Two parts. You watch an incident on video twice, take notes and write a factual report against the clock; then multiple-choice questions ask about it, and you answer from your own report. Our questions use written scenes with a detail question, plus report sentences to judge for fact, order and clarity.
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Question 1 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 4:30 p.m., Officer Aaron Bell responds to Valley Motors, 2600 Commerce Drive. Sales manager Jill Carter says a man bought a used silver pickup for $18,500 on Saturday with a cashier's check. On Monday the bank told her the check was fake. The man gave his name as Robert Lane and showed an Ohio driver's license. Carter says he was about 50 years old, wore glasses and had a limp.
How did the man pay for the pickup?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: No money order is mentioned.
B
Incorrect: The check was a cashier's check, not a personal one.
C
Correct: Carter says the man paid with a cashier's check, which the bank later said was fake.
D
Incorrect: A debit card is never mentioned.
Question 2 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 11:20 a.m., Officer Dean Walsh takes a fraud report from Nora Kim, 52, at 19 Maple Court. Kim says her credit card, ending in 4417, was used for three purchases at Tech Depot yesterday totaling $1,380. She still has the card in her wallet. Her bank's fraud department, which called her at 9:05 a.m. today, told her the purchases were made online.
What are the last four digits of Kim's credit card?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: 4147 swaps the two middle digits.
B
Incorrect: 1744 rearranges the digits of the card number.
C
Incorrect: 4471 swaps the last two digits of the card number.
D
Correct: The passage gives the card number as ending in 4417.
Question 3 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 9:10 a.m., Officer Sara Quinn responds to 1305 Hawthorne Road, where resident George Lyle reports that his mailbox was smashed overnight. The wooden post is snapped and the black metal box is lying in the ditch. Lyle says three other mailboxes on his road were also hit. He found a broken baseball bat near the ditch and has not touched it. A neighbor, Carol Diaz, says she heard loud music from a passing car at about midnight.
What did George Lyle find near the ditch and leave untouched?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: No tire iron is mentioned.
B
Incorrect: The post is snapped, but the passage does not say Lyle found it by the ditch, and only the bat is described as untouched.
C
Correct: Lyle found a broken baseball bat near the ditch and says he has not touched it.
D
Incorrect: No side mirror is mentioned.
Question 4 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
Which sentence uses to / too / two correctly?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: "A third went to" needs "too" (meaning also) at the end.
B
Incorrect: "Too suspects" and "went two" both put the wrong word in the slot.
C
Incorrect: "Drove too the store" uses "too" where direction calls for "to."
D
Correct: "Two" is the number, "to" shows direction, and "too" means also, so each word is in its right place.
Question 5 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 3:40 p.m., Officer Todd Ruiz checks a vacant house at 1010 Spruce Street after a neighbor, Irene Vo, reports seeing a light inside. He finds a man, Wes Carter, 38, asleep on a mattress in the living room. The front and back doors are locked. The kitchen window is open and its screen is lying in the side yard. Carter says, "I just needed somewhere dry to sleep."
What did Officer Ruiz find lying in the side yard?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: The back door was locked, and no door screen is mentioned.
B
Correct: The kitchen window screen was lying in the side yard.
C
Incorrect: The mattress was in the living room, and the passage does not describe it as foam or rolled up.
D
Incorrect: No flashlight is mentioned.
Question 6 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 2:40 p.m., Officer Beth Ruiz responds to the Save-More parking lot, 50 Elm Road, for a child locked in a car. The mother, Tina Ward, says she accidentally locked the keys inside her blue Chevy Equinox with her son, Liam, age 2, strapped in the car seat. The engine is off. A shopper, Dave Kim, has a slim jim tool and offers to help. The fire department opens the door at 2:51 p.m.
Who opened the car door?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: Officer Ruiz responded, but the passage does not say she opened the door.
B
Incorrect: Dave Kim offered to help with his tool, but the passage does not say he opened the door.
C
Incorrect: The mother had locked the keys inside and could not open the door.
D
Correct: The passage says the fire department opened the door at 2:51 p.m.
Question 7 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 3:25 p.m., Officer Ray Soto finds a green Toyota Tacoma reported stolen from 16 Ash Street two days ago. It is parked behind the closed Pine Motel on Route 2. The driver's window is broken, the ignition is punched, and the radio is missing. Two empty energy-drink cans are on the floor. The owner, Nick Walsh, arrives at 4:05 p.m. and says the truck's toolbox is also gone.
What did Nick Walsh say was also missing?
Answer explanations
A
Correct: Walsh says the truck's toolbox is also gone.
