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BAW : Bit lofty of one to suggest that "you shouldn't really need to know the questions".. ! Blimey, yeah, but it helps !
Very long thread and I posted elsewhere about this. We all know just how helpful knowledge of questions can be. Knowledge of answers an outright winner. But Selectors will be floored if candidates are knowledgeable of questions and answers. Defeats the whole object.
Opening up the candidate market to a wide supply where the selection devices become open knowledge and practiced is absolute nonsense.
I have been a sponsored candidate to highly experienced Transport Commander and Selector. I quickly discovered the need to know what interviewers were looking for. Throughout my career it helped to know what Instructors and Examiners were looking for. INdeed, for UK ARB Type /Technical, unless you "knew" and "practiced" typical ARB exams, you would fail .
I know of one, for a time, highly respected and desired airline that relied heavily on a "Technical quiz". Pretty soon, those in the know had examples of all questions, all answers and knocked up envious scores of 90-6100%. Pointless eh ?
Sadly, nothing ideal and I know of one fellow selector who offered the view that if a candidate had gone to all the trouble of finding out about tests and exercises and even knew the answers, as a selection device. that candidate was showing initiative.
OK, leave out the good guys and take the cheats I retorted. Had to by my own coffee during a break in interviews.
Good luck to all though. Wicked opportunity for the lucky few.
From the Selectors point of view. A field of raw recruits with no selection criteria knowledge is the ideal but unachievable in practice.