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2 hours ago, CTK246 said:

High 900s, got pre-employment letter today for April 13.

Ok got home and sure enough pre employment letter! Going in next friday too! #1030

45 minutes ago, CTK246 said:

High 900s, got pre-employment letter today for April 13.

Congrats 1030 here makes me very excited :-)

5 hours ago, Stru385 said:

Hey everyone, first time posting here, so i apologize if any of what I’m about to say has already been answered and I’m just repeating old questions, but any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Anyway, I scored 95.00 on the test and my list # is 33xx. I know that’s not the greatest # to have, but i also don’t think it’s too bad either from what I’ve been told by someone i know who used to work for the MTA. Also, I haven’t received any letter yet about taking the OPA. Should I be worried that I haven’t received a letter about taking that or does it seem about right that my list # wouldn’t have been called yet for that next step. I have skimmed through some of the posts here and see that people in the first few hundreds of the list are going into pre employment, so it’s good to see that things are moving. Is there any hope that my list # has a chance of ever being called? If so, does anyone have an idea or a guess of maybe when they would reach it? Like I said before any feedback would be helpful. Congratulations btw to anyone who has been called for pre employment and best of luck to everyone else waiting.

Going based on the last test you could be looking around 3 years, maybe a bit more depending if they meet their conductor needs. You won't receive a letter for the OPA until they are closer to the point that they will want you for pre-employment. 

Everyone is more then likely talking about the same class. There's probably only 1.

32 minutes ago, N1CKR said:

Thanks appreciate the feedback info.  The Work history info they require is a little overkill, I can't remember all of the dates as to when I started and left jobs. 

You can receive a statement of your employment history from Social Security by completing a Request for Social Security Earnings Information form. You will receive detailed information about your work history including employment dates, employer names and addresses, and earnings.

The Social Security Administration charges a fee for detailed information based on the length of time for which you would like to receive records

1 minute ago, Dred said:

Could you or someone send me a link about these 200 positions needed to be filled, thanks. 

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Bus-Operator-Conductor-Track-Worker-Certifications/pjqi-8psc

Got my OPA letter. I passed. No pre employment, will remain on eligible list. #103*

According to the list they have 200 positions to fill

Yeah just like the first was pretty much common sense

21 minutes ago, Schecter said:

I take the OPA April 10th how easy or difficult would it be for the guys who got the preemployment and from who ever else took the OPA

Prep your memory skills. I'm sure most can pick out the key things to remember. I personally take Fish Oil daily which helps brain performance. For part 2 don't over think your answer. They play an example for you. Try to keep it just like the example. Don't ramble to much. I haven't gotten a letter but have taken the OPA

If you look the cert expiration is 4/23/18 so I would think they would start moving before then. No?

The one thing about that video that stood out to me was shortage of Train Operators and Conductors,yes get to my number faster pls!

To help make the time seem to go by a little better I suggest you do some family events, take some vacations, and get any life objectives you've had outside of getting into the MTA out of the way. Cause if were in then I guarantee that those things will be scarce, maybe even nonexistent in some of our lives lol.

This is true, Harrow Sqwa is not a stop 

The OPA is half memory half something else, its hard to gauge cause we are the first to take it, could be looking for speech efficiency,  could be looking for accuracy, who knows

1 hour ago, Nyctransitorhotels said:

What did you score? I got same score as schecter 96.25 and have number 1923. 

97.5

2 minutes ago, Schecter said:

96.25 got in the 1000s sucks to be me

Depends where in the 1000's I got 1030 and am very hopeful of being called within the first year

6 minutes ago, Dj Hammers said:

Got a 98.75. My list number is 3xx.

 

From BVE to MTA!🙃

10 minutes ago, riello2u said:

List #in the 19k... Lol   I'm already a track worker...  

Promotion test anyone?

I got my letter in the mail to, confirms my 1030.00 lol gotta get in the .00 in case someone claims 1030.01 lol

It's still all speculation at this point guys.  Patience is key,much needed for the position were going for 🙄

My official number is 1030, I am very excited and do believe that if they continue going at the rate they were with 8094 my number can come up quick!

2 hours ago, Nyctransitorhotels said:

 Hope all of u have back up plans i only took this test and sanitation. 

I took the train operators test as well, if they tell me I didn't get past the OPA then I can change up my approach when I go in for the OPA for train operator!

