2018 Campaign

Ciano1997 wrote: »

I've e-mailed to asked to resist it. Hopefully they agree.. if not, looks like I'm out of the campaign

Hope all gets sorted mate, the only issue is, I think they’d only let you resit the test if it was a fault of their own.

Ciano1997

Ze0tech wrote: »

From memory there is a lot more than 5 questions. There are 2 sections. Situational judgment and verbal reasoning. It doesn't look good

I've e-mailed to asked to resist it. Hopefully they agree.. if not, looks like I'm out of the campaign

Ze0tech

Ciano1997 wrote: »

I just completed the IST . However, on the first section.. my laptop died and it took me a while to up & run it again.. when I logged back on. Apparently I was out of time.. I only answer like 5 questions !! the other two sections I smashed!! I was happy enough.. do you think I've a chance of passing

From memory there is a lot more than 5 questions. There are 2 sections. Situational judgment and verbal reasoning. It doesn't look good

Ciano1997

I just completed the IST . However, on the first section.. my laptop died and it took me a while to up & run it again.. when I logged back on. Apparently I was out of time.. I only answer like 5 questions !! the other two sections I smashed!! I was happy enough.. do you think I've a chance of passing

canuck_copper

Well that’s the IST done for me. Hard one to judge

Lockie101

BlueCop8790 wrote: »

Was the IST smoother this time round ? No lagging or freezing moving from one question to another ?

Felt pretty smooth and didn’t experience any problems or lag during my test anyway, cant speak for everyone though obviously

BlueCop8790 wrote: »

Decided to complete the IST today, now for the dreaded wait. Honestly it’s difficult to say how I’ve done, I know I got at least one wrong on the VRT as I seen the answer for it on the following question, also as another boardie said it’s hard as you can justify more than one answer on the SJT but it’s out of my hands now. Good luck to those still to do it!

It is a long wait but at least you have the IST done so you know you tried your best and there's nothing left to do until December.

E18 wrote: »

That's true! It's just the feeling of getting it out of the way, but I'd say at this rate i'm going it will prob be closer when the assessment closes.

In practice questions I have been doing it both ways, when I read the questions first and skim read for the answer it is def quicker but often I miss a sentence further down that tries to trick you or makes it then be a different answer if that makes sense, where as I pick up more info reading the whole thing and then looking at questions but this slows me down... the joys lol

What are we like! Roll on Next month.

You'll probably feel better just getting it over with. It takes it off your mind and instead you get to focus on the wait :'( but knowing that you tried.

BlueCop8790 wrote: »

Decided to complete the IST today, now for the dreaded wait. Honestly it’s difficult to say how I’ve done, I know I got at least one wrong on the VRT as I seen the answer for it on the following question, also as another boardie said it’s hard as you can justify more than one answer on the SJT but it’s out of my hands now. Good luck to those still to do it!

It is a long wait but at least you have the IST done so you know you tried your best and there's nothing left to do until December.

E18 wrote: »

That's true! It's just the feeling of getting it out of the way, but I'd say at this rate i'm going it will prob be closer when the assessment closes.

In practice questions I have been doing it both ways, when I read the questions first and skim read for the answer it is def quicker but often I miss a sentence further down that tries to trick you or makes it then be a different answer if that makes sense, where as I pick up more info reading the whole thing and then looking at questions but this slows me down... the joys lol

What are we like! Roll on Next month.

You'll probably feel better just getting it over with. It takes it off your mind and instead you get to focus on the wait :'( but knowing that you tried.

Thank you ! Yeah, I managed to get through the IST last year. I found it to be excatly the same format as last year.

BlueCop8790;108565730Decided to complete the IST today, now for the dreaded wait. Honestly it’s difficult to say how I’ve done, I know I got at least one wrong on the VRT as I seen the answer for it on the following question, also as another boardie said it’s hard as you can justify more than one answer on the SJT but it’s out of my hands now. Good luck to those still to do it!
Good Luck! you sat last campaigns too, didn't you? Was it pretty much the same style of IST?

Decided to complete the IST today, now for the dreaded wait. Honestly it’s difficult to say how I’ve done, I know I got at least one wrong on the VRT as I seen the answer for it on the following question, also as another boardie said it’s hard as you can justify more than one answer on the SJT but it’s out of my hands now. Good luck to those still to do it!

That's true! It's just the feeling of getting it out of the way, but I'd say at this rate i'm going it will prob be closer when the assessment closes.

In practice questions I have been doing it both ways, when I read the questions first and skim read for the answer it is def quicker but often I miss a sentence further down that tries to trick you or makes it then be a different answer if that makes sense, where as I pick up more info reading the whole thing and then looking at questions but this slows me down... the joys lol

What are we like! Roll on Next month.

