agrovick:


LMAO...

Longman6:

lol

veronica23:


Lol..AMEBO

nivlek:
I've been offline for the past 2weeks due to phone issues but have been keeping tabs on my mail box and didn't receive any mails from either FBN or Dragnet, I'm surprised to come online here today and see that invites have been sent and tests are already taking place.

Please is there anyone who didn't get a mail too? Or are the invites being sent in batches? I met all the criteria and I'm not close to 26 , so I don't get why I wouldn't get the invite. Any other person in the same shoes please??

TeddyPendergrass:
Okay here is my two cents yeah?

Dragnet this is for you: why waste so much resources on administering a test that requires candidates physical presence at a test center when you can administer the same test remotely. This will ensure that more candidates are afforded the opportunity to participate, unemployed graduates who do not necessarily have abundants funds to bankroll a journey thru and fro test centers especially when this is interstate will be relieved of this inconvenience, the perils associated with this kind of journeys will be alleviated as well. Ultimately, you will cuts costs at your own end. The backlog of increased entries can be dealt with by automating the entire process down to shortlisting of successful candidates. The process becomes more efficient, even effective.

Now, onto the test itself. This requires speed and accuracy. It cannot be overemphasized. Speed and Accuracy, my fellow soldiers in this battle to defeat the enemy, unemployment.

Really in these kinds of tests, what you are being guaged on is not necessarily how brilliant you are, however your Traditional cognitive intelligence is being put to the test. This is the ability to plan, reason, and use logical deduction to solve problems, but also the capability to apply abstract thinking while learning from and responding to the environment. So there is no time to calculate, ponder or even think as time is of the essence. As a gentleman shared earlier in a post before me, you use logic to address these questions. If you have to provide an answer to an arithmetic question, you do not have to solve the question right down to the end, ohhh no soldier you dont do that. Once you see the enemy, you hold that government issued M16 up right and shoot for the head. No questions asked. Look at your options, what is your most probable answer, if you can spot it, great stuff. If you can't, your village people have spotted you and are stabilizing the water pot so they can see you clearly. Do not let this happen. You can sort this out by eliminating options from the list starting from most unlikely. Your only other option is to try solving the entire question in 30 seconds. Is this really the option you want to take. If your answer to this question is yes then my fellow soldier you will remain a soldier in this battle and you will attain the rank of chief of army staff in the not so distant future.

When taking passage questions, learn how to employ finger to eye coordination. As mentioned earlier, referring to the young man's article, I find that reading using my finger to trace in the passage while looking for answers is quite resourceful and I am assuming it will be same for you. No one cares how you work towards getting your answer. Just get it. Find what works for you and exploit it. You have to practise as well. Clear your mind and familiarize yourself with these different scenarios. Not just when you have a test like this, just do this in your spare time you know. Listen to the news, interact with people, listen to them, read books, magazines, newspapers and what have you. These items are the manual for your government issued M16. You have to learn to use that machine adequately.

Is this a guarantee that you will ace this mediocre system put in place to inadequately test competences that are semi related to functions that you will need to perform on the job. You be the judge of that.

Truth is, there is no wrong or right way to address the challenges that we will encounter. I might try a difficult way and it does not work for me, it can however work for another individual. My simple way might not work for the same individual who already has his/her way doing it the difficult style.

All am trying to say is, First Bank abeg if una dey select no forget me.

TeddyPendergrass:
Okay here is my two cents yeah?

No one cares how you work towards getting your answer. Just get it. Find what works for you and exploit it. You have to practise as well.

Enaren:
No be bank job again? Abi na short service we dey discuss here? Na joke I dey lol

TeddyPendergrass:


LOOL it was crazy man. I know am not suppose to eavesdrop on people's conversation but they were right behind me nothing I could do. At one point I turned around and looked at one of the girls that made a really shocking statement about men and she smiled at me like ''boy take me number and call me after today''. I frowned back at her like ''nah i'm good. I dont have a phone'' lool crazy stuff man

TeddyPendergrass:


no be only short service, na short time lool

Structuralman:


Did you check your spam/bulk mail?

kemisho:
I think today is the last day of Assessment, I stand to be corrected

clerics1:
My brother I am in the.same train with you. Mine they said my reg. Was not successful...telling me that I was supposed to receive a mail confirming my application was successful.

nivlek:


But the application was stated successful on their page after submitting. That's not fair

kaka22:

No, it is not. I applied but didn't go for the aptitude test. I received a mail from dragnet through survey monkey titled "first bank mop up" and they asked me if I will be available for the test this coming Saturday (Dec 17th). They also asked me to pick my preferred location... I may not attend sef

VMpi744:
Fallacy of HASTY GENERALIZATION




Free Advice: You dont always have to SOLVE anything. Just choose the correct option.
How you do it no one cares. Just dont giraffe sha
Nobody needs or care about your solutions.

