Redundancy :o(

Enjoy the break Merle especially while the sun still shines! Good luck with the new job, I'm sure you'll hear from them soon. Perhaps you should make contact with them to see what's happening.

 

Abslutley Fantastic News Merl God Bless Yo and Congratulations

Enjoy the Brake You Deserve it Good Luck Good Helth and God Bless Ya Xx Well Done

 

Still no news from the new job

I received an email yesterday evening asking me to complete an online Verbal Reasoning Test. I didn't think that would present any problems as I like to think I have a good grasp of the English language.

Boy was I wrong! I scored 53% and 46% on the two practice tests I found, partly because of time constraints (30 questions in 19 minutes) and partly because I have a tendency to over-analyse things.

I did the 'proper' test this morning and ran out of time, so I missed a couple of questions. I really hope that I fared better on that than I did on the practice tests, otherwise the score will be very low.

The format is such that you have a paragraph of text, following which you have a statement which you need to answer as True, False or Cannot Answer. You have to base your response purely on what is contained within the text.

Here's a link to a practice test if anyone fancies a go (I'll start a separate thread for this too).

I used the test results rather than the percentile.

If anyone does it, please let me know how you get on. Hopefully you won't be as 'fick' as I am

 

Had a go at the quickie example (only 4 questions) but I did get 100%

I'll have a go at the full practice test later, should be interesting.

 

I didn't do the full practice test but I did the five examples.

In statement 1, which reads as follows:

The wrong answer is listed as correct. I.e. the right one is wrong, and a wrong one is right

I chose 'Can not say', which is the correct answer based on the information given, but the site has it down as wrong. This is because whoever set the question made an assumption, and what happens when we assume to much? It makes an ASS out of U and ME.

At no point in the passage does it say that the work is such that there is no specialism. A student with no experience may indeed be able to come in and do many of the run of the mill duties, helping a company to stay productive during the main holiday season, and depending on the type of work (not mentioned in the passage) that may be all that's needed, but we don't know that because it doesn't give us any clues.

 

As I recall, the Civil Service was stuffed to the brim with qualified idiots.
Jenny namaste
( ex. CS- unqualified)

 

Still no word re the vetting, except to say that they "hope" to have it completed by end of next week.

I have been offered an interim job starting Wednesday next week, so will be on a week's notice after that. Money's poor but it will keep the wolf from the door for a while.

 

Hiya merle.

It's always a worry when something hangs on just one thing. It does though sound like you've overcome the main obstacle, getting to this stage. Good luck

 

No news is "good" news in a way and I reckon they'll be pleased to know that you are not sitting idle in the meantime. Thinking of you Merle,
Jenny

 

First day of the interim job today. Could have done without the migraine and nausea!

Wish me luck, I feel so nervous.

 

I'm there too Merle - willing it to all go smoothly for you to. Take some nice oxygenating deeeeep breaths and breathe out slowly. Do 5 of those whilst you wait,
Jenny

 

Hope your day goes well Merle!! All the best!!