E18 wrote: »

It's practicing the verbal reasoning that's holding me back from doing it at the minute, My head just doesn't seem to get the true false cannot tell. for eg when a passage says they must do etc... and the question is something like they try their best to .. I want to click true, but its automatically false as have to and try to are not the same... i'm ok with the logic when i have time to read the passage through at my own pace but under time constraints I speed read and I miss all those little key words that make the difference... Feel like the more practice I do the less I want to do the Ist! The sjt still isn't 100% but I can work those better than verbal reasoning...

Went to try it this morning and i've just said nope to myself again... maybe go for it in a few days.

I feel exactly the same! All we can do is practice and try and see where we're going wrong. Still a while to go till the 20th!

Aimforstars wrote: »

Thanks JaneDoe. My phone isn't displaying properly and has Chinese symbols instead of the regular so I can't quote.

The test was quick but actually harder than what I was expecting. I used my watch for timing. Hopefully I'm allowed to say this but my approach was actually different to what I was expecting myself to do; I was thinking that I would read the paragraphs then the questions but instead did it the other way around.

I was nervous which was strange because I don't regularly get nervous about things like that. I had a glass of water beside me and a quiet house but still was worried that I would have to go for a nervous pee.

The test said completed but I still wish we had the reassurance of an email confirmation.

I think I might give that a go and see if your approach helps. I'm sure you've done better than you think

E18 wrote: »

It's practicing the verbal reasoning that's holding me back from doing it at the minute, My head just doesn't seem to get the true false cannot tell. for eg when a passage says they must do etc... and the question is something like they try their best to .. I want to click true, but its automatically false as have to and try to are not the same... i'm ok with the logic when i have time to read the passage through at my own pace but under time constraints I speed read and I miss all those little key words that make the difference... Feel like the more practice I do the less I want to do the Ist! The sjt still isn't 100% but I can work those better than verbal reasoning...

Went to try it this morning and i've just said nope to myself again... maybe go for it in a few days.

I feel exactly the same! All we can do is practice and try and see where we're going wrong. Still a while to go till the 20th!

Thanks JaneDoe. My phone isn't displaying properly and has Chinese symbols instead of the regular so I can't quote.

The test was quick but actually harder than what I was expecting. I used my watch for timing. Hopefully I'm allowed to say this but my approach was actually different to what I was expecting myself to do; I was thinking that I would read the paragraphs then the questions but instead did it the other way around.

I was nervous which was strange because I don't regularly get nervous about things like that. I had a glass of water beside me and a quiet house but still was worried that I would have to go for a nervous pee.

The test said completed but I still wish we had the reassurance of an email confirmation.

It's practicing the verbal reasoning that's holding me back from doing it at the minute, My head just doesn't seem to get the true false cannot tell. for eg when a passage says they must do etc... and the question is something like they try their best to .. I want to click true, but its automatically false as have to and try to are not the same... i'm ok with the logic when i have time to read the passage through at my own pace but under time constraints I speed read and I miss all those little key words that make the difference... Feel like the more practice I do the less I want to do the Ist! The sjt still isn't 100% but I can work those better than verbal reasoning...

Went to try it this morning and i've just said nope to myself again... maybe go for it in a few days.

Aimforstars wrote: »

I think I'm going to do it today. I'm feeling quite nervous but whatever will be, will be.

Wishing you goodluck mate!

I think I'm going to do it today. I'm feeling quite nervous but whatever will be, will be.

Lockie101 wrote: »

Nothing that hasn’t already been said, take your time and read the questions and choose the best answer! Make sure to read each option thorougherly before jumping to conclusions

Was the IST smoother this time round ? No lagging or freezing moving from one question to another ?

Lockie101

Nothing that hasn’t already been said, take your time and read the questions and choose the best answer! Make sure to read each option thorougherly before jumping to conclusions

Lockie101 wrote: »

IST Completed once again, fingers crossed!

Any advice? I'm too scared lol

Lockie101

IST Completed once again, fingers crossed!

ZXC53

ML515 wrote: »

Top tip folks:

If you ever feel like you can justify more that one answer, remember, one is a better fit of the core competencies. Learn your competencies people. You aren’t looking for the “right” answer. You’re looking for the answer they want - best matching the competencies. I can’t stress this enough.

Helpful advice. Is there anywhere where the competencies are actually listed to read over?

Good Luck Djs1990!
I still haven't brought myself to do it yet.

djs1990

Well that's the IST done, now you're not meant to talk about it, so all I'll say is it's hard to know if you given the right answers for some, cause you could justify more than one of the answers :ermm:

djs1990