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Bank of England Graduate Development Program 2016/17

Anyone else applied?

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I applied for post graduate internship. I have completed online application and situation judgement test so far. Waiting for a response if I have made it to the next stage

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Fumi

I applied over a month ago but haven't heard anything yet. Has anyone been invited to the next stage?

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whyamianadult

Original post by Fumi

I applied over a month ago but haven't heard anything yet. Has anyone been invited to the next stage?

I found out I was unsuccessful yesterday!

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egm94

I just got asked to do some sort of analytical test, anyone know what this is?

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username1177050

Applied for the summer internship and been told I have been successful in SJT and will now be send a test (gold test)/analytical test by proversity. Trying to find out a bit more about it online

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anish_sharma94

Applied for the Graduate Development Programme and I've also been invited to complete a Gold Test (Analytical exercise) by Proversity. Anyone have any idea what the test is like?

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Fumi

Original post by whyamianadult

I found out I was unsuccessful yesterday!

Aw I'm sorry to hear. I'm not particularly great with SJT's so I was a little surprised to see that I have been invited to complete the next stage. Good luck with your other applications!

I have briefly looked online and upon registering it says there are 4 modules, two are assessed and each module will have a scenario with 15 MC questions to assess our analytical and reasoning skills? However I don't know exactly what this means...

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apt9

I'm also applying for the post-graduate internship and also got the invitation to the analytical test today.

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Historicity

If anybody takes the analytical gold test (not sure if that's the name, or different tests are given o different streams) and has any info about what it involves that would be great.

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gmd90

The golden tests gives you a situation, various information, which you will have to use to answer multiple choice questions. Quite interesting and not that complicated (at least for generalist stream). I suggest you just sit down and do it, it is not timed.

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username1177050

What a nightmare! Definitely not reaching the final stage, got loads wrong! Good luck to others in the process

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Historicity

Original post by neal95

What a nightmare! Definitely not reaching the final stage, got loads wrong! Good luck to others in the process

Don't feel too bad, I've just done the tests too and also had an absolute nightmare! Some of them were ridiculous and I'm not sure how you would possibly know the answer without knowing their internal policy (i.e. the welfare bit). Pretty bizarre scenario and pretty disappointing way to go out too.

Good luck to others!

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username1177050

Original post by Historicity

im still waiting for the SDIP from civil service and managed to get through to next round of lloyds of london so wouldnt be the end of the world for me but yeah i definitely think it was OTT that test!!

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Telley95

I know someone mentioned this, but double-checking: is the Analytical test timed/ time-recorded?

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Fumi

Original post by Telley95

I know someone mentioned this, but double-checking: is the Analytical test timed/ time-recorded?

I did the test earlier and it is not timed so no need to rush through the questions. The test is quite different from standard psychometric tests and I recommend at least an hour to complete the whole thing :smile:

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Telley95

Original post by Fumi

Thank you! Do you think its harder than other tests or about the same difficulty?

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amys123

Anyone heard back following their Gold analytical test yet?

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Fumi

Original post by Telley95

Thank you! Do you think its harder than other tests or about the same difficulty?

It's hard in that they give you a lot of information and most questions have a lot of options to choose. You need to pay attention to certain details and think about how to solve the main problem. I recommend you take advantage of the lack of time limit and carefully consider what the answers are. Good luck!

Original post by amys123

Anyone heard back following their Gold analytical test yet?