B
Incorrect: The truck's radio was already gone when the officer arrived. Walsh did not add it.
C
Incorrect: The truck's keys are never mentioned. The ignition was punched.
D
Incorrect: No spare tire is mentioned.
Question 8 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 2:30 p.m., Officer Kim Soto responds to 58 Garden Street. Homeowner Frank Neal says his red riding lawn mower was taken from his open carport between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. while he was at work. A neighbor, Pam Doyle, says she saw two men load a red mower onto a flatbed trailer pulled by a gray pickup at about 11:30 a.m. She thought they were a landscaping crew. Neal values the mower at $2,100.
At about what time did Pam Doyle see the mower being loaded?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: 2:00 p.m. is the end of that window.
B
Correct: Doyle says she saw the mower loaded at about 11:30 a.m.
C
Incorrect: 10:00 a.m. is the start of the window when Neal was at work.
D
Incorrect: 12:30 p.m. is not mentioned in the passage.
Question 9 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
Put these report sentences in chronological order: (1) I placed Moore in the rear seat of my patrol car. (2) I saw a gray sedan run the red light at Oak Street and 9th Avenue. (3) The driver, Kevin Moore, could not produce a license. (4) I stopped the sedan in the 900 block of Oak Street.
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: 2, 3, 4, 1 has the officer learning about the license before he stopped the car.
B
Correct: 2, 4, 3, 1: he saw the red light violation, stopped the car, found the driver had no license, and then placed him in the patrol car.
C
Incorrect: 2, 4, 1, 3 puts Moore in the patrol car before the officer learned he had no license.
D
Incorrect: 4, 2, 3, 1 has him stopping the sedan before he saw it run the light.
Question 10 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
Officer Kerr sees a man standing on a corner at 2:00 a.m., looking into parked cars and walking away when her patrol car approaches.
Which report sentence records only what Officer Kerr saw?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: "Looking for cars to break into" states his intent, which she could not see.
B
Correct: Looking into parked cars and walking away as the car approached are exactly what she saw, with no guess about why.
C
Incorrect: "Casing" and "fled when he saw" are conclusions about his intent, not things she saw.
D
Incorrect: "Ran away" is close, but she saw him walk off, not run.
Question 11 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 1:30 p.m., Officer Rob Lane meets Jill Morgan at SafeStore Storage, 900 Depot Road. Morgan says the lock on her unit, C-114, was cut, and two bicycles, a kayak and three boxes of holiday decorations are missing. The site manager, Hank Oyler, says the gate code log shows unit C-141's code was used at 2:17 a.m. Morgan last visited her unit two weeks ago.
Which unit was broken into?
Answer explanations
A
Correct: Morgan's unit is C-114, and its lock was cut.
B
Incorrect: C-411 does not appear in the passage.
C
Incorrect: B-114 does not appear in the passage.
D
Incorrect: C-141 is the unit whose gate code was used, not the unit that was broken into.
Question 12 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
Which sentence is clearest about who did what?
Answer explanations
A
Correct: Each man is named, and "him" naturally points back to Hall, so the reader knows who pushed whom.
B
Incorrect: After "Mr. Hall and Mr. Diaz argued," both "he" and "him" could mean either man.
C
Incorrect: "He said" never names the speaker, so the reader cannot tell who is talking.
D
Incorrect: In "Mr. Hall told Mr. Diaz that he had pushed him," the pronouns could mean either man.
Question 13 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 12:30 a.m., Officer Grace Liu is flagged down at the corner of Canal Street and 3rd Avenue by Jamal Ross, 28. Ross says two men approached him. The taller one, wearing a red cap, demanded his wallet while the shorter one stood behind him. Ross handed over his black wallet with $80 and a debit card inside. He says the men ran east on Canal Street and then turned south onto 4th Avenue. Ross is not injured.
According to Ross, which way did the men go after reaching 4th Avenue?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: They turned south, not north.
B
Incorrect: 3rd Avenue is where Ross was standing, not where the men went.
C
Correct: Ross says the men ran east on Canal Street and then turned south onto 4th Avenue.
D
Incorrect: They ran east on Canal Street before reaching 4th Avenue.
Question 14 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 4:10 p.m., Officer Dana Price responds to the Route 4 overpass at Glen Road. Driver Mike Cole says a rock thrown from the overpass cracked his windshield as he drove east in the left lane at about 3:55 p.m. He saw two boys on bikes on the overpass, one in a yellow shirt. A second driver, Sue Tan, in the right lane, says a rock hit her hood a minute later. Neither driver was injured.
