Clerical officer in the civil service 2026 campaign

How are people being notified of interviews? Call/email/notification via public jobs? Thanks!

Im so upset !! How did they make a mistake like this ? I dont even understand what they are saying

Yes I have also got this email. What a joke! Does this mean we all get lower OOMs now? Or is there a chance we move up the OOM considering this score has not been scored correctly. Very confused and frustrated now.

what did the email say exactly? Didn’t receive it.

was it only scenario mistakes?

Christ what a disaster

I dont understand it but it seems most people will go down not up. It did say we will know within 24 hours so hopefully they wont keep us waiting g

For those who didn't get the mail.

We are writing to you in relation to the above-mentioned competition and the ‘Stage 1 Result’ letter, which issued to you on the 1st April. 
 
Unfortunately, we have discovered an administrative error in relation to the assessment for this competition. This error resulted in candidates receiving an incorrect result and an incorrect order-of-merit ranking for their selected location.
 
Prior to this competition launching, publicjobs had updated and introduced new scenario questions which formed part of the Application Form.  However, when candidates completed the test, two of those six scenario questions had not updated as intended.
 
When candidate responses were scored, the scoring key applied was for the scenario questions included in the intended updated form, and not for two of the scenario questions to which candidates actually responded.   Consequently, scores applied to candidates’ responses were incorrect for two of the scenario questions, resulting in candidates receiving an incorrect result and ‘order of merit’ for their selected location.
 
publicjobs is actively working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Rescoring is underway, and candidates may notice their application status changing within their candidate portal while this rescoring is carried out.  
 
We understand that this will come as a disappointment for candidates who will receive a lower score/lower placing on the ‘order of merit’ and we apologise sincerely for this.  A quality review is being carried out to ensure that an error of this type cannot happen again.
 
You will receive an updated result for your selected location through your candidate portal in the next 24 hours. Once candidates have received their revised scores, publicjobs will be pleased to respond to queries through the dedicated mailbox, which will be provided together with your revised result.
 
publicjobs remains fully committed to upholding the highest standards of excellence, fairness, and integrity across all competitions and selection processes. This matter has been reported to the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the regulator for this competition.
 
We would like to once again sincerely apologise for this error and deeply regret any inconvenience caused. 
 
Yours sincerely

Recruitment and Selection

publicjobs

I dont know what to think

I presume we'll all be getting new Order Of Merit then, some going up and some going down. What a mess

Exact same thing happened to me, got about 100 points lower in the CO scenarios than I did in the TCO Scenarios despite using the same answers. Guess this explains it

My understanding is this:

They changed some of the scenarios but didn't update the marking scheme. So, some answers may have incorrectly been marked as right or wrong.

They will update scores according to the proper marking scheme and your OOM could go up or down depending how your scores were affected when using the incorrect marking scheme, whether positively or negatively.

I have been wondering what happened to those results

Literally just got it there, I can't be going any lower than I already am 😭

there was no testing for this, it was just the application