Garda Recruitment 2022/2023

Query101 · 20-04-2022 4:44pm

Do all 3 assessments have to be done in the same sitting?

Jahcork · 20-04-2022 4:48pm

how did people who sat the tests get on so far? did ratios feature much? i’m feeling the numercial will be hard

Willie Stroker 1976 · 20-04-2022 8:47pm

Just finished, the numerical was much harder than the tonnes of prep I’d done on Career services. Not sure how I feel about my performance. Fingers crossed and best of luck to anyone yet to take it

hoops67 · 20-04-2022 9:24pm

I feel the exact same I done tonnes of prep but found it quite hard but glad there’s a few of us that feel the same way.

kaycon · 20-04-2022 9:29pm

Sat mine this evening , this is my second time having applied . I failed in 2018 on the maths by 1 point . Hopefully this time they’ll be a bit more lenient . Prepped with career services but felt that the prep material wasn’t enough for the questioning of the graphs . Best of luck to anyone that is still to take it .

GDA hopeful · 20-04-2022 10:26pm

I was thinking the same when I finished but remember what you told me the questions get harder the more you get correct.

NAE1996 · 21-04-2022 9:31am

Just did my assessment there so fingers crossed! I was the same as yourselves, did the career services course so all went well until numerical where after a few questions it got really hard and I had to throw in a few guesses. Best of luck to everyone!

PCO2019 · 21-04-2022 4:31pm

Hi folks,

I sat all three assessments this afternoon & I’m so nervous about how it went. The initial assessment (Simulation Exercises) we’re fine and there were no notable issues/tricks to make note of. The verbal assessments were ok but a small bit tricky and I feel I could have done much better but I was conscious of how fast I needed to be as it influences the overall score.

Now here’s the issue, I did the S1 course with career services and I was so confident with the numerical side of the house, I would have been aiming for a score of 13/15 at a minimum but 70% of the material that was asked today was not on the career service S1 course, however, overall career services course was brilliant but I’m abs fuming with the numerical tests because I’m decent at maths and the fact that time influences the overall score they were not fair.

Does anyone know how the scores are calculated ? As in is there a minimum threshold for the verbal and numerical ? So if there are 30 Questions between both assessments (40% = 12 correct answers) but obv I would have been aiming for 26/30 based on my career service performance in the lead up to the exam but after today only I’m nervous I have done awful overall! Anyone know how many candidates will be called forward to the next round if there are 800 Places ? 2k seem reasonable ? I’ll be mullin over this till the next round commences.

Willie Stroker 1976 · 21-04-2022 4:35pm

Welcome to the club mate, everything you’ve just said I feel the same and so do many others. I had very high standards set for myself prior to start the actual tests. I was smashing everything on career services, 90%+ on the tests there. Not half as confident now after the actual tests. Would also be interested though to see if anyone has any insight to how the scoring works.

PCO2019 · 21-04-2022 4:58pm

clairelouise95 · 21-04-2022 8:01pm

I'm nervous about completing this now with the comments. Maths wouldn't be my strong point. Hoping I get enough to get across the line

PCO2019 · 21-04-2022 8:06pm

Best of luck! Remember all the candidates before u have seemed to have found the numerical tests hard so don’t be disheartened if u find them hard.

Prodrive02 · 21-04-2022 9:10pm

I just sat mine there. In the last 2 campaigns I got to the interview stage and passed but due to a error the first time by myself and a error on behalf of PAS I didn't get through after the interview stages. After doing the assessments tonight I'm not overly confident about the numerical test but only time will tell so best of luck folks.

clairelouise95 · 21-04-2022 10:55pm

Wonder how long till we hear after we do the tests if we passed or not?

Willie Stroker 1976 · 21-04-2022 10:56pm

By Mid May it says

JustThisGuy · 22-04-2022 9:46am

If you don't mind me asking , if it's not personal too. What were the mistakes made by you & PAS? Just so if we make it that far, we don't make that mistake too.

bobbyss · 22-04-2022 9:51am

I have not read all the posts in this thread apologies in advance.

