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The speaker introduces the study plan, emphasizing gradually building attention span and focus over time. He explains why students should train for long study sessions and begin with shorter, disciplined practice blocks.
Good morning.Good morning.Thanks George for the boxing.So 9 months from now your plan is to sit still at whatever location I tell you I can tell and focus and make clear decisions for 6 straight hours without having done that before.You're ready to run.It's not going to work.You have to physically train for that day.9 months from now.9 months is a long time.6 hours of staying focused.I tell you what.1 hour.When I say focus, here's what happens to me.I sit down.Okay, here's I have a lot of screen or a book in front of me.I'm going to study.It's 3:00 now.I'm here for 4.And I go at it and about 10 minutes go by and something jars a memory from last time.It's Carl what he said.My mind starts to wander.Stop.
When that happens, write down the time it is.Now you're aware of the length of your attention span.Once you're aware of it, you can begin to expand it.This is not easy.Focus for 1 hour.Don't let your mind wander off the pace for 1 solid hour.Work on that right now.Start today.This is week 1.We're going every other week, right?So by the time we come back to class next week, you should be doing exactly 1 hour solid.Then you build on that.Try to do 1 hour and 1 and 1/2.I'll tell you who's going to get on this list to get made.The people who work their way up to 4 hours without letting their mind wander three times a week by January.You're getting on the list.It's that simple.You focus.Don't let your mind wander.Build it slowly.
It's just like look, I jog twice a week.My max is 2 21.Dude, I can do that for a year.There's no way I'm running a marathon on Sunday, 26 miles.Agree?2 miles, that's great.I'm in good shape, but I'm not running 26 miles.So, you got to start now.Hour by 2 weeks from now, hour and a half.By January, plenty of time, but you can't skip a week.January, 4 hours, three times a week, you're getting on the list.That's exactly how this works.So, what are you going to do during that hour?Let's talk about that.How are you going to do it?Not just what you're going to do.So, motivation look, you're here.I don't have to talk about it.You already here, you're motivated.We know that.Okay, so you get up to 4 hours, you're going to do real good.
I'm going to make a bold statement here right now.Don't study the patrol guide.Don't study the patrol guide.Read patrol guide maybe once.I wouldn't even read it twice.I would read it once just to understand the structure of the page, the function of the text that they put in there, become familiar with their writing.Read it once, maybe twice.Like today it's 202.You got the patrol guide on your phone, right?Everyone has it on their phone.You're not going to be carrying around the patrol guide.Read 202 once, leave it to the side, then study our lesson plan.
Here's what it comes down to.The patrol guide is like the New York State Penal Law.Don't study the New York State Penal Law.It's written by lawyers for judges to use in the courtroom.We turned it into a student's textbook.That's what the legal guide we got last week is about, okay?In a similar fashion, we took the patrol guide, turned it into a student's textbook.I wrote the patrol guide when I was on the job.Every time I published a procedure, I had to get it signed off by my Deputy Commissioner of Labor Relations, the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Bureau, Chief of Personnel, all the way down the line.This thing is written for a very different purpose.It's written for the City Council, for the for the courts.It's not written for us.Don't study it.We turned it into a textbook.
So, let's talk about the key lessons.We're going to read the patrol guide itself just to become familiar with it.Well, let's do that together.Turn to page 12 of today's book.Just to get a working knowledge of what I'm talking about.On page 12, we've got an active patrol guide procedure here, right?216.04.You see, this When I say the active angle margin, margin means the side of the page, right?So, the top says "Purpose procedure."The active angle margin is written for members of service, that's us.See the first seven steps?All bang bang bang bang, right?Then there is another Anytime that I see step eight, who's who's responsibility is that?They don't reprint the act, but you have to understand step eight belongs to the last actor mentioned, which is UMO West.So, step eight belongs to UMO West.You continue down the page.
