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European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competitions, so as to be eligible for jobs in the EU

institutions.

EPSO competitions (often called by their French name, concours) are divided into two main

types: those for Administrator (AD) level positions and those for Assistants (AST), with a sub-category being Secretaries (AST-SC).

While the structure of competitions shows some variability (in essence, the more specialised

and specific the role, the greater the weight put on applied specialised and specific job-related

knowledge), the core elements of competitions are the reasoning tests (psychometric tests) and as

the final stage the assessment of a candidate’s “competencies” at the Assessment Centre.

The reasoning tests, which for the majority of candidates constitute the first phase of the exams,

make up the “pre-selection” round. This comprises a range of psychometric tests, administered on

a computer, which measure candidates’ skills in numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning.

Nowadays almost everybody must take all of these tests.

For most candidates, it is the pre-selection round that proves the stumbling block, and in the

big “generalist” competitions a large majority fall at this hurdle. For this reason, the focus of the

The Ultimate EU Test Book Assistants 2020 is on the pre-selection tests. Successive chapters explain

what the various types of test involve, the skills needed to tackle them, and the errors to avoid –

and in each case this methodology is followed by extensive practice questions with detailed

explanations of the answers. All the questions have been specifically designed to mirror

Assistant-level competitions.