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PCA/Fitness test

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    #632
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    You find out on the day, you'll get a letter which you aren't allowed to open until you're off the premises.


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    #633
    coogie_boogie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭coogie_boogie


    Thanks


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    #634
    .S.
    Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭.S.


    Well done Bob and 19087 :-D


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    #635
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    .S. wrote: »
    Well done Bob and 19087 :-D

    Cheers!


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    #636
    Bob Law
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Bob Law


    Thanks all! Still a bit sore in the chest today, turns out I had a lung infection...ended up in A&E getting an xray! If I can get my hefty self round with a dose of lungitits you should all be ok!


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    #637
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    From what I've heard there are around 100 people doing PCA this week. With 100 having done it before that still leaves plenty of opportunity for the B graders etc, especially when you take into account the numbers that will fail each of the remaining stages!

    I also heard a rumor yesterday that only 40 people from the first batch passed the PCA!


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    #638
    tony1985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭tony1985


    19087 wrote: »
    From what I've heard there are around 100 people doing PCA this week. With 100 having done it before that still leaves plenty of opportunity for the B graders etc, especially when you take into account the numbers that will fail each of the remaining stages!

    I also heard a rumor yesterday that only 40 people from the first batch passed the PCA!

    I find it very hard to believe that the PCA has a 60% failure rate at this stage


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    #639
    gmck26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭gmck26


    19087 wrote: »
    From what I've heard there are around 100 people doing PCA this week. With 100 having done it before that still leaves plenty of opportunity for the B graders etc, especially when you take into account the numbers that will fail each of the remaining stages!

    I also heard a rumor yesterday that only 40 people from the first batch passed the PCA!

    That's incorrect as over 60 people completed medicals from first batch


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    #640
    charlie_six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭charlie_six


    I think approx 67 passed first set of pca's (goin on previous posters). However it is still good news for the B's as there should be plenty of spaces left out of the 378


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    #641
    221988
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭221988


    Newbie to this, wish I had found it earlier!! Congrats to everyone so far!!

    I'm up very very soon for pca. Bit concerned at the number of females failing it. This is passable isn't it?! Help!! 😩


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    #642
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    221988 wrote: »
    Newbie to this, wish I had found it earlier!! Congrats to everyone so far!!

    I'm up very very soon for pca. Bit concerned at the number of females failing it. This is passable isn't it?! Help!! 😩

    For sure it is, as long as you give it everything you've got!


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    #643
    221988
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭221988


    19087 wrote: »
    For sure it is, as long as you give it everything you've got!

    Thanks. I wasn't half as nervous for the ist or ac compared to what I am now!! I'll be devastated if it's bad news...as I'm sure everyone here would be!! Fingers and toes crossed for everyone, it's getting so close!


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    #644
    wanadrum
    Registered Users Posts: 684 ✭✭✭wanadrum


    19087 wrote: »
    From what I've heard there are around 100 people doing PCA this week. With 100 having done it before that still leaves plenty of opportunity for the B graders etc, especially when you take into account the numbers that will fail each of the remaining stages!

    I also heard a rumor yesterday that only 40 people from the first batch passed the PCA!

    They must all be boardies if that is true.


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    #645
    Bob Law
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Bob Law


    Good few failed our PCA on Monday. I's say 5 at least.


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    #646
    elspeth flash
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭elspeth flash


    Bob Law wrote: »
    Good few failed our PCA on Monday. I's say 5 at least.

    All females or were there any males who failed


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    #647
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    Bob Law wrote: »
    Good few failed our PCA on Monday. I's say 5 at least.

    I would say it could have been as many as half the group failed on Monday afternoon


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    #648
    Bob Law
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Bob Law


    Our morning session was 1/2 male 1/2 female pretty even and I know 1 girl who failed, another one failed as we left the centre and a few more in the carpark were distressed. Don't think any of the fellas failed.


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    #649
    Charlie211
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Charlie211


    How did you prepare night before pca bob law? Take it easy? Last min jog?


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    #650
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    I'm not Bob, but I'll answer anyway! I took several days off before mine - fresh legs all the way!


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    #651
    Bob Law
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Bob Law


    Night before? I had a glass of whiskey to calm my nerves a bit and had an early night. Last bit of physical exercise I took was on the Thursday so I would have fresh legs!


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    #652
    Ploddington Pea
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Ploddington Pea


    221988 wrote: »
    Thanks. I wasn't half as nervous for the ist or ac compared to what I am now!! I'll be devastated if it's bad news...as I'm sure everyone here would be!! Fingers and toes crossed for everyone, it's getting so close!

    If you cross your fingers and toes you'll fall over and fail.


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    #653
    pastiesupper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭pastiesupper


    I notice that people are able to say that they failed the push/pull or the circuit – do the letters in this batch give you your push/pull score and circuit time? The first batch only got a pass/fail indication.


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    #654
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    pastiesupper wrote: »
    I notice that people are able to say that they failed the push/pull or the circuit – do the letters in this batch give you your push/pull score and circuit time? The first batch only got a pass/fail indication.

    Certainly no such info for passers - the letter literally just says pass!


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    #655
    Lolita12345
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Lolita12345


    19087 wrote: »
    I would say it could have been as many as half the group failed on Monday afternoon

    I second that.. Most off us girls failed on Monday afternoon :(


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    #656
    Lac123
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Lac123


    Can anyone shed light as to why so many girls seem to be failing?


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    #657
    Mr.Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Mr.Peanut


    Not hitting enough kgs in the push pull I think


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    #658
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    It doesn't seem to be one part or the other, as I've seen girls saying they passed one but not the other. It's just quite a physically demanding test so with the same pass mark for male and female, it's fairly inevitable that more girls will fail.


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    #659
    Mr.Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Mr.Peanut


    I would guess that the psni will look at changing or removing the pca next recruitment as so many females not getting through


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    #660
    Lac123
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Lac123


    Thanks everyone for replying so quick! Surely if you have a good level of fitness and lift heavy enough weights you would pass though?


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    #661
    Lolita12345
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Lolita12345


    Lac123 wrote: »
    Thanks everyone for replying so quick! Surely if you have a good level of fitness and lift heavy enough weights you would pass though?

    I have trained heavily since Jan lifting heavy, I'm quite small so when doing the push/pull as it's a fixed height it seems trying to engage your core and to use your body weight is more difficult for smaller people. I felt the pressure around my arms and chest more which didn't give me enough core/body strength to push harder, I was pushing with my hands above chest level, where as taller people push with their hands at lower chest level which enables them to engage better! You'll be fine stay positive and just give it everything you've got!! Some girls have got through so use that as a positive thing when your doing it :) good luck!!


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