Are there freely accessible assessments that the gardai use so I could have a look and test myself at?

PCO2019 · 22-04-2022 10:17am

There was a link within the familiarisation booklet but it didn’t have much of a resemblance with the actual test. I used career services and off hand I think it was about €120. There should be a-lot of free stuff online.

Willie Stroker 1976 · 22-04-2022 10:31am

Message from public jobs there, turned out to be a reminder but my heart skipped a beat lol

roisinoharaa · 22-04-2022 10:53am

I’m working late tonight and planning on doing the assessments then, hardly look bad me sitting them in middle of the night ?🤣

22-04-2022 11:09am

Just finished mine there, although I know it’s designed to trick you up I thought the answers in the scenario section were far too similar and the numerical reasoning section some of the wording in the questions made zero sense, not feeling too confident even after doing GardaIP stage one course the last few weeks. Best of luck to anyone yet to do it

Mann2022 · 22-04-2022 12:46pm

Have just finished . I would be fairly good at maths but the last section was hard to understand a lot of it and what to do . Hope it went ok though .

leheaven · 22-04-2022 2:30pm

I am so nervous now after reading the comments. Maths was never my strong subject. I'm thinking I'll sit the exams over the weekend. Is there anything you guys would recommend I do before actually sitting them? This is my second time going for the guards, we didn't have a numerical test the last time. I made it to stage 4 and if I don't pass stage 1 this time around I will actually be devasted. :(

LukeMurph · 22-04-2022 2:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960815#Comment_118960815

Same here, I just carried out my tests after doing plenty of practice through carseerservices. The last 2 questions of the numerical reasoning completely had me lost. The rest of it went well I feel so hopefully its enough 🤞

Big Tom · 22-04-2022 2:55pm

I have been practicing SOVA type assessments online for Verbal and Numerical, as they mentioned in the booklet.

Can anyone say if the questions in Stage 1 exam are similar to that of the types that you find online with SOVA format.

Getting a bit panicky over the numerical too, any advice for what to look over would be greatly appreciated.

22-04-2022 3:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118961673#Comment_118961673

They are the same as the few practise material questions sent within the public jobs link but I found being under exam settings just made them seem that bit harder, as for the paid versions of sova tests online I’m not sure if they follow the same pattern

Mann2022 · 22-04-2022 4:31pm

I was too busy doing the career service one I paid for and didn’t see that sova link . After trying it and did fairly good . Typical but I still think it was a lot harder

reimay · 22-04-2022 6:39pm

Hey all, pretty nervous doing the first test after reading everyone’s comments!

I have done the practice tests but just wondering from the people that have done it what types of numerical testing it is in the questions? Percentages/ratios?

After doing it, does anyone think the career services / Garda IP courses were worth investing in for practice?

niall1996 · 22-04-2022 8:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118962478#Comment_118962478

I completed the assessment in full there yesterday. The assessment questionnaire is fine, verbal was tough, the numerical was grand for the first few questions and then it got super tough I don't know how in gods name they expect us to answer all the questions fast. You need to be putting a lot of hours into the practice questions but there was questions at the end of the numerical assessment that I was not prepared for nor did career services prepare us for. Good luck with your assessment!

niall1996 · 22-04-2022 8:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118960187#Comment_118960187

I was the exact same bud! 😂

Jahcork · 22-04-2022 9:14pm

just did the tests, numerical was hard. hopefully did enough to pass it

Physeter · 23-04-2022 12:38pm

Just finished there. Verbal and Numerical were surprisingly tough but mostly just took more time than I would of liked. Lots of layered questions in numerical.

PCO2019 · 23-04-2022 5:58pm

Does anyone know how the scores are calculated ? Does the PAS follow the norm when it comes to exams where 40% is deemed to be a Pass & overall would we need a score of 40% or 40% in both the numerical & verbal ? I know those scores are woeful but I think a lot of candidates seem to be have been caught with the numerical, I certainly was and I had even done the career services course. 40% of 15 would equate to 6 correct answers in each module.

