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PSNI Recruitment 2017

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  • #1602
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Could not be*


  • #1603
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    recruit099 wrote: »
    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Still no email about IST?
    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Still no email about IST?
    If you read the website you’d all see why there is no email

    From the website;

    "You will receive this link by the week commencing 20th November 2017."

    Not on the week commencing.

    The sentence is open thus could I fear that the link could be released before 20th...


  • #1604
    BlueCop8790
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭BlueCop8790


    Just thinking if you were to stay at garnerville during your training is there a curfew you have to be back in the station for ?


  • #1605
    RedPool2891
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭RedPool2891


    BlueCop8790 wrote: »
    Just thinking if you were to stay at garnerville during your training is there a curfew you have to be back in the station for ?
    You planning a few wild party nights??? lol

    I have no idea - I've never seen it mentioned on here, sorry.


  • #1606
    BlueCop8790
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭BlueCop8790


    RedPool2891 wrote: »
    BlueCop8790 wrote: »
    Just thinking if you were to stay at garnerville during your training is there a curfew you have to be back in the station for ?
    You planning a few wild party nights??? lol

    I have no idea - I've never seen it mentioned on here, sorry.
    Haha certainly not, I'd be too busy with my head in the books, just curious as I passed garnerville recently and seen the main gates were closed before 10pm.


  • #1607
    bangedtorights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭bangedtorights


    Well looks like it will be Monday before the IST links go out. It will be a busy day with emails firing out


  • #1608
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    One more day to go (hopefully) then this roller coaster ride is officially running.

    Good luck all, hopefully all boardies get through.


  • #1609
    Slo85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭Slo85


    Goonerdee wrote: »
    One more day to go (hopefully) then this roller coaster ride is officially running.

    Good luck all, hopefully all boardies get through.


    Best of luck everyone. Hopefully we all get the chance to progress to the next stage.


  • #1610
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Don't rush I to it guys take a couple days to get come practices in and do a couple of warm up questions before the test


  • #1611
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Don't rush I to it guys take a couple days to get come practices in and do a couple of warm up questions before the test

    Yeah, in practices I’m still not happy with my VRT results. I’ve tried looking at the questions then the paragraph and vice versa, the latter seems to be the better for me.


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  • #1612
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Goonerdee wrote: »
    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Don't rush I to it guys take a couple days to get come practices in and do a couple of warm up questions before the test

    Yeah, in practices I’m still not happy with my VRT results. I’ve tried looking at the questions then the paragraph and vice versa, the latter seems to be the better for me.

    Just remember.

    Ignore your own knowledge. The passage is gospel.

    If it says it's true in the passage it's true

    If it says it's false in the passage it's false

    If anything else it's can't tell


  • #1613
    BlueCop8790
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭BlueCop8790


    Good luck guys, it's all very real now, I'm desperately scanning the internet to find any tests I haven't done.


  • #1614
    KN1231999
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭KN1231999


    Ill probablyspend the next 3 or 4 days doing intense sessions to practice before i do the actual thing, will make sure to have a can of redbull beside me lol


  • #1615
    takodah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭takodah


    Some tips I have is watch out for words like “may” and “could”.

    Could be the difference between can’t tell and true/false.


  • #1616
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    KN1231999 wrote: »
    Ill probablyspend the next 3 or 4 days doing intense sessions to practice before i do the actual thing, will make sure to have a can of redbull beside me lol

    I may regret it but I’m giving my family my credit card and telling them to find somewhere to go for two or three hours lol.


  • #1617
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    takodah wrote: »
    Some tips I have is watch out for words like “may” and “could”.

    Could be the difference between can’t tell and true/false.

    That will depend entirely on the context of the question and the passage


  • #1618
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    takodah wrote: »
    Some tips I have is watch out for words like “may” and “could”.

    Could be the difference between can’t tell and true/false.

    That will depend entirely on the context of the question and the passage


  • #1619
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    For example.

    Passage states.

    "The increase in the use of renewable energy may be the cause to the increase of job losses in the oil industry"

    Question asks.

    Renewable energy has caused jobs losses in the oil industry.

    Answer is can't tell.

