Police exam practice test
The written parts of the entry exam most departments hire through: reading closely, writing correctly, and choosing between courses of action. 30 original questions on a 25-minute clock — 50 seconds each — with an explanation after every one.
Full practice run
30 questions. 25 minutes.
That is 50 seconds a question. The clock starts when you press the button and submits the test when it runs out. You will not be told whether an answer was right until the end — that is the point of a timed run.
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What the real test is, and what this page is
National Testing Network publishes one figure about the length of the law enforcement test: the sitting takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes in total. It does not publish how many questions there are, how long each part runs, or what score passes — and departments set their own bar anyway. Any site that tells you the exact number of questions has invented it.
So the clock on this page is ours, not theirs. What is not invented is the shape: every question type below is one NTN describes on its own test-details page, written in the form that page describes it in.
The two parts this page skips
The video human relations test. You watch a scene and pick the best course of action; the items play without stopping and you get ten seconds each. NTN is explicit that no law enforcement experience is needed and that everything required to answer is in the scene — it is a judgment test, not a knowledge one. A text page cannot reproduce it, so this site does not pretend to. The publisher sells practice for it, and that is the honest place to get it.
The report you write. A scenario plays twice with time to take notes, then you have ten minutes to write a factual report, and then you answer multiple-choice questions using the report you just wrote. The multiple-choice half rewards the same habit the language section here drills: write what you observed, in order, without conclusions. The writing half needs a marker, not a quiz.
Also called
The same written test turns up under several names, depending on who is hiring and where.
Frequently asked
- How many questions is the police entry exam, and how long is it?
- National Testing Network publishes one length figure and no counts: the sitting runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes in total, across a video test, a written test and, for law enforcement, a physical abilities test on the same or another day. There is no published number of questions and no published time per section. The 30-question, 25-minute run on this page is this site's practice length.
- What is actually on it?
- NTN describes five parts: a video human relations test, a written situational judgment test, a reading test in fill-in-the-blank form, a language skills assessment (punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence structure) and a report you write from a scenario, followed by multiple-choice questions about your own report. The three parts that can honestly be practised as multiple choice are the ones on this page.
- Why is the video part not here?
- Because it needs the video. The human relations test plays scenarios without stopping and gives ten seconds to answer each — a page of text cannot reproduce that, and pretending otherwise would be selling practice for the wrong thing. The publisher, Ergometrics, sells its own practice for exactly that part, and its site is linked in the sources below.
- Is there a passing score?
- Not one that NTN publishes. Departments set their own bar and use the score in their own way, so a score on this page is feedback on these questions and nothing more.
- Are these real exam questions?
- No. Every question here is original, written to the format the publisher describes. The real item bank is confidential and nobody outside the publisher has it lawfully.
- Do I need an account?
- No. There is no sign-up and nothing to buy on this page. Scores stay in your own browser.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read. Requirements change; if a source has moved on since that date, the source is right and this page is out of date.
- National Testing Network — Law Enforcement Testing System (FrontLine National), test details page Read August 28, 2026
- National Testing Network — Candidate Frequently Asked Questions Read August 28, 2026
- Ergometrics & Applied Research — practice tests for FrontLine National, FireTEAM, REACT and START Read August 28, 2026
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