Garda Recruitment- The Waiting to Apply Room

Scouser wrote: »

deadlifts and squats

ladies love it

They love it..or they love you doing it

Scouser wrote: »

that was implied :cool:

Or maybe how you look cause you do it ?
Only messin !
Squats are great. Deadlifts too...you're dead right

AaronMul1 wrote: »

i find the sit ups to be my only problem, after 20 odd sit ups i lose all my pace

You'll do ok.. build it up. Take your time with them.
I'm thinking ill measure out 20meters and practice the bleep. Did it 2 years ago as part of pre season for football, think I did ok but no harm to give it a go and build endurance

Zadie10 wrote: »

Getting on ok - feel like I'm grand with the cardio & general fitness. My only fear is the push pull machine but working on that!! Wish my gym had one so I could see my progress on it

small progress is still progress i suppose yeah im gonna wait till im a bit fitter maybe 2 weeks 3 weeks and il try the test, never done one before so i need a bit of practice

Not sure it's relevant but if you're upskilling , consider getting a full driving licence. Even the basic Garda car course will require you to have a full driving licence before you can apply

AaronMul1 wrote: »

could you imagine getting to the medical though and failing? if i done that i'd never forgive myself for not preparing and you never know when they will do it! they could do the test before interview to weed out numbers so less to interview. Im just running around a local track, big hill in the middle of it so hoping that will strenghten up my legs

failing the medical and failing the physical are two different things altogether!

D Trent wrote: »

WWWwwhatt? you need a driving licence to drive a car? get out of town scouser.















There's a few members of AGS who have never held a driving licence yet drive the patrol car regularly

im very much aware of that

angelfire9 wrote: »

Yep you need to pass the medical first
I failed it
(Hearing test)

Requirements for medical should be on Garda website

they give a general run down in the candidate booklet, but dont give specifics

but plenty of room for interpretation by the Chief Medical Officer on so so much

Andrea345 wrote: »

Guys, for your information, specsavers have free hearing tests. I got the eye tests done last week and the hearing because I wanted to be sure before the medical.

What about the teeth check I don't have Caries but I do have a broken tooth on one side, it's not visible, there is some of the tooth there. How particular are they.

Can specsavers tell you whether your hearing is up to standard.Was thinking about going to them myself

But I don't want to do anything yet until we get our stage 1 results back. I'd hate to get my hopes up just for them to be dashed

Rothmans wrote: »

Can specsavers tell you whether your hearing is up to standard.Was thinking about going to them myself

But I don't want to do anything yet until we get our stage 1 results back. I'd hate to get my hopes up just for them to be dashed

Yup they give normal or higher then normal or less then normal. I had good hearing and there was a hell of a lot of people making nose in the shop, it was so distracting.

Andrea345 wrote: »

Yup they give normal or higher then normal or less then normal. I had good hearing and there was a hell of a lot of people making nose in the shop, it was so distracting.

I see, but do they know the standard required by the Guards?

Rothmans wrote: »

I see, but do they know the standard required by the Guards?

Well mine was twenty twenty but they would generally know, she said it was well above what they require so she had an idea. It's on this forum somewhere, from previous years so if you search then you can go in knowing what you have or do the test and find out afterwards. I think I read it myself and it was eighteen something. Anyone else know?


I think the hearing test is standard, if you have good hearing then your clear.

EDIT: oh another reason why I got the hearing test done was in case anything happened on the day and I failed, I could go back and say well it was because of this and maybe appeal. I got the optician to write me a letter stating my hearing and eyesight results.

Andrea345 wrote: »

Well mine was twenty twenty but they would generally know, she said it was well above what they require so she had an idea. It's on this forum somewhere, from previous years so if you search then you can go in knowing what you have or do the test and find out afterwards. I think I read it myself and it was eighteen something. Anyone else know?


I think the hearing test is standard, if you have good hearing then your clear.

EDIT: oh another reason why I got the hearing test done was in case anything happened on the day and I failed, I could go back and say well it was because of this and maybe appeal. I got specsavers to write me a letter stating my hearing and eyesight results.

Thanks, I'll defo need laser eye surgery. I checked before.
It's just the hearing I'd be worried about. After looking long and hard, its clear that the guards don't publish their minimum hearing standards. However, the Army do, so I'd reckon it'd be similar to that.