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40 minutes ago, RTOMan said:

Bingo never put all of ones eggs in one basket especially with anything transit related...

Yes, especially the fact that railroads have a moronic communication system, they ain’t easy to deal with 

You should’ve at least applied for NYCT conductor and station agent. Therefore you would have somewhere to go later on. You shouldn’t have rested your whole hands just on MNRR or LIRR.

10 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

thats.....irrelevant to what I just said

Yeah I know. =)

4 hours ago, Comrade96 said:

youll be retired by the time transit actually fully gets around to doing that

Anybody who becomes a conductor needs to be able to know how to do the job; if someone sucks at the job, they can fire that person.

2 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

thats pretty much how all of the OC conductor exams are, theyll almost never ask for work experience

they didnt ask for any the last exam either

I wonder where they’re going to place station agents or conductors once they computerize/AI stuff on the job. I hope we aren’t going to get layed off or anything.

5 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

Uhhhh, me, I got a 95 on the previous conductor OC

Plus theyre in the 11-12k range for the old test right now and most of those people fit into that range you just described

Scoring higher increases your chances of getting called/called earlier but the other metric they use is when you sent in the application for the test

They only asked for education credentials this time, nothing about work experience when I submitted it.

3 minutes ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

Not true, you do not have to score a 100 on the test although there are people who will. Average score is between a 80 and 95. To be fair if your in the top 8000 you have better chance of being called. 

Someone said don’t score below 92. 

Also, can you tell me the last time people who took the conductor test got called with scores of 80-95? 

11 minutes ago, Longislandguy7545 said:

I know I'm late to the party, but was this exam for LIRR conductor or MTA conductor as in the subways?

MTA conductor 

I think it’s easier to become a station agent than a conductor. It seems like conductor is the more popular job of the two and if you don’t score 100 on it, you can’t get the conductor position. 

54 minutes ago, Och0a16 said:

How does that work? I know there's a date noted when you can go and protest the question. Like do they go over every question asking if any objective the answer?

I would think so, but hopefully somebody here who has more experience than me on that can answer this. 

54 minutes ago, Och0a16 said:

Just took the test today. The only slight complain I have about the test is right after the time was up during the memorize portion of the test we had to wait about 5 minutes afterwards before we could start answering those questions. The test proctor took her time collecting the images we had to memorize and then wait until she was given the the queue to hand out the questions so we could start answering them. Wish we could just flip to the questions after the time was up and just put those images aside so the proctor could collect them while we started answering the questions. But besides that the test was very easy. A few questions seemed a bit tricky with either answer being right but i guess one answer was more correct that then other. Either way, can't wait for the proposed answer to see how I scored in the memorized portion of the test.

You can protest the questions with more than one right answers.

7 minutes ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

They have #2 pencils if you forget; as apparently some people didn’t read the whole letter. You can bring your phone but it must be turned off prior to entering the building. The test is not hard, comprehension mostly.

How would it feel like going in to take this test without taking practice test first?

12 minutes ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

I just finished up. If you have common sense you shouldn’t have no problem. This career is memorizing rules and what you was trained. 

How hard was the test?

On 4/1/2024 at 1:41 PM, Kamen Rider said:

Need to get out of the retail mindset because that is nowhere near what the job is like. 
 

the lines assignments are broken up into pre-set jobs. These jobs all have pre-assigned trips. Those are your trips to do and that’s what you’re going to do unless something has gone wrong.

@+Young+ who started it?

Just now, +Young+ said:

As per the guidelines of the Forums, if we can please stay "on-topic," it would be truly appreciated. If this conversation continues, regardless of where the word "retail" came from, disciplinary action will be coming, respectively.

Thank you.

But why me though and not other people too? I NEVER instigated that word from the beginning. Maybe you might wanna take a look page back, Young.

9 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

Because the questions you asked are how retailer jobs tend to operate…

Ok, let’s be fair… how many retail jobs have you had? You need enough experience to know what you’re talking about.

55 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

You asked about “completing assignments” and “getting done what can be got done”…

 

Let’s call it a “business” mindset then. Ether way, we don’t operate anywhere near that in transit.

No need for you to bring up anything about retail. I don’t know where that came from.

40 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

Need to get out of the retail mindset because that is nowhere near what the job is like. 
 

the lines assignments are broken up into pre-set jobs. These jobs all have pre-assigned trips. Those are your trips to do and that’s what you’re going to do unless something has gone wrong.

When did I say it was like retail?

Second, retail jobs don’t work like that.

35 minutes ago, +Young+ said:

You're welcome. Good luck!!

When you’re working as a conductor, will management time you how long it takes you to finish an assignment? Or just finish whatever you can?

10 hours ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

They are very picky on who they pick. I won’t elaborate publicly but if you want to pm me I will gladly tell you. 

You’ve been working with them for so long now and they still don’t bother to treat you right?

5 hours ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

I’m well established in Nj Transit, making top pay and I’m having second thoughts but my ultimate goal is to make it to train operator. Sometimes you have to make a step back in life to go forwards 

You can apply for train operator or locomotive engineer at NJT can’t you?

3 minutes ago, drenyce311 said:

You have an average accumulated all the way from the open house to getting into the program. They don’t tell you how you scored in the cognitive. I know I passed the synonyms with 42/42 because they had that in front of them. I could see my score on top of the paper. The other parts i don’t know how I scored. I guess pretty high since I made it into the program.  That’s why you have to sell yourself in the interview. As for who they pick to move forward. I’m not sure. I passed, they said “IF” selected I would get a email with the next few weeks. I got the email the next day inviting me to the signals and definition. 

So you can score low and still get into the program as long as your interview is fine?

3 minutes ago, drenyce311 said:

 All depends how you answered on the preliminary interview and how you scored on the cognitive. The highest scores will get called first for signals and definition. To move forward to the next process is at their discretion. Not everyone moves to the next stage. 

Scores don’t make sense because they already called out low scorers before that

@drenyce311 @NYYankee @danielhg121

tagged you guys, and wanted to know if everybody who makes it to interview at the end at open house gets invited for signals and definitions or they don’t pick everyone who passed for signals and definitions ? Why do they not call out names if they weren’t going to choose everyone?

Is there going to be a difference between people who take it on April 21st and people who take it on April 28th? I’m taking mine on 28th so I’m curious.