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Section A - Incident Report Writing Aptitude
Section A: Incident Report Writing Aptitude
Police officers are frequently required to write incident reports. Sections A contains three sections, Spelling, Vocabulary, and Grammar and Punctuation, which assess skills important to writing these reports.
The SSPO (Sigma Survey for Police Officers) was designed to identify candidates who have the cognitive skills to use sound practical judgment in police situations and who are capable of writing meaningful and credible police incident reports. The SSPO (Part B Exam) is broken into two major sections, starting with Section A, consists of 44 questions which measure: spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar.
SPELLING
The essence of testing how to spell properly is considered to the main component of communication. Spelling also seeks to test literacy and the ability to recognise the more difficult words in a sentence.
During the exam, you will see a list of 28 words that a police officer might use in writing a report. Read each word and decide whether or not it is spelled correctly. If you think that it is spelled correctly, select “YES” if you think that it is spelled incorrectly, select “NO.”
VOCABULARY
The essence of testing vocabulary is to examine the depth and breadth of vocabulary and the recognition of words, along with the associated meanings and how it is used in context.
Use the contextual clues in each sentence to identify the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the underlined example.
GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION
For each question, you will be given a series of four sentences that might be a part of a police officer’s report. Your task is to decide which one of the four sentences is written correctly.
- Incident Report Writing Overview