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Waiting .........an invitation to Stage 2 :cool:

Well I'm heading down tomorrow for the long awaited stage 3, and my laptop decided to pick this exact moment to crash and refuse to work and the guy I've given it to says my hard drive might be dead so I would have lost all of my interview preparation stuff.
So now I'm a bit worried haha.

SMS576 Lost Internet connection
 

Hi SMS576,

What happened to your problem?
Have you been able to resume your examination?
What did they say?
:confused:

How did it go Freddles?

Has anyone who has taken stage 3 heard back from them yet? Got mine in a couple of days! Nervous but only as prepared as I can be so shall see what happens. Good luck to everyone else!

Not expecting to hear from them for a few weeks...

I hope this isn't too intrusive of a question as I'm sure there are others here who haven't completed stage 3 yet...

During the stage 3 interview, was any knowledge of ATC required AT ALL? I'm prepared for the main bulk of stuff giving life examples and situations and such but I would be coming into this profession completely blind and wondered if any knowledge was required to answer any questions?

I can understand if no one wants to say anything incase it gives an advantage but I figured it would hardly give me an advantage with a day to go as I can't learn that much in that space of time! Thanks for any insight.

Stage 2
 

Bit of info may interest some...

Had my email today about stage 2... Checking I'm still interested. Expecting to run assessments July to September Adams well hear more soon. Completed online stuff September 2014. Yay Yay Yay!
:)

Those waiting for stage 2..
 

I had an email today regarding stage 2 dates. It said that they would be releasing dates soon for stage 2 and that they will be held in June, July and August, and to email back only if you have changed your mind due to the long wait.

Eek! Not long now!!

I got my email too B-)

Correction to my last post - July, August and September are the months that the interviews will be held.

Excitement caused some confusion :(

stage 2
 

mmmm ???? :rolleyes:
Only three go to stage 2 ¿?¿?¿? :E

any news?

No, Megamc. I received the same email and certainly didn't reply. Passed through to this stage in August last year...probably completing on a house next Friday. I'll hopefully become a landlord in a few years since I'm not holding my breath or a speedy move between Stages 2 & 3 (should I get through obviously).

So if I understand it correctly, you will not go, then by now we are: Manicpeanut, WelshPride1989 and I..... (summing :ugh: ......3

I got my email too, so it makes four of us :) Even though I only completed the online assessments 3 weeks ago. Hopefully, it will move fast, I'm so excited!

Btw, I do believe conc1845 is planning on attending stage 2, since he said he didn't reply to their email.

I'm going too!
 

''Hanima'', you're a really lucky one, I've past my tests last year in March, so I've been waiting for more than an year!!!
Anyway ''manusa'' you have to think there are other people outside this forum who's waiting for their chances, not everyone who's waiting has logged in on this site.
Never mind, at last will get there in the end!

Sorry, the 2nd part was for ''Megamc''
 

You're really lucky ''Hanima'', I've past my tests last year in March, I've been waiting for more than an year!
About how many will attend Stage 2 - you have to consider that there are many people outside this forum who are waiting for their chance.

Got my invitation to book Stage 2!!!
 

Me again! Just got an email from Kirsty regarding the booking for Stage 2 through July, August & September.
Want to wish good luck to all of us who would attend!

Had the email to book onto a stage 2 test date this morning. I've booked for 7th
August. Hope to see some of you there :)

I had the email too :D :D :D :D :D :D :cool:

About how many.???

Ok with hanima + RobertSaturn + conc1845 = six + other six outside this forum ..... 12


and says that at the end they'll take the best 25 so.... let me think.... :ugh::ugh::ugh: nooo I can't :ugh::ugh::ugh:


It's a joke ;)

Anyway GOOD LUCK EVERYONE !!! :ok:

P.S. Someoen from Spain ???

I'm going on 3rd August!
 

Want to wish good luck to everyone!

booking ASSESSMENT DATE ERROR???
 

Hi

This is not a joke
I have click to book and ...
"There are no time slots available for this event. Please contact us so that we can consider alternative options"

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Anyone else ?

Hi there!

Yes exactly the same. It says below just to keep checking back :) Glad I'm not the only one ;)!

