Municipal civil service examinations
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Overview of the Records
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
37 cubic feet
(159 volumes)
Arrangement
Chronological by year of examination, then alphabetical by name of the municipality (except school district examinations which appear in the last volume for the year).
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of bound civil service examinations administered by a municipal civil service commission, the Department of Civil Service, or jointly by both. Filed for each examination are the announcement(s), instruction sheet(s), and the actual examination with correct answers indicated. On occasion one or all of these documents are missing and this is indicated by a notice.
Examination announcements contain the following information: the dates when the announcement was issued, application was closed, and the examination was held; the position's title, duties and salary; minimum qualifications for admittance to the examination; examination's subject and relative weight of its components; general information and civil service rules (i.e. veterans' credits, fees, notification of results). Instruction sheets contain the examination's rules, number of questions, time allowed, and instructions for filing of necessary forms and the answer sheet. The examination itself contains the actual questions and their answers.
Related Material
Series B0503, State Administered Civil Service Examinations, and Series 14103, Municipal Examination Administration Files, contain pre-1944 examinations for local positions.
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