An Garda Síochána Recruitment 2025

I haven’t done mine yet. The only part I’m really worried about is the written exercise, can anyone give me an insight if it was difficult? Thanks and best of luck to everyone!

Just on the results, I got mine 16 days after the closing date last year.

Batch 1 2024

So don't expect results until middle of April.

My advice for the numerical one is that if you cant figure it out first time around…skip it and come back if you have time. I spent a little too long on a question and the last three I seen were actually ones I had practiced but my time ran out. I could have done 3 in the time I spent trying to resolve one

Seeing a lot of people fretting here over the numerical tests. As someone who has done very well on loads of these over the years (CO/EO/HEO in civil service exams) this is the advice I'd give.

Work as quickly and accurately as you can. Common sense and logical thinking generally does the job.

They're not overly difficult and they are generally made that you won't get them all answered. Usually you only need to reach a certain standard to pass and it doesn't matter how well you do above the pass standard for order of merit standings.

With regard to blind guessing, this does not work against you at all as there is no negative marking. So if you are near the end of time and you've a few left to get done it won't harm you at all guessing.

The main marks for order of merit will be based on the verbal reasoning and the report. You may be questioned on your report in the interview in the next stage also.

Best of luck.

I had a TV in my room, but it was switched off, but it was switched off. I don't imagine they'll be that fussy.

The webcam takes random shots of you to make sure its you thats doing the test and the audio is recording you to make sure you arent talking to somebody, your hand wasnt over your mouth and you werent staring at the tv or away from the screen like your attention was focused on it hence you have nothing to worry about.

did anyone find the verbal test a bit tricky at all

verbal grand, scenarios grand, questionnaire grand. have multiple pairs of jocks ready for the numerical 👍

The maths was the only one. The rest ok. The verbal was sometimes a bit. I left it did the rest then came back. Everything's crossed but i don't have high hopes🙉🙉

Just did the numerical test and scenario test just there. Scenarios were ok but I have a bad feeling about the numerical ones. I spent too long on some questions and didn't manage to even finish it. Actually kicking myself that I didn't follow my initial plan and pondered too long on questions as I think I could have gotten the last 3 but ran out of time.

Could be very tight and have the next few weeks to overthink and worry about it now!🤣😫

DDid anyone lose connection at any point? I did and closed everything out and opened back up and I was able to start where I left off. However, it said on the material sent out before hand that if this happens and you get asked to resume, decline it. I never got that? So I just continued on

surely is around that if they’re so desperate for people as they seem to be. I don’t know why they would turn away hundreds of people who did good in components relevant to being a guard like verbal and written etc but may have done below average in a maths test that has no relevance to the job.

The problem is they can only train 800 per year, there was 6700 applied this year and 6300 last year, so nearly 13, 000 applicants for 1600 places over the 2 years.

any advice on the written exam? what scenario did you get?. It's the last for me to complete but had to leave to drop everything to get to a family situation, all others were completed

Great to hear @pintofharp213 and best of luck. I just finished there too and found the verbal test to be trickier than I expected. The writing report wasn't too bad but I got a bit of a freight at the end as the timer went down to zero and the page glitched for a second and then gave me another minute, but the word count was removed so I just hope there was no technical fault with it😬

To everyone that is done, congrats that it's over and best of luck. To the people still doing them, best of luck and you got this!👊