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    #122
    SilverPenney
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭SilverPenney


    Hello everyone. I just completed the Assessment Questionnaire, just wondering has anyone got the email for the Aptitude testing yet?


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    #123
    vardy98
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭vardy98


    SilverPenney wrote: »
    Hello everyone. I just completed the Assessment Questionnaire, just wondering has anyone got the email for the Aptitude testing yet?

    No you won't get that until probably the day before they are due to start on the 27th.


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    #124
    vardy98
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭vardy98


    Lads anyone have any idea how the questionnaire is marked, I was just wondering about that.


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    #125
    bowelofsoup
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭bowelofsoup


    I just completed the questionnaire. Fairly straightforward enough. Took me 40 minutes just answered each with my gut feeling think it was the best way to approach it


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    #126
    job seeker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭job seeker


    bowelofsoup wrote: »
    I just completed the questionnaire. Fairly straightforward enough. Took me 40 minutes just answered each with my gut feeling think it was the best way to approach it

    Definitely.. There really isn't any right/wrong answers..


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    #127
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    Aptitude tests on public jobs. (part B)


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    #128
    User2206
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭User2206


    CZ 453 wrote: »
    Aptitude tests on public jobs. (part B)

    I didn’t get mine yet.. probably be tomorrow for me!


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    #129
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    Tomorrow's date is the start date on it so you're probably right.


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    #130
    vardy98
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭vardy98


    Anyone do the aptitude tests yet guys?? I'm leaving mine till the middle of the week, dreading them.


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    #131
    LukeP26
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭LukeP26


    I did part b just now. Verbal was very straight forward, especially if you've done them before. Logical was very tough though, I'd definitely recommend practicing them online, I practiced the logical at home and on a course and always got about 90% right but this one was full of tough questions I felt.


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    #132
    LukeP26
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭LukeP26


    Does anyone know a good Irish course or where to learn Irish? I need to learn it for the test but all I can find is rosseta stone and 1 course in Dublin


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    #133
    P0dr1ck
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭P0dr1ck


    Ye verbal reasoning was pretty easy but logical was a **** to do, I completed the logical part with 3 seconds to go while on the verbal I had plenty of time left


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    #134
    Abbey127
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 127 ✭✭Abbey127


    LukeP26 wrote: »
    I did part b just now. Verbal was very straight forward, especially if you've done them before. Logical was very tough though, I'd definitely recommend practicing them online, I practiced the logical at home and on a course and always got about 90% right but this one was full of tough questions I felt.

    Hi did you do the career services course? If so was the logical the same type as what they are showing examples of?


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    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    Is the Kilroy online material similar to the material that appears in this stage?


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    #136
    RabbitHeart18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭RabbitHeart18


    Abbey127 wrote: »
    Hi did you do the career services course? If so was the logical the same type as what they are showing examples of?

    If you've been practising the logical at all, I think you'll manage these. I found them generally straightforward. I'm more confident on the logical reasoning, felt like some of the wording in the verbal was a bit tricky.


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    #137
    P1nkr0ses
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭P1nkr0ses


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    #138
    Abbey127
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 127 ✭✭Abbey127


    P1nkr0ses wrote: »
    Did them an hour ago. Did not have fun. I'm normally faster at the inductive reasoning but I pretty much ran out of time and had to start guessing at the end. I had 4 minutes left in the verbal reasoning. Not expecting to get a low OOM.

    I wouldn't mind once i got through to stage 2 might wait till Monday to do it haha


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    #139
    RabbitHeart18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭RabbitHeart18


    P1nkr0ses wrote: »
    Did them an hour ago. Did not have fun. I'm normally faster at the inductive reasoning but I pretty much ran out of time and had to start guessing at the end. I had 4 minutes left in the verbal reasoning. Not expecting to get a low OOM.

    I think I worked it out that to pass you could get 9 wrong for the verbal and 7 wrong in the logical. I don't think I've aced it, but hopefully done enough.


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    #140
    P0dr1ck
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭P0dr1ck


    RabbitHeart18 wrote: »
    P1nkr0ses wrote: »
    Did them an hour ago. Did not have fun. I'm normally faster at the inductive reasoning but I pretty much ran out of time and had to start guessing at the end. I had 4 minutes left in the verbal reasoning. Not expecting to get a low OOM.

    I think I worked it out that to pass you could get 9 wrong for the verbal and 7 wrong in the logical. I don't think I've aced it, but hopefully done enough.
    That sounds pretty good, hopefully it works out well for us all, good luck to all anyway


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    #141
    vardy98
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭vardy98


    I think I worked it out that to pass you could get 9 wrong for the verbal and 7 wrong in the logical. I don't think I've aced it, but hopefully done enough.[/quote]

    How did you work that out ????


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    #142
    thos23
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭thos23


    Did anyone else find tests extremely difficult? Ive done career services course and was scoring extremely well on the online tests (90 plus) but found the public jobs test extremely difficult and think got alot wrong. Even ran out of time on last 2 questions in both. Am I only person in this boat that found them v tough? Thanks


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    #143
    P1nkr0ses
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭P1nkr0ses


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    #144
    arainagusime
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭arainagusime


    The good thing about these tests is that they are scaled and you are compared with peers.


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    #145
    RabbitHeart18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭RabbitHeart18


    vardy98 wrote: »
    I think I worked it out that to pass you could get 9 wrong for the verbal and 7 wrong in the logical. I don't think I've aced it, but hopefully done enough.

    How did you work that out ????[/quote]

    I think I read somewhere that the pass rate is 70%. So that would be a score of 21/30 for the verbal and 17/24 for the logical. Don't have a source for the 70%, I'm sure I read it on here somewhere, but can't remember where 🙄


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    #146
    tomhenryford
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭tomhenryford


    Do we have to complete an Irish exam at any stage? I have my Leaving Cert and have an ordinary level B. I was always brutal at it and I would really struggle to have a conversation in it. I could probably make a good attempt at translating an Irish passage into English but absolutely not the other way around. Is the Leaving Cert taken as satisfactory competency or have we to prove it in another way?


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    #147
    vardy98
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭vardy98


    tomhenryford wrote: »
    Do we have to complete an Irish exam at any stage? I have my Leaving Cert and have an ordinary level B. I was always brutal at it and I would really struggle to have a conversation in it. I could probably make a good attempt at translating an Irish passage into English but absolutely not the other way around. Is the Leaving Cert taken as satisfactory competency or have we to prove it in another way?

    Once you have over a D3 in ordinary level Irish your fine.


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    #148
    mac1ntosh
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭mac1ntosh


    Just finished Part B there. I found both exams alright, but I normally get an average of 50-60% correct from practising! Hopefully done enough to pass anyways. Sooner we find out the better


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    #149
    job seeker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭job seeker


    I want to do them, but I'll be sh!tting a brick! :o


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    #150
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    Not sure if it's much good to anyone at this stage but Kilroy have an online course for 99 euro. You might with a push get access by late Monday if you paid online today. I suppose it'd be a way to calm the nerves before you do the aptitudes.


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    #151
    job seeker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭job seeker


    CZ 453 wrote: »
    Not sure if it's much good to anyone at this stage but Kilroy have an online course for 99 euro. You might with a push get access by late Monday if you paid online today. I suppose it'd be a way to calm the nerves before you do the aptitudes.
    I am not sure

    I used the career services myself. Just the online material for 100 euro. It prepared me some what.

    However, what caught me was that the practice material for the verbal reasoning supplied by the public jobs was different format to what I just done in the actual verbal reasoning test..

    But sure, such is life.. I don't really know how I done.


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