Civil Service Test Study Guides
English Skills

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• English & Writing Skills

• Reading Comprehension/Word Problems

• Vocabulary
  

ENGLISH & WRITING SKILLS

• Language usage, spelling and grammar questions from the State of Wisconsin.  Download the Exam Guide.

• Sample civil service written questions from the State of Louisiana for English usage and written communications.

• Written expression questions from the County of Los Angeles

• New York State Public Employees Federation offers Promotion Test Battery Study Guides for written communication questions with answer keys.

• Writing tips - covering sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

• Writing - sample questions

• Customs and Border Patrol study guide on the Managerial Writing Skills Exercise.  Although focused on border patrol activities, provides detailed discussion and practice questions with answers and explanations.

1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss, 2004 

2. Grammar for Smart People: Your User-Friendly Guide to Speaking and Writing Better English, Barry Tarshis, 1993 - RECOMMENDED

3. Grammatically Correct: The Writer's Essential Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style, Usage and Grammar, Anne Stilman, 1997

4. The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr., 2000  - RECOMMENDED

5. The Gregg Reference Manual (9th Ed), William A. Sabin, 2000 - RECOMMENDED

6. Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day (Skill Builders Series), Judith F. Olson, 1998

READING COMPREHENSION/WORD PROBLEMS

• Reading comprehension questions from the State of Wisconsin.  Download the Exam Guide.

• Reading Comprehension questions from the County of Los Angeles

• Sample civil service written questions from the State of Louisiana for reading comprehension.

1. 501 Reading Comprehension Questions (Skill Builders Practice), Shirley Tarbell, 1999

2. Power Reading: The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed!, Rick Ostrov, 2001  - RECOMMENDED

3. Reading Comprehension Success: In 20 Minutes a Day (2nd Edition),  Elizabeth Chesla, 1998

4. Triple Your Reading Speed, 3rd Ed, Wade E. Cutler, 1993

VOCABULARY

• Sample civil service written questions from the State of Louisiana for spelling.

• Grammar & Vocabulary - sample questions

• Spelling - sample questions

1. Civil Sevice Arithmetic and Vocabulary Review, Arco, 2004

2. Illustrated Word Smart : A Visual Vocabulary Builder (Princeton Review Series), Tom Meltzer, 1999 

3. Vocabulary Cartoons: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Visual Mnemonics, Sam Burchers, 1997

4. Words for Smart Test Takers, Mark Alan Stewart, 2001

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