Semi-Stock Promotional Test Service

Please email the Assessment Services Department to request a free Semi-Stock Test Packet. Let us know which stock promotional test you are interested in customizing to your needs. A Test Security Agreement must be on file prior to receiving the packet.

Suit Our Stock Tests To Your Needs

IPMA-HR’s Assessment Services Department’s Customized Test Service enables agencies to customize a stock test to create something called a semi-stock test. A semi-stock test is a unique blend of questions that appear in IPMA-HR’s promotional stock tests and of items that do not appear in the stock tests. Test questions can be added or deleted from the stock tests. Adding questions to the stock test can be done in one of two ways—by selecting questions from IPMA-HR’s item bank or ordering new questions through our Item Writing Service. Customization allows agencies to assess competencies that are important for effective performance at different ranks within their specific departments.

Please note that while semi-stock tests are available for any of our stock promotional exams, additional questions for corrections and emergency communications tests are only available through our Item Writing Service.

Reading List

Please be aware that you will work with an IPMA-HR representative to create a required reading list for this test. Candidates must receive this reading list 60 days or more prior to the exam. Be sure to allow enough time for candidates to do the following:

• Locate a copy of each book (which could take up to two weeks if candidates order copies online).
• Study all the books (60 days or more).

If you do not provide our reading list to your candidates, you may experience a high failure rate. Please do not assume that candidates will do well on our test without having studied the information in these books. It’s possible that candidates have not been exposed to the information in these books before. The study period is important for learning purposes and is also an important developmental experience for candidates. 

Item Writing Service

IPMA-HR also offers you the opportunity to use your own texts, departmental policies, and standard operating procedures from which our professional item writers can create up to 25 questions that can be added to questions you choose from the knowledge areas available. Please note that IPMA-HR's membership discount cannot be used toward this service.

Pricing

Non-Rush Orders

(More than 3 weeks from testing date)

$20.00 per test booklet with a 75-question minimum + $300 labor fee.

• Two additional questions per knowledge area will be included on your Preliminary Test from the Item Bank so you can choose the most appropriate questions. If you decide to keep the two additional questions on your Final Test, you will be charged for them. Please note that additional questions will not be provided through the Item Writing Service.
• If a Preliminary Test is not requested, you will be billed for the number of questions you request for your Final Test.

If you choose to use IPMA-HR’s item writing service to include up to 25 questions from an outside source material of your choice, these questions will cost: $58.00 per question with a 25-question maximum + $300 labor fee.

Rush Orders

(3 weeks or less from testing date)

$20.00 per test booklet with a 75-question minimum + $300 labor fee + $500 rush shipment.

• Two additional questions per knowledge area will be included on your Preliminary Test from the Item Bank so you can choose the most appropriate questions. If you decide to keep the two additional questions on your Final Test, you will be charged for them. Please note that additional questions will not be provided through the Item Writing Service.
• If a Preliminary Test is not requested, you will be billed for the number of questions you request for your Final Test.
• IPMA-HR’s item writing service is not available for rush orders.