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1 hour ago, Jay0989 said:

Hey guys. I screwed up and accidentally didn’t leave space between 2 jobs when I was unemployed. What can I do?

Just write it in any space. They don't care where it is written just make sure you account for the dates. And reasons. If you want they have a guy there go over every paper with you to make sure things are right

9 hours ago, JoelPZ said:

What time did you arrive? I did the urine and paperwork...I’m assuming you’re waiting to do just urine and you’ll be finished 

730

9 hours ago, Sally08 said:

I thought that was only for the train operators?

No for everyone, they said you can't work for the city and owe money to the city. You had even transit employees there for promotion. They tried to hide the tickets. They found out made them go pay them too before continuing. 

30 minutes ago, Dgopes said:

Is it difficult?

Not really.

7 hours ago, Sally08 said:

Hey guys does anyone know If parking tickets disqualify you from the process?

It does if you don't pay them before you come. I had a ticket. They told me can't continue until paid. I had to run pay it then bring receipt back. If you can pay them all before you come. People lied said no. Then they found out. All those people had to leave and come back

2 hours ago, Riku said:

My list number 1,55x got my pre employment letter a few days ago, gotta report tomorrow Friday for the drug test. Anyone know how long you’ll be there?

Depends I it maybe all day maybe a few hrs. I am still waiting in lab. Make sure you bring all the paperwork they ask for. If any tickets pay now. 

14 hours ago, Jay0989 said:

 

I took the OPA I believe in October 

So did I at pre employment today now still here

1 minute ago, Dgopes said:

Do you receive a score for the opa? Or is it just pass/fail? I take it next Sunday? What should I expect? Thanks in advance for those who respond. 

Yes. Pass or fail. 

1 hour ago, Sally08 said:

Hey I just left pre employment and was told there are no classes scheduled after July as of yet...is there a number I can call to confirm this? 

I am still here waiting in lab. I was the only guy to admit I had a parking ticket pending. I also could not hear what the lady said. To many people talking

On 5/21/2018 at 11:39 AM, Bmpo7 said:

I'm 7xx and got mine last week to report tomorrow.

I am 1256 and I got mine on Monday to report Thursday the 24th 

On 5/20/2018 at 2:20 PM, Mr Marta said:

Call 180 Livingston street ‭(347) 643-8229‬

and/or ask for Ms.Vargas she is the person in charge of hiring the train conductors

I got my pre-employment letter on Monday and my list # was 1256. So you should het soon

I took the OPA oct 10. I just got my letter saying i passed the Opa. No score.  Just pass. 

19 hours ago, Nyctransitorhotels said:

Is anyone certain we are getting a letter that we passed or failed that?? 

 

Perhaps they only sent letters out to people who passed the opa. It would be asinine imo to send a you passed letter with your number on it. Followed by perhaps a letter from Opa that you didn't pass the opa  exam 😑

I understand some people who didnt take the opa get a number however people who took the opa, should get the list number with a you passed or no number with a you didnt pass. Those who took the opa would know why they didnt pass. 

The letter i got said. You passed the above referenced test.  Plus it did state. Final adjusted test score 97.5. I did take the OPA in Oct.  

1 minute ago, Dred said:

I'm in the low 700's. I guess none of this matters until we know more about the OPA. 

Yup

16 minutes ago, Schecter said:

What do you think the cut off would be I would assume probably before list number 3XXX? 

Who knows. With the addition of THE OPA, alot of people could wash out. 

3 minutes ago, Sank said:

I scored 97.5% my list # is 1170. I just got called in for station agent. I’ll do that in the mean time. 

Did you take the test for station agent? Or is it an offer? 

4 minutes ago, Rahmel said:

It means a lot. My list number is 9xx and I scored 97.5. Someone else scored the same as me and their list number is 4xx. The tie breaker is your social. 

I got 97.5 and my list # is 1276. 

Just now, Moody said:

I know someone who is on the sanitation list 64,***th lol. 

Haha. I was in the 27,000's. I can forget that.

1 minute ago, Crozay said:

Yeah but with the amount of people that took it this time. I scored way better but I’m even higher on the list. It’s crazy. Better luck next time. If you didn’t score a 95 or better then you may have little to no chance.

Hey people was out with drug test or back ground. Hey some people probably even moved and never updated info. They will never get in.

1 minute ago, Crozay said:

Scored in the upper 1/3 but still to high for me to ever think I’ll get called. Welp on to the next career lol

Hey you never know. On the list 8094 they were calling people at # 10,000.

1 hour ago, Moody said:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Civil-Service-List-Active-/vx8i-nprf/data

 

CONDUCTOR 6601.

I don't see the list published on thechiefleader website. But  if you type in the search box with your last name you can see yourself on the list. I just checked for a friend of mine. FEB 14 was when it was released to the nyc data website.  You can also see other exams that you are on, but only if the list is published. 

Thanks for this info. Atleast people will get a sense of where they stand.

11 minutes ago, Schecter said:

My list number is 1,461 is that bad 

No considering 37,000 took the test.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/-MTA-Conductors-Spill-10-Secrets-of-the-NYC-Subway-System-473969083.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand

This is hopefully our future boys!.

6 minutes ago, Bmpo7 said:

@Dred I did as good as you on the written exam, but also found the OPA very difficult (note: I am an English & Spanish speaker). But to scream lawsuit just because an agency wants people with the best speaking/understanding skills and great memory is kind of absurd. I am certain they don't care about your age, race, or gender. It would be like a bunch of people who only speak English suing a company because they prefer to hire bilingual people. 

I don't think if you are the right person for the job, you should want this job anyways. There are plenty of MTA/city jobs out there. I do hope you get a job with the city soon . Best of luck.

You are right! In the past they hired people who you could barely understand. Now they want people who could be understood.  Im pretty sure it has been from customer surveys.

1 hour 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? 

When i took the OPA in Oct. I was not worried about the memory part. It was hard but not to crazy. I worry about how i did on the second part. The answers needed to be so exact that i couldn't concentrate.