Public Sector, here I come!
Feb. 17th, 2006 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tommoWell, I sat the public sector exam yesterday morning, and it was, as predicted, rather simple. The only section I'm not sure I did well in was the "Clerical Speed and Accuracy." That's the one where you get a huge list of combinations of letters and numbers, and have to find and mark them off on your answer sheet, seeing how many you can do in 3 minutes. I did 61, which is okay I suppose. Anyway, even if I don't do so brilliantly in that part, it just means they probably won't opt to give me a repetitive clerical job, which is fine.
The maths was easy, although I heard a lot of people afterwards talking about how they found it to be the hardest section, so hopefully that'll work in my favour. Interestingly, the maths example practice questions (that we all got in the mail) were "What is 12 + 13?" and "What is 30 - 20?" These questions are obscenely easy, yes? So I thought it was strange that they'd give the indication that the questions are so very basic, and then have the easiest question being the multiplication of two 2-digit numbers. I mean, that's still easy, but certainly misleading. Strange.
The verbal reasoning and grammar sections were incredibly easy, too. To my annoyance, I realised later in the day that I'd answered the final grammar question wrong. I think I got everything else correct, though.
So, hopefully I'll be doing the crazy governemnt work thing soon. That'll be a hoot.
In other news, today I bought green seedless grapes, a copy of Dinner at Deviant's Palace (s/h for $4!) and Smog's A River Ain't too Much to Love. Hurrah for consumerism. Mmmm grapes.
The new albums of interest are slowly starting to trickle in, now that 2006 is more fully underway. Hopefully some new reviews shall be appearing soon.
The maths was easy, although I heard a lot of people afterwards talking about how they found it to be the hardest section, so hopefully that'll work in my favour. Interestingly, the maths example practice questions (that we all got in the mail) were "What is 12 + 13?" and "What is 30 - 20?" These questions are obscenely easy, yes? So I thought it was strange that they'd give the indication that the questions are so very basic, and then have the easiest question being the multiplication of two 2-digit numbers. I mean, that's still easy, but certainly misleading. Strange.
The verbal reasoning and grammar sections were incredibly easy, too. To my annoyance, I realised later in the day that I'd answered the final grammar question wrong. I think I got everything else correct, though.
So, hopefully I'll be doing the crazy governemnt work thing soon. That'll be a hoot.
In other news, today I bought green seedless grapes, a copy of Dinner at Deviant's Palace (s/h for $4!) and Smog's A River Ain't too Much to Love. Hurrah for consumerism. Mmmm grapes.
The new albums of interest are slowly starting to trickle in, now that 2006 is more fully underway. Hopefully some new reviews shall be appearing soon.
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Date: 2006-02-17 08:41 am (UTC)Last time I did it, however, I got a job at UWA between doing the test and forgetting to send the application in.
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 05:46 am (UTC)Do you remember, by any chance, what the grammar question you got wrong was? :)
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Date: 2006-02-20 12:42 am (UTC)Public Service
Date: 2006-02-27 02:48 am (UTC)Don't get comfortable in a low job, inertia is not your friend :)
But the Public Service attitude is pretty cool. They doublethink naturally that their work is vitally important, and also realise it is really quite the irrelevant papershuffling it is.
It's neat! And it's almost impossible to get fired. Not even, and this is the kicker, not even if you can't do your job. Management is meant to train you, and at the absolute end, transfer you to another department.