NEW 2020 Assistant Principal Officer Competition

Rdwrer

Rainbowstar wrote: »

There's no negative marking you're just scored for the ones you get right!

How do you know this?

granturismo

Does anyone know how many questions are in the Situational exam?

thanks

RedBarchetta

granturismo wrote: »

Does anyone know how many questions are in the Situational exam?

thanks

16

quad_red

Rainbowstar wrote: »

There's no negative marking you're just scored for the ones you get right!

PAS have specifically refused to confirm/deny this. How do you know?

Orchid1

SJ Test done. There was technical glitch half way through where it told me my answers couldn’t be saved . Had to ring the helpline but all fine in the end. Just in case anyone has a similar issue

griffid

Orchid1 wrote: »

SJ Test done. There was technical glitch half way through where it told me my answers couldn’t be saved . Had to ring the helpline but all fine in the end. Just in case anyone has a similar issue

Oh lord the panic!!!!

Adman13

Are they using only the verbal and situational tests for ranking purposes, do we know?

Hope so as my numerical wouldn't have been top marks for sure!

MrMistoffelees

Done & dusted - phew!
Now for a glass of wine

MrMistoffelees

Adman13 wrote: »

Are they using only the verbal and situational tests for ranking purposes, do we know?

Hope so as my numerical wouldn't have been top marks for sure!

That’s what they used last time

Cheeseplant

quad_red wrote: »

PAS have specifically refused to confirm/deny this. How do you know?

I guess we don't know this for sure but I'd imagine if there was negative marking there would have to be a note in the instructions telling you not to guess. From memory, don't these tests usually say something about not spending too long in a question and make your best guess and move on??

Adman13

MrMistoffelees wrote: »

That’s what they used last time

Thanks, hope so.

Orchid1

Does anyone know how long it generally takes to get the results?

The Student

Just completed them. Best of luck to all. Any idea will there still be physical sitting of exams in future phases of this competition with covid etc?

Orchid1

Just finished them too. Found numerical very tough

Pdbtsi

Done. Found verbal fine but did struggle with time in the numerical. And the practice question at the beginning totally threw me!

Connected99

I got a 2nd message from PAS Friday saying there was issues with link issued on Thurs 28th and they sent the link again for the actual tests.. 😊

Based on reading the last few posts here...
Are the verbal/numerical layouts different from the practice tests we were sent from PAS?
I've done the cut-E tests before but not SHL tests....

Thanks..

Caip79

completed tests, found numerical extremely difficult, was running out of time and ended up guessing a lot. Verbal and situational I found fine. Does anyone know if we need to get a certain rate on numerical to be considered or is the marking just against situational and verbal?

dellbell111

Caip79 wrote: »

completed tests, found numerical extremely difficult, was running out of time and ended up guessing a lot. Verbal and situational I found fine. Does anyone know if we need to get a certain rate on numerical to be considered or is the marking just against situational and verbal?

How much time was given for the numerical. I am Totally dreading it as it's not my strong point

Caip79

18 mins for 12 q’s

Orchid1

It’s 18 questions in 25 mins. I did it earlier and that was definitely the timing. Not sure about above post?

mariagirl

Im just wondering if these tests, especially the numerical are much more difficult to what PAS sent in the pre test material a couple of weeks ago. I found these impossible..are the real tests equally difficult? are there a lot of cslculations in the test one? Thanks

griffid

I have been doing practice tests for numerical all week and I have literally gotten no better. Soul destroying. Surely by now I’d have coped on to at least reading the question properly???

Orchid1

I did practice numerical questions all week, was feeling far more confident and getting the majority of practice questions right but I didn’t feel the practice questions reflected the difficulty of the test to be honest. Time was also a big issue for the last few questions. I’m not even sure i managed a pass in the end. The only thing is that a lot of people seem to struggle with the numerical so I guess that’s some consolation

Caip79

sorry typo

Anonire

granturismo wrote: »

Does anyone know how many questions are in the Situational exam?

thanks

16 scenarios 100 questions in total..

Anonire

Connected99 wrote: »

I got a 2nd message from PAS Friday saying there was issues with link issued on Thurs 28th and they sent the link again for the actual tests.. ��

Based on reading the last few posts here...
Are the verbal/numerical layouts different from the practice tests we were sent from PAS?
I've done the cut-E tests before but not SHL tests....

Thanks..

I've done cut e also.
I found these ones to be alot more generous time wise and also alot less reading. No sifting through tabs.. Wether or not my answers are correct now I don't know.

Aglomerado

I did it this afternoon, found it very difficult, even though I remember some of the questions from previous years (work uniforms costings have come up many times!)
Didn't like not being able to revisit a question if I skipped it.
Oh well.

Pdbtsi

I like that the numerical test had several questions on one graph / table, as opposed to the practice in which you had one question per graph/table and therefore had to absorb new information each time. Not that it helped me much, mind!

Audreyly

Did the exams yesterday evening, found the numerical very tough, 18 questions in 25 minutes. didn’t complete all the questions so guessed the last few, let’s hope no negative marking lol, Practice test was different to the real test. Had a glitch in the situational section, one of my scenarios didn’t match the questions I was being asked, Q’s 61-67, have email the help line about it, waiting on a reply, there are 16 scenarios in this section but 100 questions overall

Audreyly

Did the exams yesterday evening, found the numerical very tough, 18 questions in 25 minutes. didn’t complete all the questions so guessed the last few, let’s hope no negative marking lol, Practice test was different to the real test. Had a glitch in the situational section, one of my scenarios didn’t match the questions I was being asked, Q’s 61-67, have email the help line about it, waiting on a reply, there are 16 scenarios in this section but 100 questions overall