Opinion: Do more people pass Train Driver Psychometrics these days?

[Shunted]

When you apply to a different TOC it will go one of two ways:

• You tell them of your standard pass beforehand and they'll check for you to see if you meet their enhanced standard.
• You are invited to attend the assessment centre again and on the day the OPC staff or TOC/FOC staff will tell you which tests you need to sit again, it may just be a case of all of your assessments are at the correct scores but you need to sit an additional test such as the DFFT. Some TOCs "enhanced" standard my be standard passes on all the routine tests but they also do the DFFT, some may have higher score requirements on all elements including the MMI.

Ok Thankyou

 

[L401CJF]

I recently passed for a company that only requires standard pass but if I apply for a TOC / FOC which requires enhanced, how do I find out if my scores were good enough?

This happened to me a couple of years ago, i had informed the TOC of my pass, and got invited to an assessment day. The TOC didnt get back to me so i thought id try my luck and phone the OPC! I explained the situation, the guy on the phone took my NI number and the name of the TOC I was booked in with, said I had met their standards and i needn't attend the assessment center and he would also advice the TOC.

I got an email the following day from the TOC advising i needn't attend and was put through to the next stage. I was shocked the OPC even told me given some of the experiences on here

 

[Shunted]

This happened to me a couple of years ago, i had informed the TOC of my pass, and got invited to an assessment day. The TOC didnt get back to me so i thought id try my luck and phone the OPC! I explained the situation, the guy on the phone took my NI number and the name of the TOC I was booked in with, said I had met their standards and i needn't attend the assessment center and he would also advice the TOC.

I got an email the following day from the TOC advising i needn't attend and was put through to the next stage. I was shocked the OPC even told me given some of the experiences on here

Thanks for this reply, attending another assessment is always a risk as it supersedes any previous passes you have

 

[niggill617@gma]

Dangerous and lesser are very loaded words but there may be a correlation between lower test scores and Drivers who then have incidents.

I say 'may' because some of the numbers I've seen do lean that way but without some serious crunching I wouldn't be certain. There are too many factors that are involved in an incident to apportion something simple as a test score but the numbers do show a pattern.

I remember about 4/5 years ago I think, my former employer called in several operational newly qualified drivers for briefing. They had scored below some benchmark regards the tests. Did this requirement come from RSSB, presumably from some survey of incidents/test results? I remember some felt insulted.

 

[SVDW995]

I recently passed for a company that only requires standard pass but if I apply for a TOC / FOC which requires enhanced, how do I find out if my scores were good enough?

Northern’s assessment team checked my scores that had been uploaded to the RSSB database and confirmed whether I’d met their enhanced standard. I assume any TOC/FOC that has an enhanced requirement will be able to check if your scores meet their benchmark.