How many reading questions are on the Police entry exam?

National Testing Network publishes no question count at all — not for this type and not for the test as a whole, only that the whole sitting runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes in total. Any site that gives you an exact count has made it up. The 30-question run on this site is this site's own practice length, and it deals the types evenly.

Is this section timed?

Not on this page. These sets are for learning the type — each answer comes with an explanation straight away. When you want the clock, the full-length run is 30 questions in 25 minutes, which is 50 seconds a question.

Are these real questions from the test?

No. Every question here is original, written to the published format. The real item banks are confidential and nobody outside the publisher has them.

Police entry exam reading questions

Fill-in-the-blank sentences from the kind of material the job runs on.

50 questions in this set Untimed — explanation after each answer

Police entry exam reading 1 of 10

The officer could not enter the building because the door had been ______ from the inside.

What this type asks

NTN describes its reading test as fill-in-the-blank: a sentence drawn from real job material with one word missing, and four words to choose between. What is being measured is not vocabulary for its own sake but whether you read a procedural sentence closely enough to notice which word the sentence actually needs — and the wrong options are built to be the words that sound like the job rather than the ones that fit the sentence.

Word that best fits the blankNear-miss words from the same fieldProcedural and report languageWords that are commonly confused

Now do it with the clock running.

30 questions in 25 minutes — 50 seconds each. That clock is this site's, not the publisher's: National Testing Network does not print a length per question. Working under one is still the part untimed practice cannot teach.

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The other question types

Written language skills Situational judgment Full timed test

Frequently asked

How many reading questions are on the Police entry exam?: National Testing Network publishes no question count at all — not for this type and not for the test as a whole, only that the whole sitting runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes in total. Any site that gives you an exact count has made it up. The 30-question run on this site is this site's own practice length, and it deals the types evenly.
Is this section timed?: Not on this page. These sets are for learning the type — each answer comes with an explanation straight away. When you want the clock, the full-length run is 30 questions in 25 minutes, which is 50 seconds a question.
Are these real questions from the test?: No. Every question here is original, written to the published format. The real item banks are confidential and nobody outside the publisher has them.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the day it was read. Requirements change — open the source if you need today's wording.

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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