I'm just as surprised but they must have had people apply last year who are now on a course or have a date. I work on the railway and despite driving being a dream career, people do leave the job for whatever reason so they must be putting people through but maybe being really picky with the application?
I’m the same , is yours online psychometric tests by any chance ?
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Read #32 and you will get a good idea.
Is it the online test from OPC you have been sent to complete?
Guys dont get too hung up on all this profile status messages. It’s not concrete and certainly not something to stress over. Even after I started with the company, my status was still showing “under consideration“!
The Group Bourdon test is not an online test. That’s one of the first tests you complete if you get invited down to assessment centre in Glasgow. Read the pinned thread on this forum for that and you will learn everything you need to know about it.
Yet another update:
The email you received is not the phycometric test, the email is just part of the shortlisting process. Its 3 online questionnaires which are NOT timed and you can do them at your own pace unlike the actual phycometric which is times in control exam conditions. Their not too difficult and like I said their just for whittling down applications. Best of luck with them
Their is no real need for you to practise those 3 assessments they are very straightforward and not timed.
That would be my guess aswell. Smaller depots such as Kyle,Wick,Fort William and Mallaig were they may only be 1 position each are going to take much longer to whittle people down for compared to Edinburgh or Glasgow for example which may have 10 positions each.
I would guess that's the case as they probably won't start rejecting applications until after the online assessment. But I would take it ad a good thing that they want to keep your 2022 applications live, I would take that as your still in the running for it. Best of luck
Thank you
Hello. I have applied. I also applied in 2019, attended the assessment centre, passed in full with a Grade A (written in email) then an hour later was informed I was unsuccessful. Unsure as to why. Fingers crossed though
No worries like I said best of luck with it but you'll be fine
How did you find the assessment centre. I have been to one for my current role as a conductor but never a drivers assessment?Hello. I have applied. I also applied in 2019, attended the assessment centre, passed in full with a Grade A (written in email) then an hour later was informed I was unsuccessful. Unsure as to why. Fingers crossed though
I haven't completed the OPC online assessment for Scotrail but I have for other TOCs and that took about a week after the deadline for you to complete the assessment which most people on here seem to have been sent yesterday so anypoint after the 16th although it will be automated with a required standard so you'll have to meet that standard to be put through to shortlisting so it could be as soon as the 17th who knows.
Yeah that makes sense as the deadline says the 16th! Hopefully it comes through soon enough. Thanks for you help!
How did you find it?
It was ok to be honest, all the answers were very much focused on personal opinion so it was just making sure I didn’t second guess myself. Hopefully I picked the right answers but always that bit harder when you know there’s ’no correct answer’.
Ye it's very much looking at you as a person and even though it comes across that their "isn't a wrong answer" to a certain degree their is and it will just be if you matched those answers your through to the next round.
Hi, hope it went well
Did it actually allow you to go back on and still complete and submit because if it did you should be fine.
As soon as the computer restarted, I brought up Microsoft edge and clicked on “restore web pages”. Luckiky, this brought up the page where I left off. I was bricking it because I thought ‘that’s everything lost’. I was on the last assessment and last two questions too. I clicked finish and then it prompted me to log out. To which point, it wouldn’t let me log back in again. I hope it was all received correctly.
Did it prompt you to log out after your last assessment because it did that to me aswell. May be worth pinging them an email just to double check it has gone through OK just to be sure.
Thank you! I've been doing practice psychometric tests online and I need a lot of practice wholesale retail for 13 years makes you stupid on some things it seems haha
To be honest you don't really need to practice for the online one you were sent and it's pretty straightforward forward it's the big inperson phycometric that I would be researching and practicing for. This online one is more about your character and if you'd be a good fit for the job.
