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Higher Executive Officer 2024

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    #422
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Same as you guys.

    Verbal was fine (Or least I thought and hope so)

    The numerical…That was ridiculous! Took me about 25 minutes to do it and majority of it was guess work. As someone said above, unless this is for a finance or accountant role, I did not get the point of that at all.

    Hope for the best for all of us



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    #423
    lucat
    Registered Users Posts: 377 ✭✭lucat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122389321#Comment_122389321

    Info was missing from most tables and charts for me.



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    #424
    furrybones
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭furrybones


    I was away until tonight and will have to do the tests in the morning .. not ideal but this is the hand I've been dealt. Just a quick question please..

    Can we skip questions and go back to them at the end? Or is it a case of once you move on you're stuck with what you've selected?

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts"



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    #425
    Christmaschris
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Christmaschris


    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.



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    #426
    lucat
    Registered Users Posts: 377 ✭✭lucat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122390010#Comment_122390010

    Unfortunately you can't. You're stuck with your selection.



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    #427
    Mr lebowski
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭Mr lebowski


    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.



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    #428
    Inmate2020
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Inmate2020


    let’s just say I’ll be chalking this one down to experience 🙈



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    #429
    Pickysue
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭Pickysue


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



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    #430
    gestappo
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭gestappo


    Well that was a 💩show.

    Numerical was a complete disaster. Very demoralising tbh.



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    #431
    kittyc2018
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭kittyc2018


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



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    #432
    EduKate
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭EduKate


    Numerical was fine for me, just took longer than expected. They were definitely harder than the Aon/Cut-e tests used in the 2023 EO competition

    I found verbal more difficult. I probably answered 'can't say' too many times.

    Post edited by EduKate on


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    #433
    furrybones
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭furrybones


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122390985#Comment_122390985

    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 🤣

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts"



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    #434
    PooAtPauls
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭PooAtPauls


    Did anyone else find the info wasn't very clear?



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    #435
    Christmaschris
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Christmaschris


    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.



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    #436
    PooAtPauls
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭PooAtPauls


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122391245#Comment_122391245

    As a few have said, numerical is usually my strongest and I was stumped by a few. Felt like I was missing data



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    #437
    furrybones
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭furrybones


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122391160#Comment_122391160

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

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts"



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    #438
    furrybones
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭furrybones


    Now that that's all over, when do we expect to get results? 🤣

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts"



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    #439
    prin2023
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭prin2023


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



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    #440
    prin2023
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭prin2023


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122391481#Comment_122391481

    Start of August ..



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    #441
    ShrimpTech39
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭ShrimpTech39
    Nell


    Those tests were bleeding brutal.



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    #442
    lucat
    Registered Users Posts: 377 ✭✭lucat


    I don't know wtf they were thinking giving us (or anyone) numerical tests like those. The blurry images, the absence of data labelling, the nonsensical questions, the redundant information, the over reliance on estimation regardless of the type of answers available, the list goes on. Not to mention that fact that "estimating" data is a huge no-no in the real civil service! It's the public sector version of "creative" accounting.

    What farce, and I think it's a shocking disrespect to us as candidates.



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    #443
    Ahem123
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Ahem123


    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 😂



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    #444
    gestappo
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭gestappo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122391468#Comment_122391468

    Did anyone send their feedback to PAS?



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    #445
    2016claire
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭2016claire


    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,



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    #446
    blondie007
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭blondie007


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392510#Comment_122392510

    😁that comment made me laugh out loud !!!!



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    #447
    blondie007
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭blondie007


    Booklet says before the beginning of August !!!



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    #448
    furrybones
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭furrybones


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392510#Comment_122392510

    Best laugh I've had all day…. was badly needed. 🤣

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts"



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    #449
    skidmarkoner
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭skidmarkoner


    Well considering that used sova that allready know the results but it'll take 2-4 weeks for them to click the button that says publish



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    #450
    Dubjane
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Dubjane


    It's to allow for any complaints to be checked out



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    #451
    Dubjane
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Dubjane


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122389091#Comment_122389091

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



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