Stage 2 Assessment ARL

[Business Bob]

Hi. Does anyone have any advice, hints, tips on preparing for the Stage 2 Assessment for Arrivia Rail London?

 

[Juliet Barvo]

Try not to hallucinate when You're staring at the Blinking Grey Square of Boredom.

Oh, and if you buy the practice program, don't don't don't whatever you do look at the clock whilst you're practicing (I know it feels like it'll never ever end) cos U won't get to look at a clock when U're doing the test proper and that'd drive you crazy. Yes, the blinking grey square of Boredom is psychologically painful.

Not that I know if ARL use that Vigilance Test, but I'd be surprised if they don't.

Then you might have the look at a picture of a road scene for 1 second and then answer a few questions on it. The practice materials they sent you are good practice.

Then they might ask you to do the two-handed coordination test: two joysticks, one goes up/down, the other goes left/right, as you get the cursor around the shape as fast as possible without going outside the shape; THERE MUST BE AN ARCADE GAME WHICH HAS THESE CONTROLS, for practice?

Then they might get you to do an MML, do a search for MML, there's lots on it in this forum, and be prepared to be repeatedly asked "and how did it make you feel?".

Not that I know anything about Day 2 ARL London Tests.

How did that make you feel?

 

[DD87]

Just wondering, When did you have your test? How soon did they get back to you? Anxiously waiting

 

[Gooner18]

So you will be going to the OPC office in Watford , there Will be fewer people at this one ( I had 6 on my day 2).
You will do a mixture of tests ( sorry don’t know the names for the tests ) some paper based and some on a computer, as put above , you will do the old stare at the blinking grey square test , you have to push a button as quickly as you can when it changes colour.
You will also do a search exercise where you have a photo pop up on the screen for a few seconds , you will then have 5-6 options to chose how many items you saw i.e;

Car
Motorbike
Traffic lights
Pedestrian
Shop front etc

I think you get 5 separate photos.

Another test is the hand ( using both hands ) , eye co ordination test where you will have to draw a line around a set pattern trying to keep your line with in the set pattern , for this you will have two joy sticks , one will just control up and down movement, the other left to right movement. If you draw outside the pattern you get a warning noise , you need to move it back in as quick as possible.

Another test is the VSE , I personally found this the hardest , it’s broke down into 3 sections ;
First part you watch a dot( simulating a train) making it way round a track, as soon as it skips a part , or maybe two dots appear you push a button.
Second part, you will have a series of shapes , if these shapes match you pick( note they don’t have to be next to each other) , No fault button , if they don’t match pick , fault.

For example

* +

^ *

+ ^

See the 3 shapes match , so this is a no fault

Then you have to do both together, the train going around the track is your primary task.

Unlike day 1 you will get told your results as you go along , if you don’t pass a test you go home.
Survive all the tests , it’s then time for your MMI.
Apart from that it’s not to bad lol

 

[Business Bob]

Just wondering, When did you have your test? How soon did they get back to you? Anxiously waiting

I had my Stage 1 on 9th Oct and had invite to Stage 2 (28th Nov) on the 12th Oct, 3 days later.

 

[Business Bob]

So you will be going to the OPC office in Watford , there Will be fewer people at this one ( I had 6 on my day 2).
You will do a mixture of tests ( sorry don’t know the names for the tests ) some paper based and some on a computer, as put above , you will do the old stare at the blinking grey square test , you have to push a button as quickly as you can when it changes colour.
You will also do a search exercise where you have a photo pop up on the screen for a few seconds , you will then have 5-6 options to chose how many items you saw i.e;

Car
Motorbike
Traffic lights
Pedestrian
Shop front etc

I think you get 5 separate photos.

Another test is the hand ( using both hands ) , eye co ordination test where you will have to draw a line around a set pattern trying to keep your line with in the set pattern , for this you will have two joy sticks , one will just control up and down movement, the other left to right movement. If you draw outside the pattern you get a warning noise , you need to move it back in as quick as possible.

Another test is the VSE , I personally found this the hardest , it’s broke down into 3 sections ;
First part you watch a dot( simulating a train) making it way round a track, as soon as it skips a part , or maybe two dots appear you push a button.
Second part, you will have a series of shapes , if these shapes match you pick( note they don’t have to be next to each other) , No fault button , if they don’t match pick , fault.

For example

* +

^ *

+ ^

See the 3 shapes match , so this is a no fault

Then you have to do both together, the train going around the track is your primary task.

Unlike day 1 you will get told your results as you go along , if you don’t pass a test you go home.
Survive all the tests , it’s then time for your MMI.
Apart from that it’s not to bad lol

BLIMEY sounds brutal! Some seem ok but I guess I know what to expect. Thanks

 

[Business Bob]

Hi all, thanks for the advice, been offered the position today!

 

[tempuser]

Congratulations Greene4181. Lucky you. When do you start?

Sat first rounds of assessments on Monday and was told to expect results between 7 - 10 days later.

What was the order of tests at Watford? And did you have a choice of start times? Also, is the test with the different coloured buttons still used? Sorry lots of Qs. I'm excited for you.