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Was anyone else surprised by the first question of today's numerical test?

Like, if the data says that Spain produced 3104 tons of wheat, and the tex says it increased by 18% and that's ten times that of produced in Portugal, how exactly is the result supposed to be anywhere near 5100?

Subject says it all... 

I'm practising hard for next Wednesday's translator exam resit (thanks a lot for that, EPSO), and I'm wondering if the sample questions on EUTraining are harder, easier, or equal (in general) to the EPSO tests on the TestWe platform. 

I had been reasonably sure I had passed those tests the first time around, but I keep failing in the EUTraining questions. In particular the Verbal Reasoning questions often have answers that I disagree with. 

What have others' experiences been?

I am a 33 soon to be 34 year old from Italy, with a MSc in Geography and Geospatial Science. Unfortunately, I don´t have a lot of work experience for my age as I spent years chasing the goal of working for the UN. After managing to only land a one six months contract, and seeing the writing on the wall in the form of widespread massive global cuts across the entire sector, I came to terms with the fact that the goal will most likely never happen. After stints in the private sector, I currently work in academia in Belgium. However, I´m not really interested in academia as a career.

Hi,

I am having problems with the prerequisite requirement of Testwe although I am using the same pc and software than in the previous exam. I have changed nothing and have not installed anything new. It seems that it does not authorize my pc.

Anyone having problems as well?

Thank you

Hi,

I have on the reserve list on an AD6 competition. I wonder if I should prepare for the upcoming AD5 Generalist competition.
Be on a reserve list doesn't guaranty recruitment, so it is better to be on severals. But if I am already in AD6 reserve list, the recruiting services for AD5 will know that I prefer to go in AD6 position, they may not recruit me.

I think it is worth to prepare all competitions, keep applying, because nothing is done at this point. And still, it sounds quite inefficient to prepare for an AD5 competition.

Does anyone know what are the current rules for working in the Commission? Is one has worked already for 6 years as CA and TA can they still work or they have to pass a competition?

TIA

The tests done on the 6th March will be invalid and we have to repeat ALL those tests (FIVE in total: L1, CBT and L3) on the 14th May:

https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/news/set-defect-requires-retesting-multi...

Most of us followed the instructions and marked only one correct answer. If we marked two or more by mistake, we unmarked as necessary so that there would only be one left per question.

I have received the following message from EPSO:

It has come to EPSO’s attention that during the testing session of 6 March 2025, for the ongoing Translator competitions (EPSO/AD/414-421/24 – 8 languages), EPSO’s external contractor allowed a set-up defect in all the multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) tests. This led to a high number of candidates submitting more than one answer, despite the explicit mention in the instructions that there was only one correct answer.

As the title says, did the numerical reasoning test last week as part of the Taxation competition.

Scratchpad is to forget, opening mine there was nowhere to write on it, they were only showing some indications how to copy/paste text, why???

Calculator does not allow to memorize any previous calculation.

Without the possibility of not having some pen and paper in the applicant desk, it is impossible to have 10 out of 10.

Any that manages it, relied on pure luck to answer the most complex questions.

Hi, I will sit the Lawyer lingusit competition currently open for the EP/CION/COUNCIL cycle. I wanted to check whether there will be a package available for this competition including EU law questions similar to what had been the case for the EU law competition that had come out some years ago?