Garda recruitment 2019

Crafty_Veteran wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I am beginning to worry about the forthcoming Stage 1 aptitude tests. I have signed up for Career Services prep course and I have been doing practice tests everyday. Some of them seem easy and some of them I am really struggling with. Like in verbal / non verbal tests I could score 90% in one test and then I could struggle 50% in the next one. I think I need some advise or reassurance.

Does anyone have any experience with these and do they know if they are similar to the real thing?
Does anyone know what passing grade is for each test?
Is numeral included in the 2019 campaign?

Regards
Crafty

Some of the course ones are easy enough and some are hard its really just pot luck what comes up on the day. Are you doing any of the couses on site with them?

Oh wow, yes will definately be worth it Im doing it tomorrow, if there are any good tips/material I'll send them on to you!

EL11 wrote: »

For stage 1 last year I just used the examples they give you in the familiarisation material. They're not the best but they give you a rough idea of what the tests are like and I managed to get through it fine. For stage 2 then just to play it safe I bought the online career services course.

Just don't get too bogged down with them buddy. They're not as bad as you think and they become much harder when you over think them I found!

Best of luck!

Out of curiosity, are you a Garda now or still in the process?

EL11 wrote: »

Still technically in the process. Got offered a place in April but had to defer to finish college, so hoping for July now!

Nice! Being offered a place is brilliant! Best of luck!

EL11 wrote: »

Thank you, appreciate that! Best of luck with your application!

Second time lucky hopefully! Alas! I am trying to use it as a learning experience and take it in my stride! Thanks a million!

SquireD wrote: »

How did you get on at this? Did you find it beneficial?

Hey,

Yeah it was very good. A lot of common knowledge tips but i'll post what them here later as a few poeple have been asking.. nothing much we already know though but will def post them here when I'm home from work

SquireD wrote: »

Cool thanks! :cool: Gutted i didn't attend it but hopefully the online course does enough to cover whats needed!

Just had a few mins there so wrote up basically what I found useful .. It's prob nothing new to anyone but hopefully it'll help someone!! see below -

The style used – no one knows yet. Everyone who applied will be sent a ‘familiarisation email’ this week by public jobs and this will all be revealed then. They will let us know what type of questions, how many mins and how many questions etc.

OOM – basically this year the top 800 will be called in first, then the next 800 etc and so on.

If anyone has purchased the career services online course, they will update it with similar exams one / two days after we are sent the familiarisation email. For example, if the familiarisation email says there will be 25 verbal reasoning questions and 17 mins to complete, career services will upload several tests with the same amount of questions and minutes, same with logical reasoning.

Tips for verbal – 1 - he recommended to read passage once picking out significant key words. For example, words like ‘fish’ if the passage is about fish won’t be beneficial. However, words with a capital letter, a hyphen, a number, a place name or a person name we should be keeping an eye out for as if the statement asks for something on that info (which he says it most likely will), then we will have a rough idea as to where the word is such as top, middle or bottom. 2 – be aware for trick words. For example, the statement could say ‘a lot of people drive cars’, and the passage states ‘most of the people drive cars’, the answer would be cannot say as ‘a lot’ is subjective. ‘a lot’ to one person could be completely different to another. However, if the statement was ‘more than half of the people drive cars’, this would be true as ‘most’ (per the passage) means more than half. So just keep an eye out for words like that. Other words could be ‘may’ ‘cannot’ ‘can’ ‘more than half’ ‘almost half’ etc, if you see those words in the statement just read it carefully.

Tips for logical – I canty really explain any of the tips for this as it’s hard to show without the diagrams. However just brush up on clock movements, clockwise and anticlockwise, linear equations, numerical equations, bouncing and queue movements, if you have the basics in those you will be able to sort any of the problems really. There hard but looking at them a second time can show you something you didn’t see the first time (obviously only have the chance to look twice when in practice, not in the real tests)

Tips for job stimulation / personality - don’t give the wrong impression (motivations for the role) the tests where you have to say like 'this has to be part of my job ' or 'this can’t be part of my job' etc, he was saying like all of the answers were basically at the end of the information booklet, like working with the community etc but said like to choose 'I don’t mind weather this is part of my job or not' for the ones like 'having power' etc as he says that you don’t want to give off the wrong motivations for the role but still need to acknowledge that its part of the job. I know that that’s pretty straight forward but he said just to be careful what your picking as some things are obviously part of the job but there not the desirables of the job so don’t click 'this has to be part of the job' just because it is actually part of being a garda.

Garda IP do everything now from start to finish. I think that nearly everyone that goes to them gets in. They have a superintendent who used to actually do the interviews. My cousin is in Templemore now after he went to them.

daniel1390 wrote: »

When we getting Familiarisation materials

I dont no I thought we would have got something by now, hopefully sometime today.

daniel1390 wrote: »

Hi all, quick question regarding stage 1, so we have like a week to do the assessment questionnaire and then a week to do the aptitudes, is that how it works. I would imahine we woukd have Familiarisation material by now if tests apparently start Thursday

I'd say we will get the familiarisation material tomorrow

SquireD wrote: »

Still no e-mail???

You’ll be posting the same thing in a year from now if you’re successful in the first 4 stages haha

The aptitudes were meant to have started today!

sazxox wrote: »

I thought it was the 9th - 16th no?

That's correct