NEW 2018 Assistant Principal Officer Competition

KaneToad

sillysocks wrote: »

Got mine, disappointed! Didn’t make the cut, my verbal and numerical I think we’re ok but only 5 above the cut for the situational judgement. Overall was 8 away from the cut off but thought I had done better. Not to worry!

My mate just got his notification. He checked his account...shortlisting candidates who achieved a total score of 114 or higher and who have selected Dublin, Kildare or Meath.

FWIW, they scored 121.
Verb 69
Num 61
Sit J 52

Low 400's in rankings overall

gagsvonbuten

Would anyone in the top 100 please post what score they got, just for comparison purposes, I just crept over the line,115, and am ranked in the 700's

lapua20grain

Just got my text will log in when I get home

delricyo

never_mind wrote: »

i don't really get the wording... I reach the qualifying standard but then I got 96 when 114 was the cut off? I don't really understand that.. so I am qualified but I was 18 points off getting to second round? So I'm out of the comp so? I can't believe I passed the numerical. LOL.

There are 2 scores in the message. Your overall ranking and your score.
For some reason they are calling people by score this time around. Anyone scoring higher than 114 is going to stage 2

relax carry on

Passed but my worst result in all the years I've done these. 109 might as well be zero.

sillysocks

delricyo wrote: »

never_mind wrote: »

i don't really get the wording... I reach the qualifying standard but then I got 96 when 114 was the cut off? I don't really understand that.. so I am qualified but I was 18 points off getting to second round? So I'm out of the comp so? I can't believe I passed the numerical. LOL.

There are 2 scores in the message. Your overall ranking and your score.
For some reason they are calling people by score this time around. Anyone scoring higher than 114 is going to stage 2

Only if they selected Dublin Meath or Kildare!

seamie78

Scored 131 but only Dublin area being considered for now, it's a little bit disappointing but delighted I passed was worried about the maths

gmisk

It looks like i got through....no idea how, first time I have done one of these and the numerical was a nightmare for me, just as well I passed it.
Situational judgement 56 helped by looks of it.
I got 119....and the qualifying was 114....

oodles19

Do you think they'll shortlist anyone who reached the qualifying standard but were under 114 overall at a later stage or is anyone with a score under 114 done for altogether? It's not clear from the mail what the position is there..

PhoenixParker

If the last comp is anything to go by, there's a decent chance anyone who's scored over 80 and has Dublin down will be called forward in the next batch.

delricyo

Has anyone got their interdepartmental results yet?
Or is it just the Open results being released so far??

John Hutton

Did better than I expected on the verbal and numerical bit just scraped the situational and got an overall score of 96 so that's me gone...

Surprised because I thought I failed the numerical and did good.on the situational! Does anyone have any tips on the situational one?

AGC

oodles19 wrote: »

Do you think they'll shortlist anyone who reached the qualifying standard but were under 114 overall at a later stage or is anyone with a score under 114 done for altogether? It's not clear from the mail what the position is there..

They could go to a second batch but always hard to know.

Seems massive numbers went for it.

AGC

delricyo wrote: »

Has anyone got their interdepartmental results yet?
Or is it just the Open results being released so far??

Just open so far for me

1100010110

gagsvonbuten wrote: »

Would anyone in the top 100 please post what score they got, just for comparison purposes, I just crept over the line,115, and am ranked in the 700's

Total score 133, top 50

John Hutton

PhoenixParker wrote: »

If the last comp is anything to go by, there's a decent chance anyone who's scored over 80 and has Dublin down will be called forward in the next batch.

So you say that there's hope yet 😂

With my score of 96 I won't hold my breath but thanks for a glimmer of hope.

delricyo

John Hutton wrote: »

Did better than I expected on the verbal and numerical bit just scraped the situational and got an overall score of 96 so that's me gone...

Surprised because I thought I failed the numerical and did good.on the situational! Does anyone have any tips on the situational one?

Impossible to give advice on the situational. I suppose just "thinking like an AP" might be the only advice.

They may call a second batch for further down the rankings. But who knows how far they will go. And it could be a long long wait

Kilometres na gcopaleen

oodles19 wrote: »

Do you think they'll shortlist anyone who reached the qualifying standard but were under 114 overall at a later stage or is anyone with a score under 114 done for altogether? It's not clear from the mail what the position is there..

This is what I want to know as I was only a couple of points off the cut off.

My results for Verbal were abysmal and this is usually my strongest.
My result for Maths which of course doesn't count was significantly higher than the two others.

I am livid, to be honest, with myself and the whole cruel process.

gmisk

delricyo wrote: »

Has anyone got their interdepartmental results yet?
Or is it just the Open results being released so far??

The score I got was for the open, I applied for both.

tea and coffee

I got almost identical scores to the 2016 competition.
I wonder what they mean by Stage 2 shortlisting? I'm really not looking forward to doing those tests all over again

gmisk

1100010110 wrote: »

Total score 133, top 50

Wow that is excellent well done!

John Hutton

delricyo wrote: »

Impossible to give advice on the situational. I suppose just "thinking like an AP" might be the only advice.

They may call a second batch for further down the rankings. But who knows how far they will go. And it could be a long long wait

I've only been an EO for a year so Im in no rush, I applied for this with no expectations, really wanted the practice for any HEO or AO competition.

At least I know what to work on, and who knows, there may be multiple batches.

irumudikkilli

Disappointed with the Verbal score (should have focussed more on Verbal practice instead of math if the math basically counts to nothing) and did not make it to stage 2:

Verbal 54
Numerical 69
Situational 53

Verbal+Situational 107

PhoenixParker

I note that they don't give a top score for each category. My results are worse then usual too so it may be that the top scores aren't 80 as usual?

It looks, based on my own score that around 900-1000 are moving forward.

AGC

tea and coffee wrote: »

I got almost identical scores to the 2016 competition.
I wonder what they mean by Stage 2 shortlisting? I'm really not looking forward to doing those tests all over again

They are shortlisting off the application forms I think?

seamie78

gagsvonbuten wrote:

Would anyone in the top 100 please post what score they got, just for comparison purposes, I just crept over the line,115, and am ranked in the 700's

131

Kilometres na gcopaleen

Interdepartmental just landed but since qualifying score is the same, still don't make the cut.

The_Conductor

Damn - got 113 and they're calling everyone with 114 or higher to Stage 2..........
If only I'd answered one more question correctly........
Damn, damn, damn........
Also- got 66 in the numerical, and its not even counted
Bah humbug.

R777B

AGC wrote: »

They are shortlisting off the application forms I think?

Yep - message says 'It is intended to shortlist based on the information contained on the application forms'

Sir Ophiuchus

Made it through! I'm delighted.

I scored 124 and ranked around 250, for comparison. A few points either way are clearly moving people miles up and down the ranking.