What do you think will be the minimum score required to succeed in the CBT considering that this year he number of candidates that will be invited to the second round will be 10 -11 times (compared to 2.5) the number of positions? My guess is 85%, so 51/60.
I think 80 %
They said that you have to reach "at least" 85% to be ready to sit the test. So my guess is you need to be better than that if you want to be picked.
Where's that information? I can't find it in the competition notice.
That´s almost a lottery fellas, stay tuned and cross fingers
You can never be sure of the exact threshold. It depends on so many factors (number of candidates, people attending the Assessment Centre, etc). The percentage of 85% simply refers to an estimation based on previous competitions, but in itself it is rather spontaneous. The threshold has ranged from a little less than 80% to a little more than 85%, in a number of competitions of which I can speak with certainty (and there are many competitions of which I do not know, where it could be a little outside these limits). They say 85%, so as not to give too many hopes.
However, these remarks concern previous competitions. With the new procedure (which does not, by the way, concern all competitions, published or to be published) , I predict that the threshold will not be more than 80% (although I think it will still be above 75%)
The threshold on every competition depends on a lot of factors. But as this topic started as a probability and possibility subject, I may say that I expect a relatively low threshold (maybe 70-75%) - and as a mathematician I enjoy doing that kind of calculations.
Given that last year there were 27531 applicants and 421 of those made it to the next phase, the top 1,5% was invited. In this case the threshold was 61,167, which can be translated as 76,4% (maximum was 80).
This year about 1500 applicants will be invited to the second phase, which is about the top 5%. 3 times more than last year's second phase. Moreover, people claim that abstract reasoning was quite hard and tests consisted of 20 questions of those.
Anyway, these are only probabilites. We can only know after the results are published. Good luck to everyone.
maximum was 70 last year (translated by 87%...)
anyway, i also think the threshold will be below 80% this time (let's hope even lower... )
OH, sorry then, I didn't take part last year, but I saw the old posts at AD 2014. What was the 61,167?
61.167 was the threshold from a max 70 possible points (corresponding to 20VR+10AR+40STJ)
Ah, ok then, I didn't know that numerical didn't count as well last year. Anyway, I still believe that threshold will be low, as with the new procedure 3 times more people will enter the second phase. My new guess though is about 75-80%= 54-55/70. Good luck again to everyone, we will all know after 5 weeks minimum.
I suppose that you mean 75-80% = 45-48/60
As ania13 correctly said, last year's scores were calculated out of 70 maximum points, whereas this year's out of 60 points. Let's wait (at least until August) and we'll see!