Who's responsible for step nine?Not the UMO West.Communication section.Here's a tactic they've got.Test after test is going to happen It's going to happen five times minimum on your test.I'm going to guarantee that to you.Look, I've been at this a long time.I came on the job in '84.I was hired in '88, lieutenant in '86, made captain in '89.I have a physical copy of the test I took in '88.I have a physical copy of the test George Appollo took in 1993.They used to release them.There's a place in New York City on Chambers Street, called the New York City Municipal Reference Library.Reference library means you can go in and research things, you just can't take them out, but you can photocopy them.We used to take the test, go down to the reference library.They stopped We would read the test and make copies of them.
For some reason, starting in '86, they stopped releasing them.Now it's a mystery.I'll tell you what, I wrote an article to the chief.Not that they'll reach the chief anymore, right?The Civil Service is paper.No.I wrote an article to the chief condemning that practice.Why don't they release it?What's the mystery?Someone from the BAP responded to that article.They actually called me and told me something I was surprised he told me.He said, "Well, you know they could sue about it, right?"We have questions that survive the litigation.We want to keep them and reuse them.I'm like, "No, that's what they're telling me that."There's a bank of questions that they use.I'm going to tell you exactly what's in that bank.That's what these muscle plays are all about.So, you look at this page.The question says to you, which is not the proper statement of duty of the EMT today of the first set of steps to make an ABC.
And leaves to be D.Notify dispatch of the area of the car seat of the problem for the EMS to follow location of the lab.And that is a proper statement.It's a true statement.It's on this page as you study it, yet it's wrong.There lies the right answer.Don't get caught up in the logistics.It's wrong.Well, how can it be wrong if it's a true statement?This is the four true statements tactic active version.There is a procedural version.I'll explain that in a minute, but just real quick.They'll give you which of the following is not the proper statement of duty of the EMT today of the first set of steps to make an ABC.They'll give you three proper ones and then they'll take a really proper statement that you've studied a thousand times from another procedure and put it in here.
And it is a true statement, but it's wrong for this procedure.The body of the question or the stem of the question is so important.Pay close attention.They're going to say, "You are Sergeant so-and-so working in the whatever precinct."And then they're going to tell you what type of job you are.Now you know what procedure you're in.Okay, that's in my binder 2604.I remember this one.Notify dispatch of the EMS cut out.It's not me, that's them.You'll remember this about it, too.You may study, study, study.And at some point you're going to say, "Oh, holy There's no way I'm going to retain all of this by February."Relax.You don't have to.Here's what's going to happen.If you study properly along with our course way you're supposed to study it, then you review during the cram.Then you test.
They ask the question, start reading through it, going to jump right off the page.It will jump right off the page.You don't have to carry the information around with you.So, don't panic over that.So, let me just finish something else.Go to page two of this procedure.
This section explains how to use the patrol guide as a textbook rather than reading it passively. The speaker walks through page structure, actor responsibilities, and the idea of studying for exam tactics instead of memorization alone.
The very next page, page 13 in our book.
So, you got patrol supervisor duties.Patrol supervisor duties are the ones that's going to be on the exam.You know the ones that's going to be on the exam, right?What if they said on the day of the test super question, not a hard question, but it could be very difficult.It's granted.Which of the following is a properly worded duty of the UMO West of the city of New York in five?Choice A, ensure assigned sector responsibility.Sounds a little closer to the duty.Obviously not the answer, right?Notify communication section of the highway EMS department.Okay, there's an answer.And then the next choice, notify the desk officer.Just a notify the detective squad.Wrong answer.It's right.It's on this page, but it's going to be a wrong answer.So, if they You know, they wouldn't ask I say good on that.
Which of the following is not the proper statement of duty of the UMO West?Now, you're looking for three good, one bad.Which of the following is the proper statement of duty of the UMO West?Now, you're looking for one good, three bad.These three bad will be perfectly worded true statements from this procedure.They just belong to a different actor in the procedure.And you're studying them all at once.They're all on the same page.They're all going to sound right on the day of the test.You have to be able to discern Wait, no, that is true, but it's not mine.I'm the UMO West.Or, the question says, I'm the sergeant.Or, the question says, I'm the desk officer.So, you have to as you study recognize the actor.Whose duty it is, is something you can do, too.In your mind's eye, as you study patrol supervisor duties, think of your squad sergeant.