    The passage neither states that renewable energy is or is not the cause of the job losses.


  • #1620
    KN1231999
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭KN1231999


    Goonerdee wrote: »
    I may regret it but I’m giving my family my credit card and telling them to find somewhere to go for two or three hours lol.

    Sometimes its the only way to get some peace and quiet!!


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  • #1621
    mwat17
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭mwat17


    Hi all
    I'm practising as much as I can by just googling and trying to find verbal reasoning and SJT's and I'm not doing very well on those *sigh*

    It will break me not getting through the IST part, this is where I have failed before. Despite practising lots.

    Still no email here either


  • #1622
    TW2017
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭TW2017


    It’s now the 20th, still no email, hopefully it will come in around 7-9ish this morning.


  • #1623
    jwhdkl5736
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭jwhdkl5736


    TW2017 wrote: »
    It’s now the 20th, still no email, hopefully it will come in around 7-9ish this morning.
    My experience with the Deliotte part of the process is that when they promise to send an email on the day its usually between 09:00-11:00, rather than at exactly midnight. Give it a few hours yet.


  • #1624
    NiK9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭NiK9


    TW2017 wrote: »
    It’s now the 20th, still no email, hopefully it will come in around 7-9ish this morning.
    Haha yea I highly doubt that. They won't start work until 9am. Emails can go out at any time today.


  • #1625
    r896neo
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭r896neo


    I would advise everyone to try and relax a bit. This can be a very long and torturous process and if your already stressing out because it's one minute past midnight on the date given and your link is still not here you are going to go total barmy by the end of the recruitment process.

    Good luck to all doing the IST.


  • #1626
    Lockie101
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Lockie101


    Don’t post too often but today is the day, good luck everyone and may the odds be ever in your favour XD


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  • #1627
    KN1231999
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭KN1231999


    I wonder when they will send out emails, might not be until later,
    If i could give advise is to eat before you do it and have a good bit of caffeine in you to ensure youre locked in and focused to the max,it will increase your reading time and efficiency, also black out the room and wndows you are doing it in, ive had experiences in doing exam conditions like this and it really help you focus and brings out you maximum potential of your reading, problem solving skills and reading speed


  • #1628
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Be hydrated and have a wee before you start. Lol


  • #1629
    TW2017
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭TW2017


    Do we have a week to do this?


  • #1630
    Lockie101
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Lockie101


    KN1231999 wrote: »
    I wonder when they will send out emails, might not be until later,
    If i could give advise is to eat before you do it and have a good bit of caffeine in you to ensure youre locked in and focused to the max,it will increase your reading time and efficiency, also black out the room and wndows you are doing it in, ive had experiences in doing exam conditions like this and it really help you focus and brings out you maximum potential of your reading, problem solving skills and reading speed

    Agreed! Also, kinda common sense, but make sure you have a free house or at least ask the fam to stay in another room and keep the noise down for a while, obviously not in a rude way but they will understand that this is important. And yes, have some food and a cup of tea/coffee beforehand and relax before starting and have one, if not two, bottles of water beside you! You do not want to be getting up to get a drink and wasting valuable time


  • #1631
    TW2017
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭TW2017


    Also, is the test timed, or does your time count towards anything?


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  • #1632
    armchairrunner
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭armchairrunner


    Best of luck to you all genuinely hope everyone here succeeds!


  • #1633
    takodah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭takodah


    TEst is more than likely timed don’t think you score better for how quick you complete it. No one knows exactly as this is the new tests.


  • #1634
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Make sure you do a couple of warm ups before you do it.

    Do a couple of warm up sets of questions. Go away have a bit to eat, (a smoke if you smoke), some water, go to he toilet then sit down and crack on


  • #1635
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    TW2017 wrote: »
    Also, is the test timed, or does your time count towards anything?

    It may do. If the tests are psychometric alongside being a normal test then the speed you answer questions will adjust score.

    Also used to find cheats if you are answering questions far faster than the control group average.


  • #1636
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    The time you do it in wont count, only thing that counts is How many you get correct, whether it is completed or not.

    BTW,anyone get an email yet?