Learn how to Eliminate Options. studying option format also helps. Eg.: while 'solving' you arrive at something like 457÷23. Before you enter #longDivisionMode, pause and look at how the options are presented. Are they in fraction? One decimal place? Or even the nearest whole number?

Back to the case of 447÷23, I know my answer would start with 1. If only one option has 1 at the beginning, that is my answer and case closed.

For those who complained about big number. Pls learn to ESTIMATE. Why? Cos it it save lives.

Someone mentioned in an earlier post that they gave a pie chart and asked them to compute the value of sector with 28.4°.

Let's assume the total of that pie chart is 150.
28.4° is approximately 30°
Hence we have (30°/360°) × 150 = 12.5
Cos I roundUp, i know my answer must be less than 12.5

Someone may ask what if the options are close? Well I would still be able to select an educated approximate and move on. #noTime.
Truth is they would never be close except calculators were allowed.

For the verbal.
Some people (category1) read once and they understand and remember everything while Others (category2) dont.
So before you take such test.
Pls practice and determine what strategy works for you.

For category1: simply read the passage as fast as you can and answer the questions that follow. Refer back to the passage if needed

For category2: the slow readers or the wanderers *those whose mind wander while reading (eg. Me)
Read the questions (& options).
Go back to passage and skim through it.
Select answer and move on.
Skip when the questions has taken more than 30s.
Finish early and cross-check
Answer those questions you skipped.

For those not in category1&2: define you strategy and become proficient at using it

With practice you become efficient in choosing the correct option.

For the analytical/logical:
When given a series of letters eg

MN5, KP4, ___

reason those letters in numbers (using their position in the alphabets) and thank me later

For general knowledge:
Make an habit of watching 9/10 o'clock news on local TV (NTA Network news or AIT, Channels News @10, Sunrise Daily, TVCNews @ 10, Channels Business News, NTA documentary like programmes, etc) everyday from you pry/sec school
You could add Aljezeera, CNBC, NatGeo and the likes too.
Listen to femi and the gang. TopSports, SportRadio. Koko Inu Iwe Iroyin. BBC Hausa. Etc

Just make sure you also install a filter in your ears else some on 'these people' would just brain wash you.

With that you can never be found wanting.

Note: it is never to late to catchUp. Make Google and Wiki your friends.

kemisho:
Pls I need urgent answer, my friend said she has gotten mail from first bank for interview

mayoor15:
haha mail for interview when exam is still going on, how can you fall for that

kemisho:
Mayor seriously the guy just sent me a message that he should cone for interview

AnalyticEngine:
I see that you guys are dealing out the questions out of solidarity. What foolishness! later, when they score higher marks and are selected and you guys are not, you begin to blame it on nepotism and village witches. whether you agree with me or not, this is a competition and not a fun fair. Be wise and accept this unpleasant truth.

mayoor15:
Lol, if the message was for AC, I hear but interview, cant laugh enough, results will be out after saturday exam i.e next week so calm your nerves, keep drinking cold zobo or kunu

ABUSITE:
Hello house,did anyone get a "Mop Up" invitation from Dragnet(first bank test).I was suppose to write the test on the 10th December which I was unable to,so I rejected the offer only to be texted a week later to come for the same. I want to know if anyone here got thesame text as I did.

famosh:

Mr man, all these strategy you mentioned, I know them; I'm that smart (not being proud) & I used them & even more. But I'm still telling you that you can't solve 50% of the maths questions including with the so called strategy you think we don't know about except you're lucky with easier questions , and by easier questions, I mean the ones which are more difficult than the pie chart question you talked about. What do you do when you are unlucky (like me) to be given a lot of questions with options close enough to defy the strategy you think should almost always work? Or what do you do when you're freaking given a lot of questions with very long word problems? How do you do you manoeuvre that? Or how do you manoeuvre compound interest questions that you already tried to solve to the point where you arrive at decimals raise to power another decimal and the options aren't helping matters by being too close to manoeuvre?
For the analytical questions you talked about, they were the easiest & quickest to solve; everything dey GMAT.