When you're out there running around, who's your who's your sergeant?Picture that person in your mind's eye when you're reading those duties.Who's on the desk in your command?Picture them in your mind's eye when you're reading the desk duties.And try and keep that visual in your mind as you go through it.So the day of the test, they give you four statements.Which one is the correct answer?Meaning is it right or is it wrong?You back to the Bible of questions and say I am the cop on the scene.Okay, I'm going to be your liaison.I'm the patrol supervisor, I'm going to be your liaison.What did that say?Whatever.Question says I'm the desk officer, those are the rules I'm going to go with.So it's very specific.That's why we structured these lesson plans to go right in line with how to study this problem.
Okay.So about the material before we leave this stage, that's the four true statements.Active version, I'm going to talk about the procedure version in a minute.The book itself is full of mistakes.I like I said, I welcome the patrol right out of the CO that you would have published it.And we have run it through all kinds of checks and balances.It's rife with mistakes.I'm not giving them a hard time.Everybody makes mistakes.I can show you many a times today I'll I'll pick out three typos every day of the week.I make mistakes.Listen, if you find a mistake in my book, email me and we'll put it up on your COP system.George Mason, we have a video.We have questions, acronyms.There's a lot of resources on it.Also, these books in PDF are on it.So if you find a mistake, I fix it.
It's on COP's.Download the COP's version, it's perfect.Because everybody makes mistakes.Especially in fact, there's two in the book you're looking at.There's one in 202 that George will get to.And and what I I'll put a little box in the corner of the margin and say, "Look, George made a mistake here.It said 207 rates and it was 207."Whatever it is.
It's rife with mistakes, but that's why we work around them.We study around them and we don't worry about them.So.Here's a funny thing.Someone Someone I know was just calling George Mason before the class.Someone emailed me a question.I read it and I went, "Man, I was about to say to myself, that's a stupid question."If you're a law enforcement guy, forgive me if you're in the wrong.The guy goes, "Oh, so I'm reading the academy, we don't have to wear body camera unless we're a youth officer?"I thought, "Man, everybody wears one.You know that."Check it out.I know you don't law this is.In 212-143, by the rule of channel procedure, it kind of assumed that everyone wears it.They don't come right out and say it.Like if you look at something, it says it says below a specific rank, assigned to a specific type duty, must carry a body camera.
They didn't do that in body worn camera.They just kind of assumed it.Now we get to today's version, today's chapter 202-201-4.You saw 202-201-4 operator, RPO operator.I was being recorded down the line.No mention of the camera.They don't mention the camera until they get to 202-208.And the only other place that they mandate you wear is 202-238 for QWL for fire alarm systems.Oversight on that part, whose mistake, but whatever.We know you got to wear it.But it's just pointing out how fallible the theory can be.We understand what happened here, and we'll study our way around it.Okay.So, go back to that cover page with me.I just want to look at the structure of the force well with the patrol guy.We're now back to the cover page, part of page one, the key method.Read these season once, only once, because of the latest structure of the force.
We just did that together.Then study the key lesson plans.They are your textbook.Okay.
Below that, today's lesson.You saw what an anomaly the question was.What you don't understand is they did not write these next three questions.E-cash welcome.You know who E-cash is, right?The body worn camera video streaming services.That also appears in your exam.These questions appeared on past exams, exactly as they appear on the next page.Let's take a look at what we're going to do now is the tactics that they employ in presenting you with questions.Let me ask you this.Should you be possessed of the knowledge necessary to answer the question correctly and still get it wrong?Oh, let me tell you, yes, the answer is yes.How many times?There's people out there you probably joke in front of this walking patrol guys.And they make the list.You're shocked.You can have all the knowledge necessary and still get crushed and get questions wrong.
