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Old 8th Feb 2013, 15:52
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Hi everyone,

I attended Stage 1 Yesterday (7th) at NATS CTC. Found the first ATC paper to be nice and simple, and the mental arithmetic I had dusted off came in nicely.

As others have mentioned, I was surprised by the number of applicants to fail at this first hurdle. Although confident I had passed the first half, your heart certainly gets beating when they're reading names out at the front.

Stage 2 invite has already arrived, but no dates bookable at the moment. I want to leave it a few weeks anyway and mentally 'zone' before the next onslaught.

All the best to everyone else!

Alex
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Old 8th Feb 2013, 16:32
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I was there yesterday at 1330 as well, got through too but as you said there's no dates available at the moment
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Old 8th Feb 2013, 16:35
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Congratulations extalex and anyone else who has succeeded so far!

I too attended the stage 1 yesterday (7th) and about half failed the motivational paper. So relieved when we were told we had passed it! I thought the diagramming and the cubes were tough, just as I'd expected.

Thankfully I got an email today inviting me to Stage 2!

Good luck to anybody waiting for results!

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Old 8th Feb 2013, 22:33
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Hi! I have been invited to attend stage 1 and i was just wondering if anyone could clarify something for me? Is there a numeracy test aswell as the ATC paper or is it just the ATC paper asking questions about the document they told us to revise? the reasoning im asking is because i keep reading here in the forum that there is a math paper of some sort at stage 1 but today on the NATS facebook page NATS answered in a comment that there is no numeracy paper on stage 1 so i am a bit confused!

Thanks
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Old 8th Feb 2013, 23:07
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either of you from 13.30 group?
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Old 8th Feb 2013, 23:11
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Tooomek, I was there at the 13.30 tests
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Old 9th Feb 2013, 00:24
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How many people tend to be on these test days? From the sounds of things, could be quite a few.
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Old 9th Feb 2013, 07:35
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P.wilson I think it must depend. I've read others talk about 30-40 people attending on the day and others not so many. At the group I went to, we had quite a small class with little more than 15 people!
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Old 9th Feb 2013, 08:45
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Congrats to you two, and any others who got their Stage 2 invite.

I was there at the 1130 group, so wouldn't have bumped in to either of you. Our group was quite big, about 30-35 but this was reduced to about 12 after the first paper.

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Old 9th Feb 2013, 12:06
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@Sametoyou,

I was sitting in the corner on the windows side, blue shirt, you? might bump into each other on S2
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Old 9th Feb 2013, 13:10
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@tooomek

I think I might remember you! I was the the girl in the middle of the second row from the back (the row made up of only girls after the motivation paper, if I rememeber correctly!) if that makes any sense!
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Old 9th Feb 2013, 16:25
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So, I just submitted my application online.
Fingers crossed!
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Old 10th Feb 2013, 11:01
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I'd email HR and ask them. There is (as far as I'm aware) always a motivation paper to start the assessment day.
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Old 10th Feb 2013, 13:03
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this blank link you're clicking on... what does it say? That might give you a clue.
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Old 10th Feb 2013, 14:15
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NATS calls it ATC paper and you must have a document under 'Test materials document' link which you have to prepare from. It's clearly explained in the email.
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Old 11th Feb 2013, 10:52
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Hello, applied over the weekend for the position. Received an email inviting me to do the online test this morning. Did the online test - averaging between 19 to 23 out of 25. So took the test, and think I messed up on one section, so i reckon I got 5 or 6 out of the 25 wrong.

Does anyone know of anyone that has failed the online test? Is it really a low pass mark? Reckon I got 75% ish.

Thanks.
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Old 11th Feb 2013, 11:30
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booked in for S2 on 27/02 - anyone attending?
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Old 11th Feb 2013, 12:06
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Just scheduled in for S2 on the 27th too!
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Old 11th Feb 2013, 14:47
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I'm considering it, but not sure If my month's wages can stretch to another trip down to Southampton in the same month!

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Old 11th Feb 2013, 17:17
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whoop invite to S1 this afternoon. 27th February. :-)
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