Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2026

Personally, I heard that rumour from reading through the last 4 years of EO threads and Reddit. Several people over the years have said it. I know that people who have gone through the process and are already in will be able to clarify it.

No one has ever seem to question it..

I don’t trust Reddit as much but a few said it will depend on the bell curve how low the pass standard is.

I read through all the four years of EO threads and no one has ever said they failed the numerical. A lot found it tough though. Therefore the number to pass must be low or people are doing better than they think.

Of course, not everybody who participates in the board's threads are going to disclose how they got on with the tests.

I know a lot of people did fail the maths for the specialist and other competitions at other grades as the maths counted towards the OOM and the questions were very hard.

Planning to do the math exam either late tonight or tomorrow morning. So just hoping to God there's enough basic questions to get the first handful done in the time.

I failed the last one too so not sure where they got that info from. Think people are over thinking the whole thing, what will be will be and it’ll be about 6 weeks before you even get your results.

@Glitteringstar may I ask what you scored in the numerical test last time 2024 competition?

If you are just "passing" any of the tests you would want some very high scores in other tests. You need to have a high enough OOM to get called for interview.

Pass/Fail

Again, don't know if this is same for this panel but with previous panels, the qualifying/pass score for Numerical Reasoning was 390 out of 800 (49%). The score you got in the Numerical Reasoning was not included in your overall score which was used to assign you an OOM.

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I can’t remember I just know I failed it. It’s luck of the draw really, I don’t get worked up and just tackle it, have the advantage of being in the CS for 2 years so I felt I’d be better suited this time around.

@OlgaC I didnt see a 'Next' Button in the written test, just submit button, now thinking did i miss something?!

Is there anyway I can sit these tests for someone else? Or is it impossible with the camera setup?

Yeh wear a mask that looks exactly like them 🙄

Situational judgement I had no excellent response didn't think any of them meet the needs fully. Anyone else the same. SJ and Verbal done 2 to go .

Had a few excellent.. but it’s my first time doing this so not sure! I put a lot of “adequate”..

Thank you, that I will do 😁