This is how Let me ask you this a basic thing and everybody should have known two weeks into the academy should have known this.Do you make an 85 for a prisoner?No.If you were working and someone said, "Oh, you got to make an 85 for a prisoner."You'd look at them like, "No, we're not No, no one would do that for a prisoner.We don't do that."So, how would they test that basic piece of knowledge?Guess what?They They did it three times in the last 20 years and most people got it wrong.Oh, it happens all the time.If you read your patrol guide, you probably won't pass the test.You have got to study.There's a big difference between reading something and studying it with their tactics in mind.You know, always ask yourself as you study, "Why am I doing this?
What is the point of this?I'm going to try and pass an exam.What might they do with this sentence that I'm reading right now?"If it says 3 hours, the test question says 5.Okay, then you remember that.And keep in the back of your mind your purpose.I'm trying to pass an exam.They're going to manipulate this information.Let me remember it exactly as it's written here.Keep it in mind what your purpose is.So, truth for knowledge, yes.We want to apply that knowledge in the face of their tactics.Again, I've been at this for 40 years.I know all their tactics.And they have all the applied to this lesson.I'm going to show you through this through exactly what to expect on the day of the test based on the information you're studying.
The speaker demonstrates common exam tricks, including four-true-statements questions, chain-of-command traps, and subtle wording changes. He also shows how small differences in time frames or missing details can turn a true statement into a wrong answer.
So,Yeah, don't worry about retaining the information.We talked about that.Let's look at the actual question number one.You'll really be on page one, 42 219 patrol supervisor.Sergeant in the 42, should not issue this bottle for weeks.So, you're looking for the right one, three of them would be wrong.Notice how I switched one of the locations in the middle, we take it and leave it.Patrol commander or the desk, sounds good.You're responsible for police operations, funny command, sounds right.Report violations of duty to the ICO, sounds good.Visit your own website at the hospital as much as possible frequently at any regular interval.Indicate the side of that wall.They all sound great.You know what I mean?Four true statements.Almost, they are great.But, let's say you want to turn the page to look at the answers.Page two.
Choice A is the great answer.But, that's not the point here.We're going to examine their tactics so that we can apply them as we move forward.Let's look at B, the middle of the page, it's a true statement.This is the procedural version.That is an absolute true statement, but that's the duty of the desk officer for 2018.They sent the person to 2019.They came right out and said, "We're asking for the duties of 2019."And then they take the duties of 2018 that you probably studied 5 minutes ago and presented to you and it's going to look right.This is the procedural version of four true statements.Okay.So, I've talked about what's in your mind's eye in the back of your mind, the duty of the control supervisor, and if you think of your desk officer in your mind's eye as you study the duties.
Okay, let's go to the next page then.See is an example of breaking the chain of command.Who if if your precinct was a high school, who's the dean of discipline?The ICO, right?So, who would be natural to report violations of duty to?
The patrol guy says ICO, commanding officer.That's why that choice was wrong.The choice says report violations of duty to the ICO, the patrol guy says report violations of duty to the CO.That's what we call breaking the chain of command.This is in fact much like four true statements that will appear on your exam probably times, maybe more.So, what we've done every time a cop goes to Captain Barratt, we pull out, we tell him break the chain of command, there it is again, on the website, George Lane put in many hours on it, pulling alist of when the chain of command is broken.They're going to test it.Think how simple it is for them to pull out CO from the platoon commander, desk officer, squad size, whatever they want.And it's And the statement is right, the wording is correct right down to the end of the last doctor.
Let's go to our breaking the chain of command again.As we said in the middle of the page on the entire acronym, let's talk about the ones that happened here in today's chapter 12-2, bottom of page 12-2 17, program and operating step six, the important necessary task ofCO.You imagine the guy driving the wagon walking into the command he lost sight of the fire.Get out of my office.Go tell the other Get out of my office.On the day of the test, the answer is commanding officer.12-2 19, patrol supervisor, report that list to CO, we just did that.Save the season, patrol supervisor step 20, submit to the commanding officer in writing recommendations for special assignment.It's going to say special ops, lieutenant, it's going to say anything other than commanding officer, the last person you'd actually approach in real life.That's another thing.
