I just wanted to post on here. I got my FSAC results back and was rejected because I did not smile enough, nod my head like a nodding dog in the group exercise, and I tried to put my point across too much, yet that's what the brief said to do, put your point across! The assessor in the interview pulled me up on standing up for my rights, and thought I should just roll over and take it! I've got quite a bitter taste about it tbh, I'm disabled with mobility problems, and I feel they led me on just to tick a box in their "equal opportunities" mantra to say they've adhered to it. I'm, not like some others who are already in jobs, this was a once in a lifetime shot for me, because no-one else wantsto know, not when you've got a disability and I'm 35! Over the hill!! The only reason I wasn't smiling enough and nodding my head was because I had no sleep the previous night at the hotel due to all night construction work going on right outside, I was involved in a near train crash on the Paddington line on the Sunday (*day before), everything that could go wrong did go wrong! The taxi meant to pick me up went to the wrong place, it all fell to pieces. I think anyone on here experiencing the same things would not feel like smiling a lot on the day? I honestly do not know what they are looking for, but it's not for the likes of me who's just been tossed back onto the garbage heap where I supposedly belong! Sorry to intrude on other’s happiness, but not everyone got through FSAC, not everyone has another job as a back up, or a nice holiday to go on, I have nothing, no money, no career, a dead end. As for applying again, what's the point. Forget it, it's not all about competentices, the whole thing is a trick to trip you up, as outlined in my FSAC report. If you want more details, post me, I'll give them to you, but don't believe all what you read what they say they want you to know...As for HoP, I put it down 1st, but got results same day, how come it was so quick?!! So, there is no April day for letting you know results. My advice? Make sure you have back up if you go in for fast stream, as with all the cutbacks in the Civil Service, who knows when anyone's going to get the boot. So, if you want it and not afraid of getting the boot and you have a back up just in case, then go for fast stream, otherwise, leave it, they pick you up on the slightest little thing and use it as an excuse to get rid to save themselves. Rant over. Bitter and disillusioned? You're darn right I am. I feel I've been led on a wild goose chase to end up nowhere. They don't want anyone who challenges things, they seem to want "nodding dogs" that you get in the backs of car windows kind of thing. No disrespect to anyone on here, but when you get told you don't nod or smile much, then that's what they seem to want! As for smiling, my experience is, if you even so much as look at anyone, they say "what you looking at?" in a threatening tone. Smiling? Who the hell feels like smiling when they're knackered and stressed out. You have been warned, people...