Postal Exam 955 study guide
Postal Exam 955 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Postal Exam 955 is a hiring assessment used within the United States Postal Service application process. This page is an independent study resource: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by USPS, and it does not reproduce any official test material. Before you plan a study schedule, note an important limitation. When this page's source was retrieved on 2026-10-31, the USPS About page at about.usps.com/careers/employment/postal-exam-955.htm returned a 'Page or file not found' error. The Postal Exam 955 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,227 words.
01Verbal Reasoning: Answer Only What the Text Supports
Verbal reasoning items test whether you can state the main idea, locate a supporting detail, define a word from its context, and decide what a passage implies without going beyond it. Most items give a short paragraph followed by four or five candidate conclusions.
335 words, about 2 min02Numerical Reasoning: Set Up Before You Compute
Numerical reasoning items are usually short word problems: percentages and percent change, ratios and proportions, averages, rates (units per hour, miles per gallon), simple unit conversions, and number sequences. The arithmetic is rarely hard; the difficulty is choosing the right operation and the right base.
281 words, about 1 min03Attention to Detail: Compare Characters, Not Meanings
Attention-to-detail items present pairs of names, addresses, ZIP codes, dates, account numbers, or dollar amounts and ask whether they are identical or how many differences exist. Others ask you to apply a coding rule (each letter maps to a digit, for example) or to spot which entry in a list breaks a pattern.
278 words, about 1 min04Workplace Scenarios: Rank the Response, Do Not Describe It
Situational judgment items describe a workplace problem - a late coworker, a damaged parcel, an upset customer, a shortcut a teammate suggests - and ask what you would do. There is usually one professional answer and several that are convenient, emotional, or passive.
333 words, about 2 min