Things that
are true in your day-to-day that are contrary to what's written in the book, they're going to fact that.It used to be like I know you sign in the side, I was a key officer, you you put your ID card reader in, right?It used to be that you had a sign the return roll call, the end of the tour, so the sergeant would sign the roll call, there was no sign in, and then sergeant you had to sign the returnroll call, verify it.And then the desk officer signs out in the command log.And on the day of the test, they had the desk officer sign the return roll call, it was wrong.But, you're a sergeant, everybody signs in roll call, so that actually you can take every day was wrong on the day of the test.So, watch out for that.
They'll take your reality, open it up against the book, and ask the question at the middle.Don't fall for it, okay?So, the last one is 202-1 complaint with the posting of the meeting points as directed by the patrol supervisor, your smart sergeant, the lieutenant commander.All wrong answers, C always the answer.So, that's pretty much the same for me.Let's turn the page.Page four, choice D, patrol supervisor does visit you almost at the time of the hospital special post, but the time frame is incorrect.The bottom of the page is incorrect.Choice D said frequently and at irregular intervals, but the correct time frame is once a tour.We went to the page, remember when we looked at 216-4 page one, they said you almost and it was Saturday and stuff, write it down.And I said to you, watch out.They're going to take three of them, make them three choices, and then drop down to the bottom, get a true statement, and make it a bad choice, right?
But that was only one of the pages.Here, and this has happened two or three times on just about every test, and I'm going to point it out while I explain to you every word it happens.You've got cops on the foot and on the pay, those are basics.Then you've got people on special posts or hospital posts, those are different.Each of those categories in the patrol guide has got a different time frame.Foot and arm pay once a day.You're not talking about 24-hour duty blocks.Now you know, maybe hopefully you saw the last thing he said because he signed my book already, right?Once a tour.Foot and arm pay, sergeant sign the books once a tour.Hospital special posts, different time frame, frequently and at irregular hours.One test, they took off the IR, it said frequently and regular hours.Bam, they got half the people taking the test, they know the procedure, they know the information's correct, and two freaking letters made it wrong.
This says irregular hours instead of regular hours, and if you miss that, you got it wrong.So, what I'm getting at is 260.4 page one at 7:00 p.m.Good.The band was down here.Look at this.See my eyeballs like my little eyeballs on the page?Look at the following hours.This is step 12 of 4/20/18.Foot and arm P, frequently irregular hours, and just a few lines beneath it, hospital special post, at least one since 2:00.They flipped the two time frames, put them on the two different groups of cops, and they got us.That was one tactic.Another test that says frequently, it says she says irregular, they took off the I R and made it wrong.What Don't If you read the patrol guide, you'll probably fail the test.Don't read it, study it.Big difference.So, I'm going to I'm going to show you what I mean by the difference.
Before we go out of here, I've got to give you this one last piece.If this is a little overwhelming, if you know what, just by your basic experience on the job, pulling tours, putting in a few hours here and there, you'll get 50 questions, guaranteed.You you could get 50 questions without hardly studying.They're going to be pretty basic.It's the next 50 that we're really going to work on.And in that final group of 50, it's the last 20 that we're really going to work on.Look, you don't want to just get on the list here.You want to get up close to the top of the list so that you actually get made.Remember, what is my purpose?Why am I studying this?Don't get overwhelmed like "Oh, how am I going to remember regular irregular?"I'll tell you how.You're going to have George standing up here week after week after week shouting at you, "Watch out for those two ladies!"
This is how this works.Now, okay, let's just go right through kind of basically what I'm saying.If If like I said, if you if you read the patrol guide, then you just read the task.You're probably not going to pass it.Look at this text in in the box at the top of page five.It asks a question.Go ahead and answer that question in your minds eye.You don't have to raise your hands.Just go ahead and do it yourself.It only takes a couple seconds.I can you find the mistake?One, two, three, four, five.Funny looking font on the numbers.I was kind of Let me just say something.I went to Harvard, right?I got this wrong, okay?So, don't feel bad if you don't get this.Can you find the mistake over there?I bring pre-pre-determined ideas with me to the test.
