Here you’ll find free LEAB test practice questions and info on each section, the work style questionnaire, and the life experience survey. Let’s begin.
The Law Enforcement Aptitude Battery (LEAB) created by EB Jacobs is a police candidate assessment that consists of the following three sections: The Ability Test, The Work Styles Questionnaire, and the Life Experience Survey.
The EB Jacobs LEAB Ability test includes the following topics:
Yes, the test is challenging because it requires you to be skilled in a diverse range of topics. You will encounter Verbal, Numerical, and Logical questions that will challenge your cognitive abilities, knowledge, and reasoning. Quick thinking is also an issue because you'll need to answer these questions within a strict time limit.
For example, if you take your LEAB Ability Test in the state of Pennsylvania you’ll be required to answer questions on the following topics
The test will include 48 questions and you will have 1 hour and 40 minutes to complete it, that’s about 2 minutes per question.
Test yourself against some free LEAB ability questions to see how well you’ll do.
In this free LEAB practice exam, you’ll find example questions covering both verbal and math topics.
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Deductive and Inductive Practice
Information Ordering and Problem Sensitivity
Reading Comprehension and Written Communication
This section of the law enforcement aptitude battery aims to measure your cognitive abilities through multiple-choice questions spanning six distinct topics. Many questions aim to measure the clarity and accuracy of your written communication, and most if not all will revolve around law enforcement-related scenarios.
The six sections of this law enforcement aptitude test are:
Measure your ability to write and convey information in a clear and concise manner. The main reason the LEAB test measures this ability is to see that as a future police officer, you are able to document incidents and communicate with your colleagues effectively.
In these questions, you will be presented with Long or medium-length texts that describe law enforcement-related scenarios. It aims to measure your ability to extract relevant information and work accordingly, as you would need to do while reading a report or following guidelines as a future police officer.
Problem sensitivity questions measure your ability to properly identify problems. This relates to a variety of police-related scenarios, such as noticing something suspicious in a description given by a witness, an issue with equipment, or a deviation from procedures.
Deductive Reasoning questions measure your ability to take a general rule and apply it to specific cases. For instance, you may be asked to determine whether a specific law applies in a scenario you are presented with or to say if a case should be classified as one violation of the law as opposed to another.
This section of the LEAB test measures your ability to identify hidden patterns or rules in the given information, and then implement the rule in a different situation. This is the skill that allows law enforcement to put together a cohesive picture from the fragmented pieces of information that are found at a crime scene or an accident.
These questions aim to measure the candidate’s ability to decide on the correct course of action during typical law enforcement scenarios, according to the procedure. For instance, a police officer will regularly need to decide how to handle the scene of a car accident according to best practices and procedures.
While the abilities test is the largest part of the LEAB exam, the work styles questionnaire (Also known as the Police Psychological exam) is no less important and gives your employer an understanding of important mental attributes.
This section of the test is a short type of personality test in which you will need to answer short statements relating to your behavior or attitude toward different situations, both professional and personal.
It is a common misconception that there is no need to prepare for personality tests, and understanding the logic behind these tests and how to answer them in a way that best presents your strengths can highly improve your chances of passing.
Remember that not answering a question in the work styles questionnaire could result in your disqualification from the selection process, so be sure to answer everything!
Here is an example of a Work Styles Questionnaire question from the preparation
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This section is intended to gather information about your typical behavior and attitudes at work and also in your personal life. For example, you might be asked how often you are late for work on average during the year. You will be presented with multiple-choice questions, from which you will need to select the choice which matches you the closest.
We recommend allocating 20 minutes to answering this section of the test, and like the work styles questionnaire, it is vital to answer all the questions because otherwise you could be disqualified from the police hiring process.
The law enforcement aptitude battery is timed as a whole, and there is no time limit for individual sections. This is why you need to manage your time accurately and set yourself a general timeframe in advance.
You have 2.5 - 3 hours to complete the whole LEAB test, we recommend spending two-thirds of the time on the LEAB ability test and the rest on other sections.
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