Shaun L,
When I sat my stage 1 the lady overseeing the tests told us it generally takes most successful candidates about a month per stage (so three months). But this will depend on how fast you want to progress (i.e. do you take the soonest available date as soon as it is offered... or do you take it at a slightly more leisurely pace). Also depends on how fast HR process your results at each stage, they can take the full 15 working days (3 weeks), which obviously slows things down a little, or on the other hand if you're really lucky they can get then back to you super quick (think someone said they got their S2 results back on the same day!)
Once you've got your S3 you've also got to get your medicals and security clearance and then wait for the next start date at the college (think they said they run 4 courses a year, so if you're unlucky that could be a 3 month wait, meaning the whole process could take over 6 months from S1 to starting the course)
Last edited by Pat42; 7th September 2009 at 08:04.
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