Didn't you say think what you find new?Only what you find new.The mistake in that box is I found the number.It says, "Can you find the"?What's the very next character on page?The.It says the twice.Can you find the the mistake?I never noticed it.Because I looked at it.Because I read it.I didn't focus on it like I'm preparing for a test.I I went right to the numbers cuz they're a different font and I'm assuming they are.
I'm assuming that I brought all that myself.If you look closely, you pick it right off the page.Isn't that how it would be when you get to that hour you do this week and turn it to an hour ahead next week?This is what you do.This is what all lesson plans are built to do.So, beneath that finish line, if you've done this before, bear with me.I love It's one of my favorite exercises.
You want a set of instructions.Please follow the instructions and take that exercise.Shouldn't take you more than a couple seconds.
All right, step one.Follow the instructions.It says read it.Go ahead and read it.These files are the result of years of difficult study and experience in this uh many years.Now, go to step two.Go ahead and follow the instructions.
Look over here now.
Okay.Well, I got it right.No more stool.Finish files and results of scientific study of grammar.Again, how many letters?I say three.Now, on the day of the test, you don't want to trust yourself.If you did put in the hours, you came to class, and you worked the way up to 4 hours focus three times a week, and you did the work, do me a favor.These shots are don't look at somebody else's page.Even if you can see it from your seat, don't even look.Just don't look.Trust yourself.Do the work, and trust yourself.You go to the bathroom, and there's two people in there talking.Who's got it?I say three.I say four.You're like, I say five.You're like, "Oh, holy shit."Don't listen to them.Trust yourself.I got it wrong when I said three.There are not three.
There's There's more.You want to know how many there are?Six.The letter R appears in it six times.Finished files, scientific all all all.The word all appears three times.See, you read very well.The word all is not an information-giving word.It always focuses the tone of it.It doesn't make it from the page from your eyes to your brain because it's not helpful.It's a waste of time, and you're reading You just don't You read You read a l l l.I don't pay attention to it.If you read your own test, you may very well fail.We look at it.It's like don't study the code guide.Study all lessons with tools.We look at things, and we point them out to you every step of the way.So, six S's.Now, last thing on this page before we leave that page.
Uh if I look at something on a page, and I study it, and I really go, "Aha, I see it."The letters I R are missing.That's wrong.It says regular should be irregular.That's very good.To notice something that is presented to you that's incorrect.Next level is to notice that something's missing.That is not something there to cue it up to you.You look at it and go, "Incomplete.They're missing half that sentence."To notice what's not there.That's where you want to get to.Now, we'll take you there.We'll get there together.You're going to start looking at the question and go, "No, no, no, no, that's only half the game I get.Next."To notice things wrong, one thing.To notice things that are not present that makes it wrong, that's the next level.Now, we're going to get there.Okay.
This chapter focuses on spotting wrong answers, missing words, and the difference between reading and studying. The speaker introduces tripwire questions, warning that the exam is designed to unsettle test-takers and create clusters of mistakes.
Question page one here.Question three, you're going to have to do it in the wrong and be the wrong one if you try to write it down in the back of So, question three, according to me, I'm on page one, right?According to the definition of an indication 26201A, which of the following is not an aid?So, not.That means three of them all.Law's adult person injured in the the paying of adult criminal Oh, do you know what I just said?What did I just say?I'll say it again.Law's adult person injured in the adult criminal EDBA adult criminal And did you want to correct me on that?EDBA, yeah.Did you make an ID card for prisoner?Emotionally and mentally disturbed, mentally The last word because you were going to repeat and you assumed it said person.It doesn't.It says prisoner, you made an ID card.
There it is.Three times in the last 20 years they did that.Because you're looking, you're not studying.Finish fives.Can you find the wrong mistake?Emotionally disturbed prisoner.Now, they know what goes on in your mind and they use it against you.Well, we know too.I know what goes on in their minds that I'm going to show it to you.Now, it's up to you to put the time in.Hour a day now, hour and a half next week, get it to four hours by January.We're going to show you all the tricks in the trade.You do the work, you're going to ace this test.Okay.Let's go from I love the words in circles.It shows such a great lesson.Let's go to page 10.