In which lane was Mike Cole driving?
Answer explanations
A
Correct: Cole says he was driving east in the left lane.
B
Incorrect: Both the direction and the lane are wrong.
C
Incorrect: Sue Tan was the one in the right lane.
D
Incorrect: The westbound left lane has the wrong direction. Cole was driving east.
Question 15 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 6:10 p.m., Officer Ella Brooks responds to Style Studio Salon, 35 Bell Street. Owner Tasha Ward says $420 was taken from the cash drawer between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. Only three people used the register that afternoon: Ward, stylist Gina Lopez, and receptionist Amy Reed. Ward says Reed left early at 4:15 p.m., saying she felt sick. The drawer was not damaged.
At what time did Amy Reed leave?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: 5:00 p.m. is the end of the window when the money went missing.
B
Incorrect: 3:00 p.m. is the start of that window.
C
Incorrect: 4:50 p.m. is not mentioned in the passage.
D
Correct: Ward says Reed left early at 4:15 p.m.
Question 16 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
Which word correctly completes this report sentence? "The ______ was towed from the scene at 1430 hours."
Answer explanations
A
Correct: "Vehicle" is spelled with "-cle" at the end.
B
Incorrect: "Vehical" turns the "-cle" ending into "-cal": an a goes in before the l and the final e is dropped.
C
Incorrect: "Veicle" drops the h after "ve."
D
Incorrect: "Vehicel" swaps the last two letters, writing "-el" for "-le."
Question 17 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 8:50 a.m., Deacon Mary Stone reports a break-in at St. Luke's Church, 45 Vine Street. She tells Officer Leo Price that the side door was forced and two brass candlesticks and a donation box were taken from the altar area. The donation box held about $120. A silver cross on the wall was not touched. Stone locked the church at 7:30 p.m. the night before. A neighbor saw a flashlight inside at about 1:00 a.m.
Which item was NOT taken?
Answer explanations
A
Incorrect: The money in the donation box was taken along with the box.
B
Correct: Stone says the silver cross on the wall was not touched.
C
Incorrect: The brass candlesticks were taken from the altar area.
D
Incorrect: The donation box was taken.
Question 18 of 18 · Incident Observation and Report WritingNot answered
At 12:10 p.m., Officer Jen Soto responds to Parkview Apartments, 500 Grove Street. Resident Dan Hill says the cluster mailbox by the entrance was pried open overnight and mail was taken from several boxes, including his box, number 16. The building manager, Lucy Tran, says boxes 12 through 18 were opened. Hill was expecting a new debit card in the mail.
According to the manager, which boxes were opened?
Answer explanations
A
Correct: The manager, Lucy Tran, says boxes 12 through 18 were opened.
B
Incorrect: Boxes 12 through 16 stops at Hill's own box, but the manager's range runs past it.
C
Incorrect: Boxes 16 through 18 starts at Hill's box, but the manager's range begins lower.
D
Incorrect: Boxes 10 through 18 starts too low. The manager's range begins at a higher number.
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How the section runs
A worked example first: a sample situation and an example report show what a good response looks like.
The scene, twice: the test scenario plays two times, with time between viewings for notes.
The report:10 minutes of writing, from your notes.
Part two: multiple-choice questions, answered from the report you wrote.
Split the page before the scene starts, so the second viewing only fills gaps:
When / where: time, address, which room or corner.
Who: names, ages, clothing, anything that tells two people apart.
What, in order: one line per action, numbered.
Numbers: plates, amounts, card digits, unit numbers. Copy them exactly.
Property and injuries: what was taken, left, damaged; who was hurt.
First viewing for the sequence, second for the exact details.
What a factual report looks like
Plain sentences, in time order, about what people did and said. Write "the driver could not produce a license," not "the driver seemed nervous." Put the stop before the search and the search before the arrest, and name who did each thing. Portland calls this part a written language ability test, so spelling and sentence structure count along with content; no public rubric says how much.
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Myth: part two is a memory test
It is a notes test. The questions ask for details you saw, and a detail question can offer near twins: a card ending 2739 against 2793, 11:30 against 11:13. If it is not on your page, you are guessing.
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Yes: a 10-minute written report on a video scenario. You watch the scene twice and take notes first, then answer multiple-choice questions from your report.
Is spelling graded on the NTN report?
NTN publishes no rubric. Portland describes the section as written language ability, so write clean, complete sentences and spell names the way you noted them.
Can I use my notes in part two?
Part two is answered from the report you wrote; NTN's page describes the notes as the basis for writing that report. So anything that matters has to make it from your notes into the report.