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Looks like it crept back north sooner than thought, spotted 158701 sat in Inverness today, gotta be said it's looking very tidy for a 20odd year old train!
I heard back about my manager interview last week. Unfortunately didn't hit the standard but hopefully I'll do better should the opportunity arise again :) really want to thank you all for your help on here :)
I got....
Dear Scott,
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I've got mine on the 12th too in Aberdeen, interested to know what questions the others that have already been got asked, seems to be mixed, some say it's all TOC related questioning, some say it's Safety related and others say it's a set of 6 structured questions, heard some say it's around 2...
Same here mate, did my assessment on the 29th Jan, got a call the next day saying I'd passed, lass Sandra that called me said it'll be a good few weeks, waiting game I suppose :)
Sorry meant DMI (driver manager interview) then it's the stage 2 assessments, my assessment I just had was...
Group bourdon test
TRP (rules/gauges)
TEA-Occ
It's pretty much everything in the first booklet of the training materials they would have sent you (book with GBT in it), the assessors...
Assessment was tough in a few bits! Some of it I found easier though, had a call from scotrail today but missed the call cause I was at work, I'll probably have to wait till Monday now to find my fate! Got a number to call the lass directly but it was firing onto her voicemail! Total suspense...
Arrived in Glasgow tonight! looking forward to the big day tomorrow, look forward to meeting some of you there, Best of luck to all of you's sitting assessments :D
Seem to be getting similar results on paper so far, I marked one incorrect though but managed to correct it by crossing it out, sounds a bit silly but does that go down as marked incorrectly or not as I noticed and corrected it? Says on the prep materials that if you mark one incorrect you can...
Been going hell for leather for days on the GBT
I 'think' I'm doing okay! I've probably doubled my output in terms of amount of cells and halved my omissions/errors
Overall Statistics:
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Perception & Attention:
Targets Omitted ------------ 2
Marked Incorrect...
Got a train pass in the post today from first taking me from my front door to Glasgow for the assessment! Always had to make my own way to interviews before! Nice surprise!
I got an email and a call today as well, booked in for my assessment day on the 29th at 12pm, some of it looks really tough! Lots of prep, practice and I'll go in head first and do my best :)
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