Okay, page 10 is really just the graphic illustration of what I just explained to you.You have the three choices of all of those from 80 cases.The emotionally disturbed prisoner is not.Okay, turn the page from there, page 11.Remember the patrol administrative guides and campaign nothing to serve this is the purpose.They are not textbooks.They were not created for students preparing for the exam.I will repeat myself telling you go study the patrol guide, read it once, become familiar with the structure and function of everything, and then come here and study with us.Read that paragraph in the middle of page with the different colored block.Go ahead, take a second and read that.
Fascinating you can read that.Isn't it?
I don't even mind when the research came to the university.It doesn't matter at all what the letters in the word are.The only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place, the rest of it a total mess, and you can still read it without a problem.Wow, that is fascinating and you can just read that.Your mind has been trained to some of the way your whole life.We're going to untrain them so that we can find regular versus irregular.This is worth 15 to 20 points alone.Just understanding this, how your mind works, and how you're going to retrain it now.That's 15 points minimum.Okay.So, next up is we're we're we're we're not going to do this together.It's an open book question they used to say they do in the past.They can still do it on the computer if they want.
They can just say the first and follow the control guide and see if you have any other questions they'll give you the procedure.They have to have it mastered and recreated here.You do that on your own when you have time.Turn with me now to page 18.This is the last time that I want to go over with you in this protocol.I call it and versus or.This shows up at least once a test, probably more.We'll see.Sample question that follows the 20 or 3010 protocol later guide on.When a uniformed officer informs the department that they are claiming all of the following are true except, so you got three good, one bad, right?Three good, one bad.Your uniformed officer notifies the district surgeon that they are claiming all of the following are true except, and you got three good, one bad, right?
Three good, one bad.Your uniformed officer notifies the district surgeon that they are claiming all of the following are true except, and you got three good, one bad, right?Three good, one bad.Your uniformed officer notifies the district surgeon that they are claiming all of the following are true except, and you got three Your uniformed officer makes the following notification to the district surgeon including indicating privacy due date via departmentemail and department mail.First thing you want to notice is that I promise this will happen uh about three times out of out of every test.Two of these choices are almost identical.When that happens, one of them is the answer.Almost always it's the type of answer that I've observed.When you get two choices, this case is B and D.They are word for word for word except one word, the exact same.
When you see that, focus because one of them is the answer.So looking at B and D, Your uniformed officer makes the following notification to the district surgeon including indicating privacy due date via department email or department mail.
What is D saying?Exact same thing except it says department email and department mail.One says or, one says and.This is how you get tested.Finish line, power of attorney, irregular regular, and verse I didn't even write this question.D cast put this on the sergeant's test.They're going to do it again and again and again.Maybe not at 3:30 10, but anywhere that appears.So, what did George do?We did the research.We got every single place in the book.Look, says and here, says the word here.Now, they used to say fax or mail.Fax has become email.Again, the book's not perfect.Everyone makes mistakes.We do it sometimes.Uh it still does say fax or mail in certain procedures.It mostly says email or mail or email and mail.So, in this case choice B and D are the exact same.
Answer is B.B says email or mail.Why is B the answer?Because it's wrong.Understand, it's wrong.That makes it the damn test.Be very careful.You'll go down the rabbit hole of analyzing the choices.I got it.That's the wrong one.That's the right one.Stop.Don't go to the answer key with the right one.Cuz if there is before the wrong one, you did all that work, applied all that knowledge, and got it wrong.Be clear in your mind.Be calm.Take your time.One is wrong, one is right.Which is the correct answer though?And about the mindset, let me just say this to you.This is something that George teaches for the test scores right now as well every week.And this happens on the captain's exam almost every time.With you, it'll happen, but maybe not as specific as what I call tripwire.
