2020 Executive Officer Civil Service

Dublintigger

Connected99 wrote: »

Yes verbal 1st and then numerical
Once you click on the link you received on your message board from PAS
Just follow the instructions
It is pretty straight forward IMO/in my experience

Thank you 😊

Madra Maith

blondeonblonde wrote: »

Just finished the test there. Numerical test was tricky! Did anyone else have trouble with the room scan? I kept my I'd showing for too long & expected a prompt to scan the room. Only ended up getting 3 quarters of the way around... Hopefully won't be a disqualification...

Yeah, I didn't realise that you had to pan your screen after showing ID. I expected onscreen prompt so I had to close it and go back into link again to do it

Didn't enjoy the numerical either. Hard to say how it went.

Dublintigger

Madra Maith wrote: »

Yeah, I didn't realise that you had to pan your screen after showing ID. I expected onscreen prompt so I had to close it and go back into link again to do it

Didn't enjoy the numerical either. Hard to say how it went.

How long do you show your ID for before you scan the room?

La Bamba

Like what others have said, numerical was a lot tougher than expected! But lets wait in hope and find out as its impossible to know how it went !

Anyone know when we may hear about this?

blondeonblonde

blondeonblonde wrote: »

Just finished the test there. Numerical test was tricky! Did anyone else have trouble with the room scan? I kept my I'd showing for too long & expected a prompt to scan the room. Only ended up getting 3 quarters of the way around... Hopefully won't be a disqualification...

i did the scan around and put my id up close to the screen for the 2nd and 3rd video - i didnt like that you couldnt re do the videos..

AngryLips

Just finished mine. I have no idea how that went. I thought there was a lot of ambiguity in both the verbal and numerical tests where they left stuff open to interpretation. I was worried about my verbal performance because I didn't find the questions getting noticeably harder consecutively (for example the reading passages didn't increase in length etc, which is what I expected it would do if I was scoring well). There were two sections where I was required to do authentication but I wasn't sure if I needed to re-present my ID and scan the room again for these. I did so anyway, just in case, but thinking back on it now - I was sitting in a corner of the room and I didn't scan 360 the second and third time because it was just corner walls the other side. Relieved it's over and done with anyway. The questions were very vague, that's my only overriding impression.

AngryLips

AngryLips wrote: »

Just finished mine. I have no idea how that went. I thought there was a lot of ambiguity in both the verbal and numerical tests where they left stuff open to interpretation. I was worried about my verbal performance because I didn't find the questions getting noticeably harder consecutively (for example the reading passages didn't increase in length etc, which is what I expected it would do if I was scoring well). There were two sections where I was required to do authentication but I wasn't sure if I needed to re-present my ID and scan the room again for these. I did so anyway, just in case, but thinking back on it now - I was sitting in a corner of the room and I didn't scan 360 the second and third time because it was just corner walls the other side. Relieved it's over and done with anyway. The questions were very vague, that's my only overriding impression.

i had that issue with the verbal as some couldve been cannot say or false...its very vague

redmgar

Are you supposed to scan the room between the sections?

redmgar

redmgar wrote: »

Are you supposed to scan the room between the sections?

i did it for all three videos

Autumn01

Anyone else having problems with camera/scanning the room?I had just finished the verbal and cannot get on to the next part as “Hardware Access Denied” is coming up and it won’t let me move on.I’m very annoyed

job seeker

Autumn01 wrote: »

Anyone else having problems with camera/scanning the room?I had just finished the verbal and cannot get on to the next part as “Hardware Access Denied” is coming up and it won’t let me move on.I’m very annoyed

From looking at the posts here, it doesn't seem like anyone else experienced that issue. I havn't done it myself yet, so I can't advise. What are you using for the test??

gestappo

AngryLips wrote: »

Just finished mine. I have no idea how that went. I thought there was a lot of ambiguity in both the verbal and numerical tests where they left stuff open to interpretation. I was worried about my verbal performance because I didn't find the questions getting noticeably harder consecutively (for example the reading passages didn't increase in length etc, which is what I expected it would do if I was scoring well). There were two sections where I was required to do authentication but I wasn't sure if I needed to re-present my ID and scan the room again for these. I did so anyway, just in case, but thinking back on it now - I was sitting in a corner of the room and I didn't scan 360 the second and third time because it was just corner walls the other side. Relieved it's over and done with anyway. The questions were very vague, that's my only overriding impression.

