Garda Recruitment - Stage 1a(2) - The Aptitude Test Results thread

Marshall987 wrote: »

Just got a text message saying I have a message in my account :-0

and do you?

just over 12,000 have passed this stage. Those 12,000 have been broken down into three batches. The first batch will be 1-5000, the 2nd is roughly 5001-9000 and the third is 9000-12000

Garda Trainee 2013 Campaign

Candidates for this campaign were required to take a number of tests which are designed to identify potential to become a Garda Trainee. The selection process has been developed to assess the key skills and attributes necessary to perform effectively as a Garda Trainee. You were required to meet the minimum qualifying score on each of the three tests.

When using psychometric such as those you undertook at Stage 1; i.e. Assessment Questionnaire, Verbal test and Discovering Rules, rather than having one mark or two marks per correct answer, statistics are used to calculate candidate performance so that it can understand how each candidate performed relative to others.

For example, for the Garda Trainee campaign, it was necessary to combine the candidate results from three different tests. Because the Questionnaire has more items than the Verbal Test or the Discovering Rules test and all three have different levels of difficulty, it is not possible to just add the results together.

Therefore, results are converted into a similar scale for each test. This means that it is possible to add different test results together and ensure each test will have the same weighting. Please note that scores from this round will not carry to subsequent stages.

In this instance the scores range from 0 to 8,000 for each test.

You have been provided you with your score on each test; additional details will not be provided on scoring e.g. right or wrong answers on each test.

Numbers in each Band:

Band Placings
1 1 to 5,000
2 5,001 to 9,000
3 9,001 to 12,602

So does this mean half of people who applied will get to stage 2? Anyone else get a message?

Likewise, whoever is number 1 should be given the commissioners job, some achievement whoever it is

Wow that's harsh.... Look like there really going to start motoring with the recuirtment to get recuirts in fast, it crazy people who didn't progress won't ever get a chance of been a garda.

anybody else get a message yet?

or is it just Randomuser?

also fair play to randomuser for posting up,

Now this is a super random guess but normally results issue in batches of lets say pass/fail. e.g. for accuarcy you would have in this case 4 seperate score files one for fails and then one for each successful batch.

So based on this i reckon the fail results were the first to issue given it has the larger amount and then the rest will follow.

Again I dont want to get peoples hopes up as it does take a few hours for results to issue from PAS servers. But fingers crossed those who havent heard yet MAY be getting good news!!!

Congrats juicy

Juicy432 wrote: »

Just received good news

Best of luck. Did you get a text or did you just check

its in batches.

RANDOMUSER wrote: »

its in batches.

Some one on another forum got into batch 3

The initial top 5000 will be called to the next stage first, as the need arises they'll dip into the other batches.

Its very similar to the way the TCO campaign has been done if anyone is familiar with that campaign

Im guessing (educated ones) at alot of this by the way, like everything on the interwebz dont believe everything you read

That would be my honest opinion but we'll have to wait and see exactly what the wording is for those who received results in batches 2 and 3.

Cant really see them testing a further 10,000 just for 300 posts, like i said earlier there is plenty within the 5000 to get what they need for now.

I could be wrong though