Please consider the fact that thousands of people apply to the trainee driver role, there is not much better and smoother one can do when they have such a high volume.
You must also consider that currently, as of last news, all current trainee classes are suspended, no psychometric testing is taking place nor DMI’s being held at Abellio, I am hoping everyday that will change soon as I am at the last stage, but as someone who has been waiting for almost 2 years, if you have no patience for waiting you’re gonna have a bad time, it’s a long road ahead.
As for the psychometric testing, they use the dots, clusters of 4 are highlighted, on paper.
The items you need to highlight for the ATAVT (flashing images) are the same 5 items each time, you only need to assess whether they are present in the image or not.
I’d personally imagine, you should not expect an invite to the psychometrics for at least a year though if you pass the sift.