Higher Executive Officer 2024

Spoke to a few people in my department applying for this and they found some of it quite difficult. Makes me feel better about my performance and it being possible that the curve might be quite low for progressing through the competition.

My laptop is now not working, I cannot figure out the issue, I’m guessing it’s water damage from my kids. I can use my sons’ PC with a webcam.

I don’t have access to the familiarisation material here, but does anyone know if the webcam is sufficient for the assessment?

thanks a million! Of course leaving it until the last minute as usual is never a good idea!!

Just done mine.

I went into it with the idea that I'd try focus on accuracy and let the speed just be whatever it is.

I found the verbal straight forward and finished it in surprisingly reasonable time... as in, under 20 mins.

I'd say I was a half hour on the numerical.

The first block of 5 questions was straight forward enough.

The second block of 5 questions was really tough. The numerical grid and the questions of it were doing my head in and I spent way too long at them.

Third block went quicker.... I guess the adaptive questions got easier as I spent so long on the second block 😄

Fug it, it's done now.

Good luck everyone!

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I got 9/15 if I had to guess, the same for verbal, time wise I spent a horrible 35 minutes on numbers and 13 minutes on the verb, I think if points get taken off for time that'll give me the boot out of this one.

Same here. Took well under 20 minutes for the verbal but definitely at least half an hour on the numerical. It wasn't intentional. I just sort of lost track of time trying to figure it out

I seen it in the familiarisation booklet😊 We will have results before the beginning of August. At least we won’t be waiting months like usual

Ok I done the tests yesterday and here is my feedback…

WHAT. THE. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL. WAS. THAT!!!

Unless I am going for a specialist maths or finance role, those question were COMPLETELY unsuitable for a general intake! If getting top marks in higher level Leaving Cert maths is a requirement say it. If you want an intake of HEO who a math wizz's fine, but say it! Don't expect people to try to remember formulas they haven't used in years. I don't know what PAS is expecting.

Pretty sure you can't. It either tells you in the familiarisation material or when you're reading through the test information before you take the test.

You can't skip I remember reading in the information. I believe as it's adaptive assessment your answer to the question determines the next question you get.

can’t go back - ye have to keep going once you’ve given your answer

Found the numerical incredibly difficult….not holding out much hope for a pass.

Similar experience for me in regards to the numerical. They got progressively harder so I'm hoping that means I was answering them correctly. Then again, progressively harder for me might have been easy for someone else, it's hard to tell. I did throw a guess at 2 because they were taking me too long to try to decipher what exactly I was supposed to do.

I would imagine we all got randomised verbal questions so it's hard to judge by someone else's comments on what they selected. For me, I had a mix of true, false and cannot say. Again, I might have gotten them all wrong 🤣

Yeah I found that on a couple, I was looking around the screen thinking I was missing some of the information. Overall I found the numerical really difficult and I normally do quite well on them.

Yes. Definitely. I gave feedback on it all, and I didn't mince words.

As bad as I found the numerical, I dread the presentation 😂 If I get that far😂

Those tests were bleeding brutal.

Well that was the square root of me granny's hole!! I didn't know I was applying to re-programme the James Webb telescope.

It's done now, the universe will decide 😂

Hello all,

Well everyone, what's done is done. there's no point in thinking about it now. I wish everyone very good luck. when are the result expected to come out? Does anyone know? I never red the booklet before l applied.

Thank you,

Booklet says before the beginning of August !!!

They also issued an error message saying they changed the minimum score for the tests from 20 to 34