You take a captain's exam.Amongst the first five questions, it's usually question three.They're going to ask a question that is virtually impossible to answer.It's a question that you read and you go, "Are you freaking kidding me?"Some people snap their pencils and walk out of the room.It's not possible to answer.It's the stupidest I've ever heard.That is called a tripwire question.You ever notice this after the test?Everyone's running around the room asking, "How many did you get wrong?17?14?12?12?Oh my this guy."Right?You've never seen all 17 all by themselves.You see groupings on the answer key.Three wrong in a row here, four wrong in a row here.You think exactly what that happens?They set the tripwire, it blows your mind, you get upset, you get emotional, you get pissed.And in the next three or four questions, and becomes all, it becomes but, and irregular becomes regular.
That's where they put it, right behind a tripwire.So, when you get to the test and you ask the question, you go, "What?How do you freaking write?"Remember I might have said, "Oh yeah, this is the tripwire.Step over it."Look very closely at the next five questions.We'll come back to that when we get a chance.Keep a steady, even mind.What's right, what's wrong, doesn't make it the correct answer.Remember that.And take your time.Don't let them fluster you.That alone could be worth That could be the whole test.Let me tell you something.
The speaker closes with broader advice about discipline, mindset, and what the department expects from future sergeants. He briefly revisits fax-versus-mail wording, then ends by encouraging continued study and a short break before the next chapter.
I said I worked at the fire department.I worked at the old math.I was on the commissioner's staff.I'm a very cynical guy, but I love-hate relationship with the fire department.Who sets the charges in the fire department?I hate the department, I love the department.I'm an expert witness now.I travel around the country.The NYPD still stands today.As the greatest organization in this country.I've worked with all the departments all around this The more I see, the more I realize we got that right.We're very efficient, we're very offensive.We've got a lot of highly educated people administering this department.I hate it, but at the same time I respect it.My point being What was my point?
I didn't have my pages.So, the point being and versus law, facts and mail.This department does get it right.Don't let your mindset throw you off.Who do we want to rank as a sergeant?You might have 15 years on the street and be excellent at it.But, I want the person who will work 4 hours a day in.That's who I want to rank.So, who gives a So, who actually cares?Who is up to date on what this department is doing right now?What direction are we heading in?Do you have that concern?Do you even care?I want you to rank as a sergeant.The SWAT spot will have my vote to give an F less.Good luck, man.You're probably really good at this, but you need more.I want to see the person who really cares, who's going to stand on the line.
That's who they want to have on the rank of sergeant.On top of that,
this mind-blowing tripwire.If you can't handle that, I don't think I want you monitoring vehicles soon.Do you see what I mean?They're stuck in a box with 100 multiple-choice written questions.And they're trying to test your ability to be a sergeant on the NYPD.That's difficult.They're going to try, and this is how.They used to be I had to come in two separate Saturdays.One for written.The following Saturday, all 10,000 of us had to go and watch a video, analyze video and answer questions.That year, 1988, the lieutenants had a sit-down interview, just like a regular job interview.They had to come down come in and be interviewed.Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits.They're stuck in a box with 100 multiple-choice written questions.And they're trying to test your ability to be a street sergeant.It's difficult.That's why they do this Study hard, listen to George father's program, get up to 4 hours, do your three sets of four each week, by January you'll be a sergeant.
That's how this works.All right, I'm almost done.Uh turn page, one more page.Okay.The last page I covered is facts mail.I I covered that one pretty well.But every place that they say fax and mail or fax or mail, you pull them out, you put them here and write on this page to you.Send it to the supervisor later.That also saves the paperwork to ESU's AVP coordinator.Both ways, fax and mail.What is 2018?23 souls are selling lots of paper and 20 cents to 61 by fax or mail.Again, you don't have to do this research.That's why I say, "You're out of state and you call me up and say, 'I did 443 years and I'm going to give you my notes.'"That's the sense of what this comes down to.Read the program once, then come here and study the lesson plan with us.
Engage in all these tactics, particularly the personal habits of study habits, and then you're fine.I'm ready to stop but George is not here to stop the counting, so we're going to continue.Okay.There's a lot more in the tactics section.It's 27 pages, right?There's questions that I didn't cover with you.The answers are very well articulated in the lesson plan.And uh we're going to take a short break.I don't know what's going to happen then.It's 10:20 right now.Uh let's take a 5-minute break and then George is going to come and take you through chapter 4 or 2.All right.