6 hours ago, Dred said:

I would like to have some of your opinions  from people who took the OPA exam. We really need to have a serious discussion about our chances of passing this OPA exam.

Please also note that I am not trying to brag about my accomplishments, just trying to give you an understanding of where my background is help put into perspective how difficult I found this memory section to be.

I'm a native english speaker and also have an accounting degree and also a master degree, I have my CPA license, or certified public accountant certification which is a extremely difficult 4 part exam, and got 2 answers wrong on the first part of the conductor exam.  I don't consider myself to have bad memory either,   but I found the first memory part extremely difficult because they would give you so much information to remember and they would give you stuff to remember to try and trick you up.

To clarify better as an example, they would give you lots of facts and the facts were very close to each other that when it came time to answer the question you could usually narrow it down to 2 answers very easily but those two answers were so close you really had to take a guess. 

I found myself having to take an educated guess many times after narrowing it down to two questions.

To give an example of a hypothetical memory question that is made to try and trick you up, say I placed a book on the 7th row of a shelf, and this shelf in the 6th aisle of the 8th floor. There would be lots of other information in this question also you had to remember, not just these facts so there is no way you could continue thinking about these numbers in your short term memory.

Then you were asked a question a few minutes later asking "What row of the shelf did you place the book on the shelf". A) 8th B) 7th C)2nd D) 3rd shelf.

Now you kind probably easily remember that the book was placed high up on the shelf, so you can eliminate the 2nd and 3rd shelf easily.  However, you then narrow it down to two answers, was this the 7th or the 8th shelf. You remember hearing the word 8th, but you really can't remember was it the 7th shelf or the 8th shelf, or was it that the 7th aisle . You then have no choice but to take a guess because who the heck is going to remember exactly the location when so many other numbers were so close to trick you up and you had so many other facts and numbers to remember.

This is exactly why this test was so difficult, they really tricked you up and forced you to remember things that were extremely close.

That all being said I had to guess at many questions and am seriously worried that I failed this test, especially if they grade it with a 75 average.

What I would like to discuss from some of you is, do you think they are going to fail a lot of people? Personally I would be shocked if they graded this on a 75 Pass average as I would think so many people would fail including myself. 

Is it possible that they may not fail a lot of people and the only people who will fail will be non-english speakers who really couldn't remember anything well because of the language barrier and couldn't even narrow down the answers to 2 questions? This is what I'm hoping for. I found the first part of the exam was so language intensive that it seemed it was meant to weed out the non native speakers of English. 

I simply can not believe my memory can be so bad with all my accomplishments, unless of course being in your late 30's makes your memory crap compared to early 20's.

This makes me believe that they will have to score this on some kind of curve and not outright fail more than 50% of the candidates. Could you imagine if most of us failed here? Wouldn't there be lawsuits like with the FDNY for discrimination? We really should consider a lawsuit if most of us fail this OPA exam as I think it is outrageous what they expected you to remember.

 

The other topic I would like to discuss is how some people have posted on this thread that the OPA memory exam was easy. Personally, I usually have found at the university that the people who said an exam was easy did poorly on it. The reason for this is because they did not even realize they were getting tricked up big time. I just can't see how anyone could have that good of a memory unless they practiced memory tricks to learn how to remember things.  I would like to hear from some of you how people have said in this thread that the memory test was easy. Are these people just fooling themselves or is my memory just bad and I have to accept that fact?

 

Please, I don't want any fighting about what I wrote here, it always seems like anything I write leads to flaming. I really want a serious discussion about the difficulty of this OPA exam as I found it ridiculously difficult. Based on my test scores, my academic qualifications, having been able to pass the CPA exam which is considered very difficult exam, how I could find this OPA exam so difficult and am pretty sure I failed it. I also don't consider myself to have bad memory considering I always seem to remember things better than most people I know.

Please share your experience with this memory test, did anyone else find it extremely difficult and are also worried they could have failed? 

The thing about the OPA is it seems to be subjective (based on how you look at it)I personally feel like I didn't do to great.If I had to give any advice on my own I would say keep the answers short sweet and to the point

The hardest part will be waiting to see if we passed the OPA. With the test at least they gave us a date that we could check our answers and gauge how we did. Doesn't seem like the case for the OPA. Would stink if you find out you failed the OPA by also finding out your name isn't on the list!