GAZZERROVERS
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I’m an ex airline pilot……VSE test 3 with the 3 shapes high demand….that was incredibly hard ….if you made only a few mistakes on that I’d say you’re awesome….and I’ve seen some testing over my career!!!!
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All done now. I think I got 5/6 error in part 2 and God knows how many in part 3. it doesn't help that sometimes the buttons seem to freeze on grey and you don't know whether to click or not! Anyway, what's done is done. Fingers crossed and best of luck to all! The waiting games begin... again!
tonyianmoore@g
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Yep, I think I fell for that once and then thought just wait a second to check. Hopefully not too long, got the first pass email 4 hours after the deadline
Yes, by the time it got to the 5th circuit I was thinking it's going to be different and it wasn't. Only on the third test did they change it up towards the end
BlueMike26
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Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice half of one of the dots disappear a few times in the third test? One of mine on the left hand side kept becoming a semicircle rather than a circle so I was marking it as error, but knowing my luck it just wasn't loading properly 
Reagan3698
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Yes, mine did this. The circle in bottom left. I clicked the button when it did it.
Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice half of one of the dots disappear a few times in the third test? One of mine on the left hand side kept becoming a semicircle rather than a circle so I was marking it as error, but knowing my luck it just wasn't loading properly
mrredrunner100
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Yeah I had this too, I am kind of wondering how much weighting is being put on to task 3 as it kept saying that the one on the left was more important than the one on the right, so I wonder how much of an effect that had. Anyway, can't change it now
One thing that did throw me off completely was when it flashed saying high demand. I'd rather just guess lol
So what did you have to do when it said high demand?
Nothing. It was just to let you know when the test was going to be of high demand, that being when it displays three matching/unmatching shapes rather than two.
I never saw that happen so I genuinely hope it wasn't just a case of me failing to notice. My first instance of noticing an error was seeing two dots on the circuit rather than one and I just about missed by a split second and marked an error where there wasn't one.Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice half of one of the dots disappear a few times in the third test? One of mine on the left hand side kept becoming a semicircle rather than a circle so I was marking it as error, but knowing my luck it just wasn't loading properly
Yeah, spotted this a few times.Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice half of one of the dots disappear a few times in the third test? One of mine on the left hand side kept becoming a semicircle rather than a circle so I was marking it as error, but knowing my luck it just wasn't loading properly
Chippychips
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Did anyone get the semicircles AND two dots on the track in their test?
Yes. Plus skipping spaces and red dots.
Omar0151@yahoo
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Just finished my tests. Wow my head is scrambled after the visual search! Similar results to others. Plenty of mistakes and lost composure on the combined task 3. Will see how it goes but don't feel very confident.
The more I hear about people's results after taking this test the more I'm convinced that it's as much about seeing how you recover from distractions and hiccups. It's very similar to the test where they have you pressing buttons of a different colour combined with hi and lo tones and pedals - they don't expect you to get it perfect, they want to see how you react after being thrown off. That said hearing about some of the other possible errors that I don't remember seeing is kind of making me nervous in case I missed them.
I’ve just finished mine too.. pressed the mouse by accident in the first part randomly, got 2 errors in part 2 & part 3 was just a free for all!! I think probably around 6-7 errors.. think I prioritised left side well enough but did notice a jump in the top left hand side nearer the end I hadn’t noticed before so all in all not feeling hugely confident with that
fingers crossed anyway! Good luck to everyone elseChippychips
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Ok guys and gals I understand a lot of people are feeling apprehensive but this may put a few of you at ease...
I came across a post from someone who done the VSE and M7 tests previously;
[after he posted this, a few days later he also posted that he PASSED the VSE- but failed the M7]
"Parts 1 and 2 I managed to do well enough but the third part where you had to do parts 1 and 2 at the same time but prioritize part 1 over 2 completely took me by suprise when multiple blue dots appeared on the track at the same time. I was not expecting it and even though I noticed it each time I ignored them until much later when I stopped thinking it was normal. It's a shame as the rest of the test was going smoothly. I know the test mentioned that there may be other errors but since it didn't directly mention what I would need to look out for my autistic brain got overwhelmed and ignored it as something other than an error.
Anyone else experience difficulties?"
Based on this, I'd say mistakes can be made and are expected. We just don't know how many...
I came across a post from someone who done the VSE and M7 tests previously;
[after he posted this, a few days later he also posted that he PASSED the VSE- but failed the M7]
"Parts 1 and 2 I managed to do well enough but the third part where you had to do parts 1 and 2 at the same time but prioritize part 1 over 2 completely took me by suprise when multiple blue dots appeared on the track at the same time. I was not expecting it and even though I noticed it each time I ignored them until much later when I stopped thinking it was normal. It's a shame as the rest of the test was going smoothly. I know the test mentioned that there may be other errors but since it didn't directly mention what I would need to look out for my autistic brain got overwhelmed and ignored it as something other than an error.
Anyone else experience difficulties?"
Based on this, I'd say mistakes can be made and are expected. We just don't know how many...
That has been somewhat reassuring. I am a bit more confident seeing everyone else's results but I won't find out until Wednesday at the earliest I reckon seeing as my deadline is just after 10am on Tuesday.
Omar0151@yahoo
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Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone.
BlueMike26
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I swear one of my errors was the train on the track not moving at all at one point too! I could have been mistaken though.
Mine too, but I do recall it saying in the instructions “there will be other errors”.
TacoTraveller
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The track had a semi circle (I only spotted it once) and another train appeared a few times again I only spotted it once or twice.
It also skipped stops and turned red.
I'm sure I even clicked an error that wasn't there at some point as I was adamant it had skipped.
I don't think test 3 is about score it's more how you recover from your mistakes as youd have to be extremely on the ball to do part 3 faultless.
It's just a waiting game now, hopefully we'll hear back tomorrow as the deadline is 23:45 tonight.
It also skipped stops and turned red.
I'm sure I even clicked an error that wasn't there at some point as I was adamant it had skipped.
I don't think test 3 is about score it's more how you recover from your mistakes as youd have to be extremely on the ball to do part 3 faultless.
It's just a waiting game now, hopefully we'll hear back tomorrow as the deadline is 23:45 tonight.
It’s not about how you recover! How will they assess that?
It’s purely on the amount of mistakes. Not trying to be harsh, but 4-5 mistakes is a fail (speaking from experience).
Jordmurray23
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I got rejected too
I had this too
TacoTraveller
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It's computerised. If you make a fail and then recover with consecutive answers correct it shows a means of recovery.
The test is made to be really difficult and designed so it's really hard to be faultless, so 4-5 mistakes as a fail is a high mark for a test that's designed to trip you up a lot
karl grindrod
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Nothing yet pal
Reagan3698
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Nothing yet.
I wouldn't expect anyone to hear anything back just yet. I expect there will be a good few hours after the first deadlines before results start getting sent out. Seeing as my deadline isn't until after 10am tomorrow, I expect Wednesday to be the earliest I hear anything back personally.
Ah right I just assumed all our deadlines were 23:45 last night. That makes sense then they’ll probably collate all scores after all deadlines have ended and then go from there. Good luck Sorcerer.