Hi, this question has already been asked many times in this forum. At least you haven't asked ChatGPT, as other users had done :-D In my opinion, the EPSO reasoning exams for the Translators competition were (in general) much easier than other AD competitions I have recently done - I found them extremely easy to pass. The stumbling block is the Lenguage 1 questions and EU Training questions were OK to have a first approach, but nowhere near the real difficulty. You're asking us to compare EPSO with EU training questions in the VNAR tests, but honestly, with the huge bank of questions they have, it is difficult to compare. Many years ago I bought the biggest package of questions available here and the variety is enormous, some are ridiculously easy, others are extremely difficult. I have ended up selecting my favourite sets of questions to repeat when the exams are approaching. Sorry I can't help, but it's a lottery. In the end practice builds endurance and concentration. But whether the real thing will be more or less difficult, honestly, you can never know. 

VNAR in the Translation competition had never been so easy. Only 10 questions for verbals (instead of 20); 20 minutes for the abstract (instead of 10 minutes); no division in blocks (only a mininum is required globally, instead of requesting a minimum for numerical + abstract on one side and verbal on the other); points obtained in the VNAR don't count for global punctuation and you only need a pass. I had never seen it so easy, and I have been a candidate since EPSO was born. I don't think any other competition will have reasoning tests as favourable as these. The Generalist competition in October, for instance, might be much more difficult. If one doesn't pass the VNAR in this competition should know that they hadn't prepared well enough. All the other tests in this competition are difficult, but the VNAR, compared to usual standards, has been easy peasy for an AD competition.

* I meant the Generalist competition in July. The October one is for Assistants, I think (competitions for assistants are easier than for administrators, but there are typically more candidates).

Same experience for me: TestWe frozen right at the start. I called many many times the help line with no answer !!!  I chose to start again without knowing if I was allowed or not.

The layout of the whole page has to be completely rebuilt: if you scroll down you no longer see the timer, the calculator covers everything and you loose time to move it, the scratchpad needs many clicks to open, at every page you have to click on it again, the pdf document for the language L3 is very small if you don't put it in full screen,

I had the same problem too, I introduced a complaint to Epso.

Me too

Hi all, just reacting on the fact that I have also faced technical issues with Testwe today (which was not the case the first time though) : Testwe didn't automatically launch the exam at the first attempt as announced/expected. Yet, I have found the general system slower than before... not really reassuring! 

We have different difficulty settings for different profiles, Specialist (AD, AST) being the hardest. In our experience, the difficulty of our profiles is in line with their EPSO counterparts. Nevertheless, you can select an easier profile to practice (regardless of the package you purchased), such as CAST, and move on to the AD profile once you are more confident.

Hi, I did not have any issue yesterday. It might have been a common occurrence, but it was not a 'general' problem since some candidates were not affected. I was not affected either on the 6th of March and I complained then, and I will complain again, if these tests are invalidated. People who had a technical problem should be allowed to resit, but people who did not have any issue at all should be left alone. It is not fair we have to resit again if our exams were spotless. What a pain!