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Public Service Entrance Exam additional information

The Public Service Entrance Exam is divided into two categories: Unsupervised and Supervised. Under the “Unsupervised” category, there are three options that departments can use. All of the exams can be written in any physical environment, given the test taker has access to a computer and an internet connection. The main unsupervised exam: Unsupervised Internet Test [...]

How to Succeed in the Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) – Strategies

The Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) is the first screening test provided in the Post Secondary Recruitment Campaign. The Public Service Entrance Exam – Unsupervised Internet Test 370 (PSEE UIT 370) is taken online anywhere where candidates can connect to the internet. If candidates are successful, they are then invited to take the Public Service [...]

Post Secondary Recruitment (PSR) 2012 – September update

The Post Secondary Recruitment has started. With four recruitment campaigns as of September 21st, 2012, Budget 2012 has definitely had an effect on this year campaign. That being said, competition will be fiercer than it was in past years. This is due to the small number of coveted government positions available for the tens of thousands of students that [...]

2015 Post Secondary Recruitment Campaign

This year’s Post Secondary Recruitment Campaign will run from September 16, 2015 to October 6, 2015.  Every year, tens of thousands of applications are received for a few coveted positions. The main reason that many university students do not succeed is due to a lack of adequate planning and preparation. A sound knowledge of how [...]

The Supervised Public Service Entrance Exam 371

The purpose of the Supervised Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) 371 is to assess your reasoning and judgement skills for officer-level positions in the federal public service. Hiring managers use your score from this exam on its own or as the final step in a two-step assessment process, following an unsupervised version of the test (i.e., PSEE [...]

Online Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE UIT 370)

Similar to last year’s Post Secondary Recruitment (PSR) campaign,  the online / unsupervised Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) UIT 370 is composed of two separate exams (often called sub-tests: the Test of Reasoning and the Test of Judgement). All applicants are asked to take the Test of Reasoning (sub-test 1). The test of Judgement (sub-test [...]

Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) Tips

The Public Service Entrance Exam (PSEE) was a new initiative of the Government of Canada that started in 2011. The PSEE now forms part of the Post Secondary Recruitment selection process The purpose of the Public Service Entrance Exams are to test candidates’ knowledge in the following categories: arithmetic reasoning, logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and number or letter [...]