Recruit prison officer 2022

Hey, has anyone bought the career services preparation course for stage one?

There doesn't seem to be as much interest on here anyway, unless people are just staying quiet about it. Havnt done the tests yet myself will do them before the weekend. I'd be interested to hear how people get on and what sort of format they were in. I'd imagine that the familiarisation material would be slightly easier than the actual tests? But I'm not sure

I've heard that they don't actually expect you to finish all the questions, its massive time pressure. As there is no negative marking, answering what you can correctly then guessing remaining questions is the way to go. Is the maths all charts like the familiarisation or are there long paragraphs with text and numbers in them? Hopefully you did enough, if they are that difficult then you'd imagine the pass rate may be quite low

I finished the verbal and didn’t find it too bad tbh, I answered 19 of the 21 numerical and ran out of time.

Don't like the sound of that! Sounds very tough! Especially if you were preparing for a different format of questions. Could be put off straight away

That's very good going then. If you managed to get the majority of the 19 right then you should be safe enough

Not sure on this but obviously there has to be a certain amount that progress to stage 2. Judging by the difficulty level I'd guess the pass mark would be quite low. Either that or they havnt set the pass mark yet and maybe wait on all results and get an average and set the pass mark somewhere in the middle. This is just speculation, I just cant see how they would expect massive scores in numerical when they set the questions like that.

Well lads how did ye get on in yer psychometric tests ?...

Hey there Stretch. I did it in 2020 and yeah was tough then. I'd say you will be grand and pass it allright

I found the numerical to be less difficult than expected. And for this reason I couldn't concentrate on each question because I was expecting the next set to be more difficult. I went with career services, and while their initial material wasnt anything like the actual tests to begin with, they did sent extra material when the familiarisation was released. This extra material was very like the actual tests, and some of them were even harder than the actual test. If you had practise at answering some of these then the test would be less daunting. Having said that, it still took alot of time to figure out what they were asking for and where the info was. I'd be impressed by the people who answered more than half correctly without guessing a few. And cant imagine anyone answered every question. But I could be wrong

The original package wasnt. But when the familiarisation material was released career services sent out extra practice questions. These extra questions were very similar to the actual test.

If I was any good at maths I'd be able to calculate how many questions we needed to answer right to score 34 😂

Hopefully we get our results this week

I'm glad to know that I'm not alone on this journey. This test was the biggest handicap I've ever faced. to be honest english is not my first language, i had a lot of difficulties reading quickly to understand what they wrote and find the right answer

Going to be 4-6 weeks until results are issued. A bit ridiculous if you ask me, don't understand why it should take that long

For the guards its usually quicker or not? For stage one results?

Is there still people on a panel from the 2020 campaign does anyone know?

Does anyone know if there’s a group currently in the prison officer college? They plan on having 144 new recruits for prison service by end of 2022 but this is surely unrealistic with the pace that they go through stages at. Anyone know what stage 2 involves again? Can’t seem to find the 2022 information booklet online

Apparently they are crying out for staff and there was a slower than expected response to this recruitment competition. Hopefully this might mean this competition is moved along quicker than previous years. I still wouldn't be holding my breath though.

I do you know at the minute there is a group of recruits (about 20/30) in training at the Irish Prison Service Training College, they were out doing a walk around the prison about 3/4 months ago, and that there is another ground waiting to go in afterwards!