Executive Officer Civil Service

whatlliwear

Can anyone offer some advice on the best way to prepare for this exam?

Does anyone know any good websites or books?

I can't find anything

Pablo Sanchez

Is there an exam coming up?

whatlliwear

There's a confined one coming up..

Hate those blasted exams!

Clauric

Not sure if you noticed, but the EO exam posted recently by the PAC is limited to 3 government departments, and not to anybody else.

gazzer

Clauric wrote: »

Not sure if you noticed, but the EO exam posted recently by the PAC is limited to 3 government departments, and not to anybody else.

Looks like any CO's that are promoted to SO/EO in those departments will not be replaced so there is going to be even less of them in those departments.

Nolanger

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/verbaltest.htm

whatlliwear

Clauric wrote: »

Not sure if you noticed, but the EO exam posted recently by the PAC is limited to 3 government departments, and not to anybody else.

Yes, I sure did..

mox54

personally i wouldnt bother doing any exam for the civil service, waste of bloody time as I've done loads and never got in and worked as an heo in UK civil service for 12 yrs, now working in private sector and earning much more than EO, if u can avoid working for civil service then please do because they are a lazy bunch of one trick ponies with no gumption!!! and i'm not bitter....sorry, yes I am but I'm better off:D

Nolanger

Also if you do well in the exam and interview you'll end up working with the thickest c*nts imaginable and you'll have to adapt (dumb down) to fit in

indiewindy

Nolanger wrote: »

Also if you do well in the exam and interview you'll end up working with the thickest c*nts imaginable and you'll have to adapt (dumb down) to fit in

Sounds like some-one whos not bitter at all that they couldnt get in

gollem_1975

Nolanger wrote: »

Also if you do well in the exam and interview you'll end up working with the thickest c*nts imaginable and you'll have to adapt (dumb down) to fit in

if its a closed exam isn't the OP already in the Civil Service ?

they are the ones working in permanent pensionable unsackable jobs..

maybe the rest of us are the thick ones

pog it

Indeed, and cute enough not to specify what executive officer job specifically

whatlliwear

pog it wrote: »

Indeed, and cute enough not to specify what executive officer job specifically

Cute? ha ha.. That's me!

Nolanger

whatlliwear wrote: »

Can anyone offer some advice on the best way to prepare for this exam?

Does anyone know any good websites or books?

I can't find anything

The ones to focus on are the Verbal reasoning and Job Sim. The Maths require a pass mark. For the Verbal reasoning it's True/False/Can't say. There are examples online. For the Job Sim you have to decide if the statement is good/bad and then give it a rating of 1/2/3. People who risk a + or - 3 usually do best.

Aglomerado

Have a look at this site, the verbal and numerical reasoning practice tests are in an identical format to what you'd be doing on an EO/ AO exam.

http://www.shldirect.com/