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TheHulk616:
my own was simple but the screenshots I saw was very hard oo

Excellent555:
So you saw screenshot bfr the test?

Excellent555:
I wonder when some people are saying that the test is simple.. What I did was tough

Excellent555:
I wonder when some people are saying that the test is simple.. What I did was tough

Ujai:
Omor the exams no be here o

Were you guys able to complete the 18 questions under 20minutes?

Ujai:
Omor the exams no be here o

Were you guys able to complete the 18 questions under 20minutes?

Wemimo5:
They must have realized some questions were leaked

Ujai:
Omor the exams no be here o

Were you guys able to complete the 18 questions under 20minutes?

Esthered:
Please for those that have taken the test, what Windows is your system as my friend is having difficulty with a Windows10 pro?

emoboy4u:
Get another pc

airsaylongcome:
^^^

Sounds like you didn’t prepare adequately for this. Anyone who applied should have been preparing immediately they completed their application.

MODAY1Ali:
Yes to be fair, I started preparing properly after receiving the invitation email last week but like I said, the issue wasn’t the difficulty of the questions. The questions themselves were relatively easy. The issue was the rather the short time allocated for questions. 20 minutes for 18 questions comes down to 66 seconds per question. Considering you have to read the question, process what is being asked, process how to go about solving the question using given parameters, and cross checking answers, it’s not a lot of time. To make it more tricky, the questions weren’t ‘what is x…’, ‘solve y…’, they were ‘which of the following must be true’, which requires systematic elimination. If you’re lucky and the answer is A, you must take a leap of faith and click it (without checking the other answers like you would in most other normal exams) but if the Answer is E, you have to eliminate 4 options before getting to the right one. It’s not beans.

airsaylongcome:
Which is why I said you weren’t properly prepared. Those questions have a “technique” to answering them where you can immediately eliminate some of the options on the answer list. It’s a test of speed AND accuracy. Everyone would 100% solve those questions if they were given sufficient time. The pressure of time is needed to eliminate as many as possible. I dare say as many as 80% of applicants will fall at this phase. Chances of success from application to offer is less than 1%

MODAY1Ali:
You’re beating a dead horse. I know exactly what it is meant to test for. What I’m saying is I wonder whether this is the best way to select for high quality technical talent. I wonder whether perhaps, testing for high level technical knowledge wouldn’t have been better. Globally competitive oil and gas firms, tech companies like FAANG routinely recruit quality talent without exams with such tight time constraints.

Even closer to home, did you see the immigration exam? Ridiculously simple but only 3% scored 90 and above (something any decently educated person should’ve been able to do). My point is there are many ways of testing you can use which EASILY weed out undesirables (for lack of a better word).

If you follow chess you’ll understand what I’m talking about. The same complaint is often made about bullet chess. It prioritises memorizing positions and reflexive reactions as opposed to raw chess ability.

Anyways, in all likelihood, the cut-offs will be normalised and percentile bands will be applied (if you make it over a certain percentile, congratulations, if not, tough luck) so getting a low score does not necessarily mean you’re out.

airsaylongcome:
Understand though that this is a GT recruitment. You’d be upskilled as part of the GT programme. Time and budget is critical. The business, may seem “big” because they pay very well. But compared to their contemporary in the same vertical, they are small. Qatar Gas that they started out with, is outperforming them in terms of annual production.

I don’t remember exactly now, but I remember we were in the millions when we applied in 2013. Less than 100 were eventually hired. It’s a gross filtration process and yes they will miss out on some stellar talents. But they will also pick top drawer talent. We had PhD holders amongst us in the 2017 resumption. I get your frustration, especially with the chess reference, but at the GT level, no one is really expecting any major innovation from you. Remember that the business (at very high level) is just a big chiller. Get gas. Clean gas. Deep cool gas. Store gas. Export gas. Rinse repeat.

MODAY1Ali:
Since you were in the 2013 and 2017 application set, what kind of timelines can we expect (the time till the next assessment, interview etc)?

If what you say about them selecting top 20% is true, that means 1 in 5. High performers should easily clear this (even the ones who did ‘poorly’ on the test). I really don’t think a lot of people will do okay given what I’ve seen.

What I want to know is whether rigid mark cut-offs or percentile bands will be used. I suspect the latter but this is my first time applying for NLNG.

As for competition, I welcome it. Though I think this time around, they’ll recruit more than previously.

Esthered:
Please what windows did you use as my friend is having difficulty accessing the SHL test using Windows10 pro?

Ujai:
I used window 10.