Capricorn19 · 23-04-2022 6:21pm

Hey! This is my 3rd attempt at these exams (passed interviews etc twice) and that was the worst I have felt afterwards.. I found the verbal quite difficult the numerical was OK for the most part just the odd tricky questions.. not feeling the best after that.. these exams shouldn't define if you should be a guard or not...

Jahcork · 23-04-2022 6:37pm

what happened after you passed the interviews? did you fail the fitness ?

conorshortall11 · 23-04-2022 8:41pm

Just wondering for the graphs did anyone else not get the percentages up for them on the actual graph? You have to kinda half guess the exact %? Also for some reason I finished the numerical section in 30 minutes but it's saying it took me one hour just wondering should I be able to bring this up by emailing them so they could rectify this as the overall time taken contributes towards the final result. The numerical was extremely difficult😪😪😪

conorshortall11 · 23-04-2022 8:42pm

Does anyone know if there is a standard pass rate?

Fluffypatcat · 23-04-2022 9:21pm

Hey All. Reading the comments it looks likes alot feel the same way about the numerical especially, although I feel the verbal was tricky in one or two spots also. I'm actually so annoyed, I did both career services, Garda ip and I paid €50 for the numerical masterclass Garda ip held and they barely touched on the maths problems asked in the numerical bar a couple of percentages. Looks like they want rid of big numbers in the first stage.

roisinoharaa · 23-04-2022 11:33pm

I just done mine there.. I did the career services one.. **** me was the actual exam a different ball game?? I found the numerical super difficult. Jesus if I get passed this stage it will be a miracle. After spending weeks studying so hard and I feel so disheartened now, but anyways here’s to hoping🤞🏻 Anyone else find there was a few grammatical errors and like things worded so difficulty was awful for me. Best of luck to everyone else!!

Query101 · 24-04-2022 7:11am

Career service added a new Numerical exam in the same format as the official test.

Capricorn19 · 24-04-2022 7:19am

Feel same.. way some things were worded were difficult to understand what they were looking for 😕 I think majority here think same...

Tipp96 · 24-04-2022 9:53am

Do all 3 exams have to be done in one sitting?

Willie Stroker 1976 · 24-04-2022 10:24am

I think its recommended but you don’t have to take them all in one go

roisinoharaa · 24-04-2022 12:49pm

You’re probably better off doing them all in one go

roisinoharaa · 24-04-2022 12:56pm

Like I’m eafter doing 3 difficult years in college science and maths… and nothing was as complicated as that and hard to understand maths was impossible and I’ve done tough maths for the last 3 years , do you think I could understand our exam.. not a chance I dunno how anyone is meant to do that at all. I really do hope we all get on alright it’s clear we’ve all tried so hard and put a lot of effort in

Willie Stroker 1976 · 24-04-2022 2:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118969712#Comment_118969712

Hopefully it will be your last year doing numerical and verbal reasoning tests and ya wont be doing them for another 6/7 years if ya find these so easy. Best of luck with it

BorderHopper123 · 25-04-2022 7:59am

Hello all,

stupidly worked nights all weekend without realising the deadline was today.

the numeracy questions were abysmal. Having seen everyone’s comments here it would appear everyone feels the same.

for the verbal reasoning I found I answered false to almost everything 😂 god knows how it all went to be honest.

EoghanG23 · 25-04-2022 11:09am

having done the tests on Friday, I was very disappointed also with how the numerical test went compared to how well I had been doing with practice tests for the last number of weeks. I only hope that the pass qualifying standard for the numerical is lower than the other 2 tests given how many other people have had issues with it also. Didn't have too many issues with the verbal reasoning or the questionnaire

leheaven · 25-04-2022 1:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118968242#Comment_118968242

I feel exactly the same way. I don't think I could have done anymore to prepare for that numerical test. I expected to do a lot better, just hoping I got enough right to pass.

Willie Stroker 1976 · 25-04-2022 6:20pm

We’re all done now anyway so the waiting game begins😬 it said by Mid May so hopefully it could be sooner

Garda Recruitment 2022/2023

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