The info booklet said it was only the numerical part that is adaptive.

finla

Brooks Incalculable Blackboard wrote: »

i did it for all three videos

Oh no, I didn't! Well that's me finished for sure so. Gutted, having got through all these tests last year to fail for this! ☹

mollzer13

I just finished it there. I found the verbal to be much harder than I’d expected and I’m sure I want way over 15 mins for each section.
I’m not holding out much hope now.

Talks223

Is roughwork paper allowed?
How many questions was there?

Dalio

Yes paper allowed and 15 per exwm

Blarney_man

Talks223 wrote: »

Is roughwork paper allowed?
How many questions was there?

Yes, 15+15

StevenToast

I only scanned for the first video...i dont think there was a need to scan every time...they wont can you on that basis

newbraces

StevenToast wrote: »

I only scanned for the first video...i dont think there was a need to scan every time...they wont can you on that basis

Do you mean you didn’t upload the video X3?

StevenToast

newbraces wrote: »

Do you mean you didn’t upload the video X3?

I uploaded 3 videos but i only scanned the room in the 1st one

Green farmer

StevenToast wrote: »

I only scanned for the first video...i dont think there was a need to scan every time...they wont can you on that basis

I think you only scan when prompted?

bradley linemihler

just did it ..found the verbal vague and ended up guessing a good few of the numerical..gutted not hoping for much now..

CivilCybil

I only scanned the room for the first recording. The ones between verbal and numerical and the one at the end only said they were recording to verify it was you taking the test. There was no prompt or request to scan the room.
I don't think scanning the room was required more than the first time.

CiboC

I only scanned the room and showed id for the first time, when specifically requested to do so.

For the two subsequent videos it didn't give any instructions to pan the room or die id again so I just sat there looking pretty until it finished!

I'm 99.9% sure that there were no specific instructions for the last two recordings.

Madra Maith

CiboC wrote: »

I only scanned the room and showed id for the first time, when specifically requested to do so.

For the two subsequent videos it didn't give any instructions to pan the room or die id again so I just sat there looking pretty until it finished!

I'm 99.9% sure that there were no specific instructions for the last two recordings.

Ditto.

cyning

CiboC wrote: »

I only scanned the room and showed id for the first time, when specifically requested to do so.

For the two subsequent videos it didn't give any instructions to pan the room or die id again so I just sat there looking pretty until it finished!

I'm 99.9% sure that there were no specific instructions for the last two recordings.

No there was no requirement to show ids or rescan etc the 2/3rd time. If they wanted they should have asked?

Green farmer

cyning wrote: »

No there was no requirement to show ids or rescan etc the 2/3rd time. If they wanted they should have asked?

If you rescan the room without prompting, aren't you just adding to your overall time taken to complete test ?

cyning

Green farmer wrote: »

If you rescan the room without prompting, aren't you just adding to your overall time taken to complete test ?

No it records you for 30seconds but it doesn’t ask you to rescan the room... you can’t decide to scan.

gestappo

cyning wrote: »

No it records you for 30seconds but it doesn’t ask you to rescan the room... you can’t decide to scan.

What are we required to do for those 30 seconds? Can we still work away at the assessment or are we just sitting there, trying to not look awkward?

CivilCybil

gestappo wrote: »

What are we required to do for those 30 seconds? Can we still work away at the assessment or are we just sitting there, trying to not look awkward?

The latter

30 seconds of looking at the camera but not looking at the camera.
You can't do the assessment while it's recording.