  • #1637
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Goonerdee wrote: »
    The time you do it in wont count, only thing that counts is How many you get correct, whether it is completed or not.

    BTW,anyone get an email yet?


    None of us can know that... This may not just be an electronic version of the old tests...


  • #1638
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    The guidance says that the SJTs part will be choose best and worst outcome.

    I highly doubt there will be right and wrong answers. I imagine the scoring will work on a tiered basis. The correct answer for right and wrong giving 4 points or something like that then the other answers tiered. Next right answer scores 3 so on so forth.

    But that's just speculation.


  • #1639
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Obs for TFCT there will be right and wrong answers


  • #1640
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    The only thing I can see on the PSNI website is that ISTs not fully completed will not be progressed. So, it looks like if you are down to your last minute and nowhere near the end, just guess an answer and hope for the best.


  • #1641
    Lockie101
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Lockie101


    You have 90 minutes to complete the test, from mentioned before in the thread, the speed you answer the questions is only used after the vetting stage to choose who goes to GV first (prove me wrong if i recall incorrectly). Better to take a little longer to ensure the answer is correct rather than blasting through them all hoping to just get the fastest time and probably the most wrong


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  • #1642
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    With SJTs the general common guidance and advice is go with the answer that feels right to.


  • #1643
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    I. E. Don't 2nd guess yourself


  • #1644
    Goonerdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Goonerdee


    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Goonerdee wrote: »
    The time you do it in wont count, only thing that counts is How many you get correct, whether it is completed or not.

    BTW,anyone get an email yet?


    None of us can know that... This may not just be an electronic version of the old tests...

    Personally I doubt they will make it more complicated than it needs be. They will have a figure in their heads of how many should progress through to the next stage and they will pick a number of correct answers close enough to achieve that figure. Hopefully the email will give more detail.


  • #1645
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Goonerdee wrote: »
    Banterbus28 wrote: »
    Goonerdee wrote: »
    The time you do it in wont count, only thing that counts is How many you get correct, whether it is completed or not.

    BTW,anyone get an email yet?


    None of us can know that... This may not just be an electronic version of the old tests...

    Personally I doubt they will make it more complicated than it needs be. They will have a figure in their heads of how many should progress through to the next stage and they will pick a number of correct answers close enough to achieve that figure. Hopefully the email will give more detail.

    It'll not be complicated for us if they decide to do it in any way as we are just the end user.

    They present a problem to us and we have to solve it.

    In order to rank people appropriately I do think the tiered scoring will exist for SJTs


  • #1646
    Robocop2k16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Robocop2k16


    Lockie101 wrote: »
    You have 90 minutes to complete the test, from mentioned before in the thread, the speed you answer the questions is only used after the vetting stage to choose who goes to GV first (prove me wrong if i recall incorrectly). Better to take a little longer to ensure the answer is correct rather than blasting through them all hoping to just get the fastest time and probably the most wrong


    90 minutes was for initial application. Where does it specify IST limit?


  • #1647
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    Lockie101 wrote: »
    You have 90 minutes to complete the test, from mentioned before in the thread, the speed you answer the questions is only used after the vetting stage to choose who goes to GV first (prove me wrong if i recall incorrectly). Better to take a little longer to ensure the answer is correct rather than blasting through them all hoping to just get the fastest time and probably the most wrong

    Generally the ranking discussion was about the old IST.


  • #1648
    Lockie101
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Lockie101


    It was said somewhere on the website about 90 minutes for the IST also, yeah I know none of us really know what way the ranking or points will work.... just do your best and what comes will come


  • #1649
    takodah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭takodah


    I don’t know where the 90mins is coming from unless there is far more questions than previously thought. I’m going on a 12minutes for the verbal reasoning and 20 approx for the other section. I also think you can do one section in one sitting and the other in another sitting.
    Correct answer is no one knows.


  • #1650
    Feckoffcup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Feckoffcup


    No emails :( looking like it's a no


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  • #1651
    Banterbus28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Banterbus28


    12 mins and 20 seems very limited.

    A Civil service test I did last month gave 40 mins for VRT with 15 questions

    And an hour for SJTS with 20 questions...


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