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Old 29th Jul 2009, 16:31
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Zippy Monster
 
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How would you know? you don't. piss off.
Settle down ground wolf.
Your patronising comments are starting to annoy people.
Most of them are just kids... or they just like to act like one.
"Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!"...

If I may offer my own view on the maths test - don't worry about it. If you have any amount of mathematical nous about you, it won't be too much of a problem. It's pretty basic GCSE / early AS-level standard stuff. By all means do a bit of practise beforehand and prepare yourself well, but don't spend the entire week beforehand on it - it's not that hard. In my opinion it's the easiest bit of the entire process.

I suspect jb5000 may well have hit the nail on the head with regard to selection at the moment, and not just at this FTO but at all of them. In the past, CTC could pick the cream of the crop at the interview process because the funding was so easy to get. I sorted mine out over the phone while in the pub. I got an extension to my repayments while waiting for a type rating by popping into the branch and having a 20-second conversation with the account manager. It just doesn't happen like that any more. I know one guy who has passed CTC selection but is delaying his start while he scrapes together the funding and waits for his family to remortgage some property. Not everyone is going to be in a position to do that, and those that are might not want to, so logic would dictate that to maintain course numbers, the FTOs will have to extend their selection criteria.
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