Civil Service Fast Stream 2015/16

Reply 420

jelly1000

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Original post by Champagne Supernova

An educated guess at least :wink:

Thanks for the info :yy:

No problem. If I'm accepted or rejected next week I'll let you know how long it took to hear back :smile:

Reply 421

Champagne Supernova

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Original post by jelly1000

No problem. If I'm accepted or rejected next week I'll let you know how long it took to hear back :smile:

Thank you and likewise. I completed each of the four tests yesterday so may well be playing a waiting game if my practice results are anything to go by. :dontknow:

e: And good luck!

Reply 422

jelly1000

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Original post by Champagne Supernova

Thank you and likewise. I completed each of the four tests yesterday so may well be playing a waiting game if my practice results are anything to go by. :dontknow:

e: And good luck!

And you too, hope you are pleasantly suprised.

Reply 423

Verbophobic

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Can anyone tell me if they only email about the test results during normal working hours (9-5 Monday-Friday?) wondering whether I can forget about it for the weekend!

Reply 424

wightwight

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Original post by Champagne Supernova

Hey! What's the usual turn around time if you're accepted/rejected immediately - presumably 'green' or 'red' banded?

For which section of the process?

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Reply 425

jelly1000

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Original post by wightwight

For which section of the process?

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We are talking about the selection tests- to find out if you got through to the e-tray

Reply 426

Nightwing_

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Original post by Verbophobic

Can anyone tell me if they only email about the test results during normal working hours (9-5 Monday-Friday?) wondering whether I can forget about it for the weekend!

I hear around midnight last Sunday, so don't think it is constricted to 9-5. But honestly I wouldn't waste time thinking about it, you'll hear when you hear :smile:

Reply 427

ColyTom

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How can I improve at numerical reasoning tests? At the moment I am only answering about half the questions in the time restraints.

Should I go back to revising the different things that are being tested or just continue taking practice tests?

I have to do my test by next Wednesday so I really want to improve.

Reply 428

tuutikki

Original post by ColyTom

How can I improve at numerical reasoning tests? At the moment I am only answering about half the questions in the time restraints.

Should I go back to revising the different things that are being tested or just continue taking practice tests?

I have to do my test by next Wednesday so I really want to improve.

I just kept practicing, while thinking about the most common calculations you see in the tests until I was (semi haha) confident in knowing what calculations I'd need to solve a particular type of problem, meaning I didn't spend too much time having to figure that out. I also tried to look at the possible answers to see if there's any that definitely couldn't be right but I'm not sure that helped much...

Reply 429

vbenguiat

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For those who have done the e-Tray, any good materials that you recommend for studying (besides the available one in the fast stream page)?

Reply 430

jelly1000

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Original post by Jm1984

I hear around midnight last Sunday, so don't think it is constricted to 9-5. But honestly I wouldn't waste time thinking about it, you'll hear when you hear :smile:

when did you take the tests?

Reply 431

LucyJane

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Original post by vbenguiat

For those who have done the e-Tray, any good materials that you recommend for studying (besides the available one in the fast stream page)?

There's a practice e-tray on cubiks website - http://www.cubiks.com/PRODUCTS/SIMULATIONEXERCISES/Pages/etray.aspx

I found doing it was useful to get a feel of how the e-tray works (I'd say it's easier than the practice e-tray available on the fast stream site so I'd do the cubiks one first and then the practice fast stream one!)

Reply 432

ColyTom

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I signed up for JobTestPrep. I just took a moderate test and got in the 10th percentile, then I took an advanced test and got in the 90th percentile so this is gonna take a lot of practice.

Reply 433

katezinha

Thanks for the practice e-tray examples, they're really useful!

Those of you who have already done the actual e-tray - how was the time divided between the preparation and the two exercises? Did you have to manage your time between the emails and the written exercise, or was this done for you? Also, do you know how many emails you are supposed to respond to?

Reply 434

Nightwing_

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Original post by jelly1000

when did you take the tests?

Hey, I'd done them spread out, but finished on Sunday evening, so heard about 6 hours later maybe. Don't worry if you don't hear early though could still be good news :smile:

Reply 435

jelly1000

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Original post by Jm1984

Hey, I'd done them spread out, but finished on Sunday evening, so heard about 6 hours later maybe. Don't worry if you don't hear early though could still be good news :smile:

ah that was quicker than even I thought possible. Confirms that I've been amber banded though, might still squeak in at the last moment or could be like last year where I got rejected at the last minute...

Reply 436

ProperBeau

Original post by bluesubmarine

Hi! I've applied for European and Generalist streams. Got a notification saying I'd passed the tests, but only the Generalist application page is allowing me to continue, whereas the EFS page still says 'awaiting results'.

I assume this means the EFS pass mark is either higher or yet to be set? Seems weird as there is a message saying that the EFS ones are those that have actually started to be marked. Anyone else experienced something like this?

I've applied for both of these streams too but had the opposite result - I've been able to continue with the EFS application, but Generalist is still awaiting results. Maybe it's to do with different pass marks within the tests (i.e. separate pass marks for verbal/numerical/competencies)? Or maybe it's based on preferences? I had the EFS as my first choice.

Reply 437

ColyTom

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I just got in the top 10% of one of my practice verbal reasoning tests, now I need to focus on raising my numerical reasoning.

Reply 438

thegetaway

Original post by ProperBeau

I've applied for both of these streams too but had the opposite result - I've been able to continue with the EFS application, but Generalist is still awaiting results. Maybe it's to do with different pass marks within the tests (i.e. separate pass marks for verbal/numerical/competencies)? Or maybe it's based on preferences? I had the EFS as my first choice.

What we established the year I applied - EFS has higher pass marks than GFS for verbal and numerical tests, and a lower pass mark for the competency test, or possibly they don't take this into account at all. The situational judgement is a bit of an unknown, but I assume they would take this into account as there is a situational judgement component of the first stage of the Concours process as well.

So, it's possible that you've scored very highly on the verbal and numerical tests but not so well on the competency, allowing you to progress with EFS but not GFS just yet.