Best of luck!

EDIT: I tried to book on at 1400 today and it said the same thing.

buuuuaaaaaaa :uhoh:

I want to book now!!!!!!

Well, is there someone from spain?

With a 1-2 year waiting period, there's probably a lot of people trying to lock into one of these dates. I got July 21st, anyone else? :)

I think I remember reading on the NATS website that stage 2 started with a written test. You had to study some material in advance, but now I can't find that reference. Can anyone confirm this?

Btw, Megamc, I'm from Portugal. I actually looked into an ATC program in Spain before I found out about NATS (FerroNATS, I believe) :)

Regarding Stage 3 again.
 

Has anybody heard back from their interviews? It's been around 2 weeks now and I'm getting a bit restless haha.

That was some fast booking for Stage 2! :eek:

Not yet. But, after waiting a year and a half for Stage 3, a few weeks don't seem like that much :rolleyes:

I thought I was clear enough...this does not bode well for my communication skills! But yes, I'll be booking when they become available. I checked at 1900 today and the same "No date" message was displayed then too.

Hey first time posting on this.
I applied about 3-4 weeks ago. Booked my date about 15 minutes after getting the email through today, worked aboslutely fine for me even did it on my phone :/

Although as soon as I had booked it I got an email informing me the time was incorrect and it was in fact 8 am not 9 am.

I'm going 24 August

Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think we have to study anything before stage 2 anymore. I have been reading previous discussions on this thread too (such as documents being sent to applicants) and nothing like this is mentioned in the email, so I am assuming it has been removed (or moved to stage 3?)

Weird about all dates being filled, btw. I also had no trouble booking 7th August. Hope you guys are able to book soon!

Just mentioned feast and dart, which are cognitive tests really.

Apologies if i'm doing this wrong, 1st post.

I got my stage 2 invitation email yesterday, clicked on the date and with a bit of hesitation (about 3mins) I decided to go for the 6th July, clicked confirm and the whole of July was fully booked. People obviously didn't mess about after receiving the email. Fortunately I managed to get booked in for the 3rd August :ok:

If anyone has any information regarding the Stage 2 that I can revise, it would be greatly appreciated

Anyone have heard of FEAST TEST TRAINING!!!
 

I was checking online for some tests and found this, is available in App Store & Google Play Store.
Anyone in here has tried it, is it worth? The price on App Store is £27.99. I'm just wondering if it's similar to what we'll have to do???

RobertSaturn, I did some digging as well to see what I could use to practice for the stage 2 tests. I found out about that app (and a few more like it), but I don't think I'll be buying anything. From what I've read in forums, FEAST is designed to test your skills, rather than your preparation. I'd guess it's a bit like the online assessments, preparation doesn't matter nearly as much as being able to think quickly and clearly. That's why I don't think the investment is worth it.

However, I've been checking out some nice tools to get acquainted with the brain exercises/ATC stuff. There's a few that I've found to be interesting:

Airport Madness - multitasking, awareness

Lumosity - full of little games to test speed, attention, memory, etc. Some contents used to be free, I believe, now after an initial test you have to pay a subscription fee (about 7€ a month)

And, of course, the NATS games ;)

Btw, what do you think would be a nice score on those NATS games? I struggle with some more than others. In particular, what do you think would be a good score for the sequential memory and reactive avoidance tests?

I'd be surprised if anyone has been stupid enough to pay that much to find out

Some have had to play them. A lot. :bored:

I thought Strip Display management as it was then was quite fun at the time. Not sure what I'd think now though.

I used lumosity, it was quite good to pass the time but probably did little to improve or change my scores to the nats tests.

I also played a lot of tetris (Free Tetris | Tetris Friends Online Games I think I used) which was a similar thing, a good way to pass the time but probably did nothing to imrpove my scores.

Hi, Hanima!
 

I think you're right, everything is about reaction in this tests and brain as well!

About the NATS games, they are ok, with the cards game I can't go past tthe level with 5cards, that starts to be difficult to me; the other is ok, I managed close to 4000.

But never mind, everything in the test will be new, never heard or played, so indeed is all about us!

I'm going on 3rd August - GOOD LUCK TO ANYONE!!!