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Thank you, them questions sound similar, if not the same as the ones I had. The assessment day is described by someone else pretty well in this thread. Not going to lie, it was brutal. A brief overview; 1st task - 5 tables of people - you do a group task where you work together with your...

I applied in early October, assessment day/DMI end of Oct, psychometrics and MMI late Nov, medical a week before Christmas, just working my notice period now which is long and I have a start date late April. So, in my experience things move super quickly if you are successful in the application...

No the SHL tests do not count as psychometrics. Get your application in!

Yes, it’s because you need a car licence. You are sometimes required to travel to other signal boxes in a company vehicle and obviously if you can’t drive a car you wouldn’t be able to do that.

Maybe it was your answers to the questions? You have to have a very specific safety mindset to be a train driver. I guess if your answers indicated that you aren’t safety focused they wouldn’t progress with you. Your last message also makes no sense, if your spelling and grammar is below par...

You asked a very similar, in depth question a few days ago wanting specifics on the tests. There is plenty of help on this forum in regards to the tests but the likelihood of people telling you what the passage is about and what questions they ask is very slim. It’s a competitive role to get and...

From what I know you are marked on speed and accuracy, so any errors - false marks or missed marks would count against you.

This was asked earlier on this page, under 35 and it’s a straight pass on the bmi, above 35 and if you don’t have any other issues you are usually good, if you have say high blood pressure and a bmi above 35 you can pretty much say goodbye 1763056149 I seem to remember it was a uniform gap; it...

I presume you haven’t searched this forum? There is a LOT of talk about this subject.

Complete basic month with no nights or Sundays expect around £3200 take home With a couple of Sundays and a handful of nights a month it’ll be about £4100 take home Add a couple of rest days and well, I’m sure you can work the rest out for yourself.

But their rule is 45 minutes at 8am on a Monday. That gives everyone a fair shot. If you apply in the school holidays you might stand more of a chance.

Do you think that maybe they are rejecting your applications because you live too far away? You provided 3 times - 45,47 and 51 I believe…the maximum time is 45 minutes, only 1 of your three is ‘just’ acceptable for a safety critical role.

I did mine last week, the interview was 3 scenario based questions. Good luck

There’s always overtime, it’s always threatened that it’ll go but it never does. Most areas though now cap you to working a maximum of 60 hours in a rolling week (so a max of 5/7 days) but you can still pick up a lot

I don’t know if Edinburgh do 12 hours. York do and a typical roster would look something like this SMTWTFS NNNN/// /DDD/// ////NNN ////DDD D///SSS //SS/// S is spare and you could be days or nights, week 6 would have a briefing day put into it a couple of times a year to get your hours up to...

Is this for York?

How do you know you only fell short on the 2 hand coordination? Did they tell you on the day? You can apply to any other TOC's now, and if their pass rate is lower than TPE's then you may stand a chance, for example Northerns enhanced rate is apparently lower than TPE's. You can certainly...

Yeah that’s fair enough, hopefully northerns enhanced mark is lower than TPE’s

It’s the first time I’ve sat them, I too wasn’t told I’d failed, it just said I’d been unsuccessful this time but they’d love to hear from me again? I’ve also emailed the OPC - I’m in for a couple of northern jobs and I know they use enhanced as well so don’t really know where that leaves me...

Just got a thanks but no thanks after sitting the paper tests last week. Genuinely shocked as I thought I did really well. Good luck to anyone who is still in and hasn't heard yet