AFP Officer Candidate study plan

Map the national policing domain into its core sub-areas (legislation, governance and accountability, community policing, investigations, operational safety) and rate your confidence in each on a 1-5 scale

Build a one-page glossary of Australian policing terms and acronyms you meet this week, defining each from primary sources

Identify the primary-source documents you will use for domain 1 (legislation on the Federal Register of Legislation, agency annual reports, public policy documents) and bookmark them

Draft a 30-question self-test on national policing fundamentals and record your baseline score

Explain how Commonwealth, state and territory policing responsibilities divide, and where they overlap, in writing without notes

Summarise the main accountability mechanisms that oversight a police organisation (ministerial, parliamentary, integrity bodies, complaints commissions) in a comparison table

Work through 40 practice questions on national policing and log every wrong answer with the reason it was wrong

Teach one sub-area aloud to an imagined recruit in under five minutes and note where you stumbled

Analyse scenario-style questions on community policing and public order, writing a structured answer plan for each before checking any answer key

Compare the powers and safeguards that apply during an investigation, and state the practical consequence of getting each safeguard wrong

Revise your week 2 error log and re-attempt every missed question until each is correct twice in a row

Condense domain 1 into a two-page summary sheet written from memory, then correct it against your notes

Sit a timed 60-question mixed set weighted 50/50 across both domains and record score, timing and confidence per question

Diagnose your weakest three national policing sub-areas from the timed set and write a targeted remediation list for each

Begin domain 2 by listing what makes ACT Policing distinct from other Australian policing bodies and verify each point against primary sources

Set a realistic target score for the remaining four weeks based on the week 4 result

Explain the governance arrangement under which ACT Policing operates and who is accountable to whom, drawing the structure as a diagram from memory

Describe the ACT's policing services contract model and the practical implications it has for how the organisation is run

Build a glossary of ACT-specific legislation, bodies and terminology, defining each term from primary sources

Answer 30 practice questions on ACT Policing and log errors with root causes

Compare ACT-specific offences, powers and procedures against the national framework and tabulate the differences that matter operationally

Work through scenario questions on ACT community engagement and local priorities, writing structured answer plans first

Re-attempt every question missed in week 5 until each is correct twice in a row

Condense domain 2 into a two-page summary sheet written from memory, then correct it against your notes

Sit two timed 60-question mixed sets at 50/50 weighting on separate days and compare results to spot unstable areas

Rewrite your two summary sheets to fix every gap the timed sets exposed

Practise 20 scenario questions under a strict time limit, focusing on answer structure rather than recall

Review both error logs end to end and confirm no error remains unresolved

Sit a full-length mock under exam conditions and score it against your week 4 target

Rework only the questions missed in the mock, writing the correct reasoning for each

Recite both summary sheets from memory and correct any drift from your notes

Plan exam-day logistics: timing per question, flag-and-return strategy and what to do when a question is unfamiliar