Recruit prison officer 2022

Stretch1432 · 16-07-2022 06:07PM #1

There is a new recruitment campaign for the prison service.

Best of luck to all applying for it !

https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/local-news/861709/laois-minister-and-td-welcome-prison-recruitment.html

Process22 · 24-08-2022 06:55PM

Hey, has anyone bought the career services preparation course for stage one?

jimmythedivil · 19-09-2022 04:18PM

There doesn't seem to be as much interest in this year's RPO comp as in previous years.

Has anyone on here done the aptitude tests yet?

dub29 · 20-09-2022 08:13PM

There doesn't seem to be as much interest on here anyway, unless people are just staying quiet about it. Havnt done the tests yet myself will do them before the weekend. I'd be interested to hear how people get on and what sort of format they were in. I'd imagine that the familiarisation material would be slightly easier than the actual tests? But I'm not sure

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 11:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119516717#Comment_119516717

I bought the Kilroys college one and it was not the same as the actual test . I just did the test there now . The numerical assesment was exremly hard in my opinion and i had been studying and getting grinds for it

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 11:23AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119638239#Comment_119638239

Ye I did it and found the maths very hard to get a handle on .

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 11:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119643482#Comment_119643482

The familiarisation was easier

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 11:27AM

Usually there is a lot more people on here chatting about the assesments , hopefuly there isn't much applying for the competition . I did my test today the Vebal was tough but I managed to get through it but the maths was very hard . There was lots of detail in the question and it wasnt just simple multiplication and division. No way i passed . At the end i just started guessing the answers

Swabber21 · 22-09-2022 01:11PM

I did my tests today too. Numerical was definitely the hardest aspect. I found the numerical in this competition harder than the numerical in the Garda competition from this year. Definitely not as much interest in this campaign this year going off the amount of people in this thread, but that’s a good thing for us I suppose.

dub29 · 22-09-2022 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119649879#Comment_119649879

I've heard that they don't actually expect you to finish all the questions, its massive time pressure. As there is no negative marking, answering what you can correctly then guessing remaining questions is the way to go. Is the maths all charts like the familiarisation or are there long paragraphs with text and numbers in them? Hopefully you did enough, if they are that difficult then you'd imagine the pass rate may be quite low

dub29 · 22-09-2022 01:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650341#Comment_119650341

Did you manage to finish both verbal and numerical in the time given?

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 01:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650478#Comment_119650478

Its all long paragraphs with lots of info and then the numbers are all over the place its not like the way kilroy college prep questions like what percent of 150 is 30 or calculating vat on bills or like a and b share a price of 400 euro in the ratio 2:1 how much does a get ? these questions were very straightforward. In the actual test there was a lot of information and figures and I just wasnt prepared for it , a disaster very very hard.

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 01:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650341#Comment_119650341

It is a good thing but isnt there a certain score you need to get to go onto the next stage . It wont matter how many people are going for it if you dont get the minimum score

Swabber21 · 22-09-2022 01:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650496#Comment_119650496

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650478#Comment_119650478

I finished the verbal and didn’t find it too bad tbh, I answered 19 of the 21 numerical and ran out of time.

Swabber21 · 22-09-2022 02:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650540#Comment_119650540

Yes, going by what the information booklet said the people with the highest score will be placed on highest oom and it also mentioned that there’s no guarantee that everyone who passed will be brought forward to stage 2. It also mentioned that oom is calculated using scores from verbal and assessment questionnaire meaning that we only have to pass the numerical and it doesn’t contribute to our oom

dub29 · 22-09-2022 02:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650524#Comment_119650524

Don't like the sound of that! Sounds very tough! Especially if you were preparing for a different format of questions. Could be put off straight away

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 02:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650596#Comment_119650596

I wouldnt say i passed the numerical and the annoying is i put so much effort into it , also the way the questions were asked completely threw me . Id say il have to go apply again next year and just prepare better . Maybe the career services preparation is better but the kilroys college prep i would not recommend to anyone .

dub29 · 22-09-2022 02:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650573#Comment_119650573

That's very good going then. If you managed to get the majority of the 19 right then you should be safe enough

Swabber21 · 22-09-2022 02:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650631#Comment_119650631

I used the career services one and studied it almost daily over a month and did all the numerical tests and scored over 90% in most and found the actual test a millions times harder! Definitely wouldn’t recommend career services. Although career services had numerous different layouts to numerical test none was similar to the actual one and also like you said the layout of the questions with multiple different sets of numerbers in each passage throws you off big time. All we can do it hope for the best. We will probably be waiting a good while to hear back with results

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 02:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119650680#Comment_119650680

Ok thats good to know . Its my first time applying for rpo i was in the guards for a few years but wasnt for me . Have to say i found the Garda aptitude tests way easier . Ye lets just hope for the best

Swabber21 · 22-09-2022 06:29PM

Does anyone know if they have released the figures of how many people applied for prison service this year? They always seem to say the amount of people that apply for Garda or NAS competitions

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 08:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119651882#Comment_119651882

It was realeased for ags 2022 recruitment and over 11000 people applied, However it was not relesed for the prison service.

Stretch1432 · 22-09-2022 08:25PM

There was 21 questions in the numerical reasoning , would anyone know how many questions is needed to pass ? Would be a 40 or 50% pass ?

dub29 · 22-09-2022 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119652280#Comment_119652280

Not sure on this but obviously there has to be a certain amount that progress to stage 2. Judging by the difficulty level I'd guess the pass mark would be quite low. Either that or they havnt set the pass mark yet and maybe wait on all results and get an average and set the pass mark somewhere in the middle. This is just speculation, I just cant see how they would expect massive scores in numerical when they set the questions like that.

Swabber21 · 23-09-2022 10:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119652280#Comment_119652280

For AGS the pass mark was 34 but that did not say if it’s 34% but presumably it is. Very hard to tell but like the person above said it’s probably get the average score and set the pass mark a bit below that, again all speculation unfortunately

timmy2772 · 24-09-2022 09:54PM

Well lads how did ye get on in yer psychometric tests ?...

Stretch1432 · 24-09-2022 10:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119661085#Comment_119661085

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119654192#Comment_119654192

Hi there , the numerical was very hard . Did you do yours and if so how did you find it ?

timmy2772 · 24-09-2022 10:12PM

Hey there Stretch. I did it in 2020 and yeah was tough then. I'd say you will be grand and pass it allright

dub29 · 24-09-2022 10:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119661214#Comment_119661214

Are you still going from the 2020 campaign then, as in still on a panel? As far as I know the format was different this year in comparison with the last few recruitment drives.

dub29 · 24-09-2022 11:15PM

I found the numerical to be less difficult than expected. And for this reason I couldn't concentrate on each question because I was expecting the next set to be more difficult. I went with career services, and while their initial material wasnt anything like the actual tests to begin with, they did sent extra material when the familiarisation was released. This extra material was very like the actual tests, and some of them were even harder than the actual test. If you had practise at answering some of these then the test would be less daunting. Having said that, it still took alot of time to figure out what they were asking for and where the info was. I'd be impressed by the people who answered more than half correctly without guessing a few. And cant imagine anyone answered every question. But I could be wrong

Stretch1432 · 24-09-2022 11:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119661549#Comment_119661549

So are you saying some of the career services questions were similar??

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