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BOI Graduate Programme

  • 07-10-2007 3:40pm
    #1
    jackwalli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm applying for the Bank of Ireland graduate programme for the capital markets divison. I've been hearing from a lot of people that the online tests are a bit hard and nothing like the practice tests. I've tried the practice tests, but I really want to prepare well for the actual test - and I don't really believe that the practice tests are accurate. They seem impossibly easy. Has anybody done the actual tests yet this year?

    Does anybody have any advice on where to get some representative practice tests, or any advice on the application process as a whole (interviews, assessment centres, etc)?


Comments

  • #2
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    I'm assuming they'd be like any other graduate numerical, reasoning and verbal tests.

    If so go get a book on them in the book shop (Or from college if you're still there).

    Much like most tests in life they arent difficult but you need to practice at them. Going in from scratch you'll probably do crap compared to if you'd done it 2 or 3 times already.


  • #3
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    I did them last year. They are easy if you're good at them but it seems a lot of people aren't.
    I dropped out of the recruitment as I got a job elsewhere, so I don't know what happens after this.
    Anyway, go to your careers office and ask for a book on psychometric tests.


  • #4
    jackwalli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭jackwalli


    damnyanks wrote:
    I'm assuming they'd be like any other graduate numerical, reasoning and verbal tests.

    From what I've seen (in the practice ones) and heard (from others who attempted them), they're not like other standard tests (like the SHL ones that most banks use). Instead of just multiple choice when reading information from a graph, you're presented with different pages which you have to sift through to find the relevant info. It seems a lot harder than other ones I've done. The problem doesn't seem to be the difficulty interpreting the information, it seems to be difficulty in finding where the information is hidden accross different pages. So I'm basically looking for other difficult practice tests in a similar format.


  • #5
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Pythia wrote:
    I did them last year. They are easy if you're good at them but it seems a lot of people aren't.
    I dropped out of the recruitment as I got a job elsewhere, so I don't know what happens after this.
    Anyway, go to your careers office and ask for a book on psychometric tests.

    I'd agree with that. Getting by the interviews are key. There are a number of key areas they look for. Know what the areas are and you are sorted. For me, knowing the areas helped me get a job in BOI.

    I do know capital markets have a different set of tests. What they look like I don't know.

    If you want more info on the bank in general and what it's like, drop me a PM.


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