have they typically hired on a annual basis from previous lists? 

I Just got finished taking the conductor 6601 exam. I went into it thinking it would be easy based on what almost all of you have said here about the exam. I found it to be actually quite challenging. I easily took the whole 3 hours, and could have easily used another 2 or 3 hours to check over my answers. I am at a loss on why I found it difficult while most of you found it easy. 

 

While there were some easy questions, there were also many challenging questions. Now do not get me wrong here, all the information was on there to answer the question correctly, you just had to really use your head, which I didn't expect on this exam. 

 

I found a large amount of the questions tricky, you had to be extremely careful with many of them. If English was not your first language then there is no way you are going to do well on this test. 

 

What I think is that many of you underestimated the questions, many of them were designed to slip you up if you were not careful. While they may have seemed easy to find an answer, you may have been tricked into choosing the wrong one. 

 

I panicked with time at certain points, and had to skip whole questions for later because my head was hurting and couldn't do the thinking required to do them. This to me is just crazy on an exam for a conductor. Because so many of you said it was easy, I was taking my time in the beginning when I should have been rushing through the easy ones to spend more time on the harder ones. 

 

To make everything even more surprising, I went back and checked some I marked before I ran out of time. I actually caught a mistake on one and couldn't believe I got tricked, I almost never change answers with my final review.

 

This was really a difficult test. I can not see how so many of you found it easy. 

 

What I have found from experience is that tests I have found difficult, I normally always have scored much higher than the people who said they were easy, and many times scored the highest grade in the class on those exams.

 

Your first thought is going to be, I'm probably just stupid and that would be totally OK. Please let me tell you my qualifications.

 

English first language

University degree in accounting with a 3.9 GPA in major.

Masters degree in taxation with a high GPA around 3.7, I actually forgot what it is.

 

I am a CPA, (certified public accountant), so yes I passed that very difficult exam, ask anyone who has taken it, harder than the exam to become a lawyer. 

 

For other city tests I have taken, I only took the last two FDNY city tests, scored 100 on them and scored a very low list number, easily got called for both of them. The 1st FDNY test I took I found that to be extremely easy, the 2nd most recent one was much harder. 

 

I consider myself a very good test taker, very careful and have scored the highest grade on many exams in my classes at the university.

 

I am an extremely careful test taker, I have lots of work experience in taxes where being careful is a priority.  

 

That being said I am sure I scored close to 100% on this test, but to say it was easy is totally an understatement. 

 

Please, is there anyone here who will admit that the test was also quite challenging? I honestly feel so stupid right now that I am the only one who found it challanging. 

Wow.  Were there any hard questions?

I took it on Saturday in FDR high school, in a classroom overlooking the athletic field as the school was playing soccer. Every so often they all screamed and we'd all groan with the occasional swearing.

What questions did you get wrong and what date and time did you take the exam?  Is anyone going to the protest session on the 25th of January?  Or are there multiple dates for the protest?