Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2026

Yeah sure go ahead. See what happens.. what a ridiculous comment. This is the type of people we’re up against folks!

Have NR and VR out of the way. As someone else mentioned, the NR felt too easy.

VR was a bit trickier. I had plenty of time and went back through them after but got stuck on the final two. I just about had time to choose an answer for all them.

Identical twins? I imagine they use AI to monitor the camera so that might not even work ha

They aren’t the same for everyone. You’re also being recorded, you have to enter full screen mode, if you leave it the assessment it stops. You can’t copy and paste bar the written assessment using there own function. You’re the second person who mentions cheating, good luck with it!

2 possibly silly questions

i have only entered my i.d.now it says to enter by 5pm yesterday as it cant be gauranteed to be verified in time after that , am i dead in the water or should i carry on and hope its done ?

it says do not use a chromebook? is there a reason behind this? i do not own a pc or laptop

thanks

Is the written exercise the same question for everyone

I am currently in CS and failed the numerical 3 times before finally passing it in the 2024 comp - placed in top 50 and wasnt even called for interview. So whomever is saying only 9 to pass does not know for fact its all hearsay.

Currently top 5 after interview in internal EO and barely scraped the numerical in the internal comp last year. Still waiting to be placed.

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I got a C in ordinary maths for the Leaving in 2007 and haven't been bothered with numbers since.

I have a degree in journalism and a masters in translation. I've worked in both areas and even published a book.

That said, the maths was FAR easier than the verbal reasoning (linguistic comprehension) one.

Im awfullllll at it and passed the 2024 comp.

All done now, done the email query but felt the question itself was a bit crap, not much to work with which is reflected in my email reply, it wasn't great but the 2nd part I had a lot of info.

Any information on the written assessment , what does it consist of

Mine was an email complaint, task 1 is to write a reply between 100 and 300 words, read the email a few times, take notes and use it for your reply, look out for things like delayed responce or the CO giving poor info etc reply using sympathy and apologise for the delay, the assessment gives you an idea of what to do.

Task 2 is explaining what you done and why, again between 100-300 words.

There is probably a few different variants of the assessment so that was mine.

DO NOT CLICK SUBMIT FOR TASK 2! Use the same box then submit when done.