EPSO COMPETITIONS

Good afternoon,

Regarding the call for scientific research administrators AD7, the Written test part of the exam:

• Are there any examples or templates available to practice the answers?
• Do you know the different types of texts and their structures that you may be asked to write?

Thank you in advance!

Hello, 

how many options are there in the verbal reasoning test? 

Here in the training versions we have 4 options, but someone says that in the real test there are 5.

Thank you

I applied for a temporary AD5 vacancy that had a deadline of 21/01 and submitted my CV, motivation letter, and application form. I understand that they do not contact non-shortlisted candidates, but I was wondering how long it typically takes for hiring managers to send interview invitations to shortlisted applicants. Does it usually happen within 1-2 weeks, or does the process take longer?

Hello

I would like to ask if we will be able to sit for the translation and revision exams only after passing the CTB exams OR if we will sit for both exam sessions regardless of the CTB results? In other words, will we be notified that we have passed/failed the CTB exams and then accordingly be invited (or not) for the translation and revision exam?

Thank you

Ligeia

Bonjour,

Je me demandais si nous avions une estimation de la longueur des textes de référence pour les examens de traduction et révision de L2 vers L1?
Sauf erreur de ma part, nous savons que nous aurons 1h pour la traduction et 30 minutes pour la révision mais quid de la longueur (et/ou nombre de mots) des textes sources en L2 pour chacun de ces tests?
Merci

Hello everyone, 

am I the only one to be surprised and in fact enraged by the fact that instead of some meaningful word/pad version of the scratch pad, they come up with the idea that a post-it version of the comment window in a pdf file should be ok as a scratch pad? Like it takes 4-5 clicks before this post-it small window appear, with a lot of selection of random things around in the pdf. I wasted like 20% of precious time on dealing with it.

How can that be in 2025?

Or was there some normal scratch pad and not just a pdf file (right hand side of the screen).

Hello

I just noticed that the examination date has been published for the Greek translator position:

https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/job-opportunities/greek-language-transla...

Could you please confirm whether the exams will take place on March 6 and 13 as mentioned?

Thank you

Hi, everyone! I have 2 questions:

1) In my application, in the "Education" tab, I did not add my secondary education qualification, I just added my university degree (the one required for the application). Will this error disqualify me from the competition in your opinion? Can I upload the diploma of the secondary school as a document to compensate the error, even if I have not mentioned it in the application? 

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody has any tips on preparing the Revision, Translation and Language (L3) tests. EU Training provides the Language Comp test. EPSO has one example of the revision test but it is into gaellic so for me, impossible to understand. Also the maguage 3 test seems very simple ("how do you spell mushroom. champitngong, champinon, or champignon). It seems to easy. Are there no materials available anywhere?

Thanks everyone

Hi,

I have asked ChatGPT whether the verbal tests on exam simulation mode for AD-6 Financial Economics in EU Training are more or less challenging than the real questions in the exams at EPSO (generally), and the response I got was very discouraging, as according to it the texts are more extense and the distractors are less obvious. This shattered me as I was training with EU Training already for 2 months and I always get between 12 and 14 questions in the verbal right out of 20, which is not a very safe mark if I am going to be facing even more difficult exams.