Thanks for confirming that, I may have to reconsider whether I feel ready to retry again then
Never heard of this "two attempts at enhanced" before. If u keep passing but don't reach what a TOC determines to be an "enhanced score" then you don't lose any lives.
I repeat my theory on this "enhanced standard" that knocks about. I have believed for a while that there is no such thing as a set "enhanced standard". It is whatever the TOC determines it to be.
Basically, a TOC will advertise, and get thousands of, in the case of EMT a year ago 2300, applicants. For 30-40 jobs.
They will sift these down to 600 or so by the questions on the application form. Basic failures to follow instructions like "remove personal info from your CV" would also be a fail!
They will book about 600 places on "stage 1" where the OPC will attend a venue and put you through several paper tests. One of these on stage 1 is the GBT.
Pass rate is about 30%. So they are left with 180 candidates from these 600.
They then book 40 places on the expensive "stage 2" OPC assessments (where the pass rate is 95%).
To reduce 180 to 40 they do driver manager interviews. But 180 interviews is far far too high. Would take too long and cost too much management time. They want to interview about 70.
So how do they get from 180 who passed that "stage 1" to 70?
They get the 180 who passed and order their results in order just using the GBT test result. The top 70 are deemed to have an "enhanced score" and progress to interview.
These 70 are then reduced to 40 with the "tell me about a time you..." driver manager interview.
In the last round of EMT recruitment several candidates applied having already passed with other TOCs. However, they were still asked to come into do just the GBT part of stage 1. Scouse Scott was one I believe. This allowed EMT to see if they had reached this "enhanced" standard.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
So my advice. You have 20-25% chance of passing the sift so make sure your application is top dollar. Every part of your application procedure and interviews needs to be perfect. 40 out of 2300 means that for every successful candidate there are about 56 who are not. But if you want enhanced standard, practice the GBT test until you are sick of it.