Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2026

I answered all bar one, I skipped one and was hoping to get back to it at the end but ran out of time

I swore really loud and forgot I was been recorded 🤣I got pure thick , I might have gave the people on the other side a laugh. These campaigns are a joke. They use it as a easy way to filter people and even when u get an interview you could be 2 years waiting or never get called. I know someone no1 for a different campaign and there still waiting since before Christmas like how,.?you'd really want to just apply and totally forget about it and then outta the blew ya might get called

@Capyberna

Sorry to hear you struggled. I found the time quite tight as well.

Hopefully your other tests are enough to get you over the line for a decent OOM, and when the time comes, you can explain your errors in an interview. I think in an interview if you were able to acknowledge what you did wrong, and how you would answer differently given another chance, they'd pass you.

Are they actually recording sound? was your microphone on.?

Don't think so. Just making sure you are physically in front of the camera and somebody else said at some point, it's probably not even being reviewed by a natural human.

i doubt it are they going to go through 1000's of people - i had to let my dog in and out of the kitchen to the back during it - i hardly think theyre going to unless they suspect something

I’m doing it to tonight when the house is quiet. Definitely if you’re running out of time in future exams just guess the last few, you never know.

Yes, AP in father’s office said 9 only required, several of posters in these past threads over the years also, and the sample test has a threshold of 8 to score to pass.

You can’t exceed the time limit for EO!

The prompt is beside the test, its 15 seconds each for your work space, in front, behind, to your left to your right.

Completely lost track of time during the written assessment so task 2 was an absolute disaster and not sure i reached the limit on it! My own fault 😑 does anyone know is it an automatic fail if I don't reach the word count on the second task? If I did get the word count is it only assessed at the interview? Thanks all. The whole process is utterly draining 😴

I also unsure if I hit the word count for one of the parts. Booklet says minimum of 100 per part (200 total) or it’s disqualified but who knows!

Not entirely sure for the second part of your question! I imagine our scores on the two competencies of the interview will be dragged down though, so we’d not get the best OOM.

Thank you @Glitteringstar

Yes, the assessments were honestly grand and the practice tests were more challenging I think. It’s just the time management like you said.

I do feel Public Jobs make the whole ID verification and test procedure more complicated/stringent than it actually is.

Thank you to everyone on the thread for all being so supportive of each other. It’s not easy in terms of how slow the Civil Service moves and the uncertainty of getting places/doing well in the assessments, but having this support network of people from around the country of all backgrounds and stages of life has been very encouraging!

Same is happening me. Did you find any workaround?

Yeah I am

I can't get into exams either saying unsafe I'm using my personal laptop and I've already done numerical and SJ the other day no problem. I kinda sick of it now and because it's Sunday we won't get a response until 11am onwards. Doing them tomorrow and Tuesday isn't an option either I'm away with work.

I got the same error, you have to click on the more info drop down, then click continue to unsafe site. Works like normal then

I got sorted with the link then got an error with room scan but got in and got it done just abit of a pain wasted and hour trying to get into the exams.