Joey,
Last time I was paying attention people were generally being put on the August course, though I think I did see a post from someone the other day who said they were on the October course, so you may have just missed the August one. Personally I'm really hoping they are still putting people on the August course as after 3 months of complications with my medicals there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel and I really want to be able to get on with it all now without further delay! It will also depend if you want to go area or aerodrome, I think the aerodrome courses are a little oversubscribed (partly due to several recent aero courses being cancelled as NATS didn't have need for the controllers at that time, or something along those lines) so you might have a longer wait if you want to go that route. I wouldn't be suprised if they aren't even offering aero at the minute, but don't have up to date info on that - anyone who has passed recently care to comment?
Regarding pass rate: my understanding is that there isn't a fixed pass rate, there is a benchmark standard and if you reach it you pass, so in theory all of your stage 3 group might pass or none of them might pass. I think statistically the pass rate for stage 3 is somewhere in the region of about 50%, but thats just based on hearsay. When I sat mine one of the assessors said that roughly the top 5% of total candidates make it to stage 3 and according to the NATS website about 3% pass the whole selection process, which does support a statistic of around a 50-60% pass rate for stage 3.
I presume you have your stage 3 coming up? Best of luck
