PATI – Police Analytical Thinking Inventory (Ontario)
Police Analytical Thinking Inventory PATI
The Police Analytical Thinking Inventory (PATI) Exam is a standardized written police entrance examination used across Ontario. The PATI Exam is designed to assess your analytical thought processing ability and to gauge your aptitudes which are necessary for a career in policing. You will have up to 90 minutes to complete the exam which covers the following 3 key areas:
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to draw appropriate conclusions from information provided. Police are often required to make sense of evidence by drawing conclusions about its relevance and meaning. This is tested through the Syllogism and Travel Time tasks.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to identify trends or common characteristics in a series of objects or information presented. Police officers often need to sift through seemingly disconnected facts and make judgments about how they fit together. This is tested through the Classification and Series Completion
tasks. - Quantitative Reasoning: The ability to apply basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions to solve problems. Police are required to apply arithmetic processes to determine rates of speed, stopping distance, etc. and this ability is tested on the Word Problems and Arithmetic tasks
The PATI test topics include:
- Mathematics
- Problem Solving
- Matching
- Series
- Syllogisms
- Map Reading
Note: A successful PATI result is valid for three years
The Police Ready Membership includes 8 Full PATI practice tests plus other practice police exams and police preparation material. The Police Ready testing system is designed with interactive scoring and historical feedback features so you can monitor and measure your testing performance over time.
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