Interdepartmental HEO

Yeah same as. Would be my first time not having SJ at this point and I have done a few 😅 but sure PAS can do anything

It says in the familiarisation booklet that scores from both numerical and verbal will be used to determine place in order of merit.

that’s the first time I saw it that way. It’s normally pass numerical and then OOM based on verbal.

They seem to be doing it differently this time. Even the format of the application form has changed. They haven't mentioned the situational judgement as yet so one cant assume anything at this stage imo. In previous comps numerical wasnt part of ranking at all. You just had to pass.

How are they picking who gets offered a resit? Me and someone I know both did the tests, the exact same error for both of us, and we both emailed AON support after to report the fault. For some reason she's been offered a resit and I haven't. We thought she just got the message before I did but it's been an entire day since she got messaged about it now.

It'll surely only cause them headaches down the line where people can complain about their results not being good and how they should have been offered a resit and how unfair it is some people weren't. It just makes it seem a bit shady.

I had the same problem. I kept getting the no audio pop up throughout the test and I actually went into the microphone function 2 or 3 times to make sure it was on so would have wasted vital time in what was a very difficult test duration wise.

As for the test itself, I dont think the questions were particularly difficult. What was hard was getting an anywhere decent amount of them done in the allotted time. I ALWAYS finish the verbal reason with time to spare and I barely got half way through. Plus it said both tests were 15 minutes long but when you started them, they were 12 minutes long. The familiarisation booklet also said 15 minutes. The whole thing was a farce to be honest.

And no way should some people get to resist and not others. I'm 100% going to contact PAS about all of this in the morning. I think everyone should do the same and let them know what mess the tests were.

I concur 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe that was the situational judgement! :D

PAS have issued a response to the Pop-ups, check your messages.

Not doing the resit only had a minor issue with one pop up, going to take my chances with my original test, definitely feel I might do worse on a resit. Would absolutely second guess myself on some of the answers right or wrong.

I feel the same to be honest. Don’t want to risk all the second guessing and possibility of a worse result.

From people I’ve spoken to who have taken this wound of testing the general feed back is that aproximately half of the questions were answered so I’d be happy to feel I fell in line with that. Provided they are correct of course!

I had no problem with pop ups and was offered re-sit! Think I’m gonna leave well enough alone - really don’t want to tempt fate

I’m also torn about resitting as I don’t think I did well but don’t want to risk doing worse. I’d love to know if they will be using the same questions!

Where did you hear this??

That’s the resit window..