Garda Recruitment 2023/2024

@Alana123,

No email yet, hopefully the process will start soon!

Does anyone know if the final stage of Templemore has changed or not.. is it still 11 weeks in Templemore 8 weeks in station 2 weeks online and further 11 weeks back in Templemore?

I did it last year and there was no time limit but you were TIMED so the time it took you would affect your OOM🙈

Stage 1 assessment now live ! Very best of luck to all 🙌 hopefully 3rd time lucky

If anybody has the stones to do it, please let us know how you got on and what to expect, because this thing is keeping me up at night.

Just did it there! The Questionnaire and the verbal were completely fine , did those in the expected time to finish , but the maths 😵‍💫 genuinely took me an hour and a half , it’s maths that doesn’t look hard but can get tough , apparently it’s meant to take you 15/20 to complete and I’d be shocked if anyone completed it within 20 mins if they cared about getting the right answers

It could just be me being excruciatingly average at maths but almost all the questions are table and graph based , some questions could have used better wording imo. You’ll probably end up with the right answer eventually but you’ll be spending most of the time brain storming the workings of each question. Which is why the 15 mins expected time is absolute nonsense, that’s a minute per question

Would that have helped me with the maths ?

The other parts were grand , the Questionnaire should definitely be in and around 45 minutes like they said , no difficult questions , the first section is basically just you describing your self and basically giving yourself a profile , the second section they give you a bunch of scenarios and then options and you grade them from Good option to neutral to bad option. So that was grand like

the verbal reasoning took me a good 15 minutes maybe a bit less , in that section I’d recommend reading the text passage they give you properly like at least read it twice before answering the question and you should be grand there too

Hopefully 😵‍💫

stage 2 is in July so I’d assume they’d be back to us with results by early June

Can anybody tell me what the proctoring process is like? Do they ask to see your room before starting? and are they watching throughout the whole exam?

at the very start they give you 2 minute window to ask you to show your passport ID on the camera , then you have to do a 360 degree view of your room / environment around you. Then you press the submit button and that recording is sent to them.

doesn’t end there tho , before and after each test your camera is turned on and takes a recording of you for about 15 seconds , you also have to press the submit recording button for that aswell. Basically it’s turned on as soon as you press the start exam and as soon as you finish so they are able to catch anyone in frame. Now I’m not entirely sure if the camera is on during the entirety of each exam , i don’t think it is because the LED light on my laptop beside the camera isn’t turned on during the middle of the exam which tells me it might not be recording

That was the case last year with oom not considering the numerical, but not sure how they will do it this year as the structure of the stages are different now too

How long did the numerical part take you?

Was it mainly graphs for the numerical? The Career Services course said it would mainly be graphs this year. Terrified of opening it up, more nervous for this than I was the Leaving Cert

Ready to do this assessment, only snag I genuinely have a PC without a camera.

I presume there's no way to link up your phone camera ? Like you can do with zoom.

Yeah definitely makes sense, they seemed desperate to recruit people this year tho , massive amounts of social media campaigns and constant advertisements on the radio

Do we have to do all of the 3 assessments in one sitting?