2024 Assistant Principal in Civil Service

No my AP said I could use her office as she has a large screen but large screen to laptop would do the trick maybe plug in a mouse to make the experience better.

Thought they were much harder than any similar tests I've taken previously, Numerical was ok apart from time. Got stuck with one question in the middle which I tried a number of ways and kept getting an answer that wasn't there.

Verbal is a complete lottery. Hopefully did enough to scrape through on all three tests but not confident.

let me know if you pass

fair play to you. What got me was the last few questions I had to find the % increase between lots of different sectors from graphs and then calculate the monetary value of a set difference so was about 20 calculations so was time consuming so guessed a few!! All I need is to pass but they were meaty!

First time doing AP comp of any kind. Realised I had like 5 tabs still open on my browser for the whole tests - rte news, bus websites etc. Do they view your screen or only cameras/mics at the pauses to check for assistance/aid?

Thanks and best of luck all

Fair enough I must have missed that in the booklet, I found it very difficult to select in that manner. Even a practice in that same style would've been appreciated.

Found first few questions in numerical very easy but struggled after that! I see above the tests supposedly get harder the better you do so hopefully thats the case! Few absolute wild guesses by the end!

I did them this morning and holy cow they were all impossible. Normally I sail through the maths but several times I had to guess because my answers weren't there despite me doing the math 2-3 times. Best of luck to anyone who passes ye deserve the Ap

Im very interested in knowing how they score it. There's so many variables for them to consider such as you mentioned and also taking time into consideration.

They can detect quite a bit in the browser itself. If you were to switch tabs, they would know. I would assume this would disqualify you automatically.

Deadline has passed. Are we free to discuss the actual test now? I'm intrigued by those insistent there was a question incorrect!

I know APs who are thick as shite so hopefully that means they also passed those ridiculous numerical tests

Did verbal and SJT Monday and numerical yesterday. Numerical is always tricky and I took a long time but I got a good few right I think. Time will be a big issue so hopefully I pass anyway. Verbal 15 mins SHT about 30 mins. Both ok but verbal and SJT can trip you. Thank God it's done so I can forget about it.

I was waiting until after the deadline had passed. I did mine last weekend, and the instruction on the SJT test was that the test was timed and you had 25 mins to do the test. It didn't say that in the instruction booklet and when I queried it they said thanks for bringing it to their attention but the test wasn't timed. I find it astonishing that nobody previewed the instructions prior to the test being published for a competition this big. I believe they changed the instruction to a suggested 25 min, but last weekend the instruction was you had to complete it in 25 mins.. did anyone else come across that?

Deadline has passed. Are we free to discuss the actual test now? I'm intrigued by those insistent there was a question incorrect!

I'm guessing it was a question on company cars, employee contributions, tax rates. It gave a somewhat intimidating formula that was not possible to evaluate using the data in the table. However, the second half of the formula evaluated to zero based on info in the question (no employee contribution) and therefore could be ignored.

I did it today and this 25 minute instruction was still there