New 2021 Assistant Principal in the Civil Service

Anyone from last year’s competition if online tests are by the same provider or have they changed this year?

Hi there, does anyone know if you should get a result from the situational judgement questions on the practice site please?

no it says on the SHL website: "Please note there is no feedback report provided after completion of this practice test."

Remembered my password, had an account from 2020 competition!

That's a lot to answer. I read on the booklet that you can pause and go back to it another time or even another day, not sure if that's the case. Don't really want to chance that.

Does any know the answer to this ? I was interested myself in knowing if for a question to be marked correct you have to have all 5 actions correctly ranked or are there partial marks awarded for individual correct rankings ?

Yes it is. I just finished the SJT today, and will tackle the other two tomorrow

Does anyone have any tips on answering the practice SJT? Even the one-question practice example in the pre-test booklet is causing me to be unsure.

I mean take Option (1) for example. I scored this as highly desirable as, although it was reputedly successfully run in the past, there is always room for improvement, right? However, another boss might consider it as undesirable - as it was well run in the past, you are wasting your time and should be networking etc.

Also, regarding workplace cultures, which vary from place to place and country to country, asking staff how I can improve could be seen as a weakness. Nevertheless, I view it personally as desirable. Also, the final option, networking would be seen as good but taking on an interdepartmental report might jeopradize work - desirable/undesirable??

How did ye rate them?

Does PAS give any idea on what they want from this exercise. I fail it all the time and never get any feed back.

Same here found both numerical and verbal difficult.

I am normally not too bothered the Numerical as I aim to do "just enough to pass" but I have my severe doubts this time around. Was spending way too long on certain questions, only to find that the answer I had come up with was not one of the options so felt like I lost a good few valuable minutes!

Funnily enough I actually found the numerical to be one of the easier one's I've done. Found I actually had enough time to do some calculations for all the questions, usually I'd be guessing the last few questions with a minute to spare. Maybe from doing so many of them at this stage I've just learned to manage my time a bit better.

Verbal was ok, I've always passed them so not worried from that point of view, although I'm never particularly high on the OOM so probably just a middling score.

The situational assesment is probably a bit of a lottery anyways, some are prob obvious how you rank them but there's many you could argue, so just have to hope I gave the answers they were looking for

Exactly the same happened to me on the Verbal. Felt I was doing alright at the start, then hit a wall with some really tough scenarios and suddenly lost all the time I had gained and ended up guessing the last few. Very annoyed at myself.

Yes, practice is available for numerical and verbal.

yes, each statement is numbered and there are 100 of them. Some situations may have 5-8 statements underneath.

I found both verbal and numerical tough. I was not expecting numerical to be so hard, it threw me out.

I will be pleasantly surprised if I passed all the tests.... as I do not hold much hope at this stage.

Best of luck to all.