I think it has to do with the technical configuration of the system.
Try using another system and ensure to follow the steps that was highlighted in the invitation mail

airsaylongcome:
Some of the statements you are making here are pointing to poor research. That’s an observation and not a criticism. There was no 2013 and 2017 applications. People applied in 2013 and resumed in 2017.

Regarding timelines, I would say review the 2022 recruitment. I expect this to mirror that.

As for raw cut-off vs percentile, I can’t really speak to that. I know though that you guys will be broadly grouped into”Engineering” and “Business”. Internal need will determine the numbers.

MODAY1Ali:
I’m honestly not trying to be defensive (that’s not my personality) but… I’m curious which of my questions specifically point towards “poor research”? Making a mistake regarding the dates of previous recruitments? At the risk of possibly making a strawman argument, in my opinion sha, not knowing when a corporation conducted its previous recruitments doesn’t amount to poor research. People (especially with how tough things are in the country) have a lot of things going on in their lives. You can make the argument in favour of better preparation for the time constraints which is valid considering how popular it is (I was never actually complaining about it though. For all I know self, I did well on the assessment. Even then, I fully understand and appreciate why this specific type of assessment was used) but my other questions are in my opinion relevant and not nonsensical. It is also not a criticism to wonder whether perhaps different assessments would’ve been better at sieving. Questioning and reviewing methodology is a core engineering philosophy. This is how you achieve a high degree of empiricism. You’ll be amused to find out there’s a research paper (an important one at that) proving 1+1 cannot be anything except 2. Besides, I was under the impression that this platform is one where curious minds could freely make queries. Apologies if I derailed the discourse.

I’ve read online about SHL’s policy and found (not exactly but you get the gist) that individuals organizations have a lot of leeway in the way that data is interpreted and used. I’ll be careful next time asking if anyone knows how this data may be used to evaluate us.

The information that we may be grouped into the aforementioned categories is useful thank you very much. I long suspected that candidates maybe grouped into technical and non-technical categories.

You sound like someone who successfully scaled through once and is currently an employee there.

airsaylongcome:
No. If what I know is right, the business would have purchased a “pack” from SHL and that pack will have a bank of questions for each “subject”. I don’t expect that the question bank will be changed mid-recruitment primarily because of fairness.

I’m sure there has always been the possibility that people would screenshot their questions and share. I think people were “misled” into thinking the questions were “easy” and lowered their preparation. Even those running their mouth that the questions were “easy” will be shocked if they don’t get shortlisted. They will be the ones that will go around parroting that NLNG recruitment is “man-know-man”, when in fact they have not met up to the expectations of the business. One of the values of NLNG is Integrity. Prospective GTs already engaging in “non-Integrity” activities are already candidates to be screened out at first hurdle.

SHL is about speed AND accuracy. In the 2013 set, the way it got drawn out meant we had time to prepare. I remember closing from work at 5pm getting home and working SHL-style questions for hours before sleeping. Did that daily for however long and I still did not think I had passed when I wrote my SHL

airsaylongcome:
Hello sir. Please do you think there could be another round of test? Seeing as there was only 18 questions and in one section (deductive). Do you think this is a strategy to downsize candidates at this stage (just as was done in your set with WAEC) and probably do the next stage in a physical centre to curb the widespread cheating that evidently goes on with their online testing?
I don't know. And that's the truth. I wrote this exam 11 years ago and a lot has changed between then and now.

Back then, we had to go to a CBT centre to take the exam. We were given blank sheets of paper and a calculator to use in the exam. At the end of the exam both the calculator AND the sheets of paper (used or unused) were collected from us before we left the exam hall

MODAY1Ali:
I had to guess about half of the questions. This is why I’m inclined to believe that they may have changed questions (considering people who wrote earlier say theirs was easy).

Goodluck to everyone!

Thatitguy:
Hello sir. Please do you think there could be another round of test? Seeing as there was only 18 questions and in one section (deductive). Do you think this is a strategy to downsize candidates at this stage (just as was done in your set with WAEC) and probably do the next stage in a physical centre to curb the widespread cheating that evidently goes on with their online testing?

Stargurl20:
But this you progressed to the next stage in the end?

airsaylongcome:
Asking about the dates was the pointer. Nairaland has two major threads for the 2013 and 2022 applications. 2013 was very very "rich" as the recruitment was drawn out over 4 years. We had emotional highs and lows in that recruitment that I have never experienced anywhere else. And no, I am not an employee there. Not anymore

I'm not saying you shouldn't ask questions. You SHOULD ask. Na person wey no ask na hin dey loss. Maybe I'm projecting on you. And maybe unfairly so. I'm a very inquisitive person and I kinda got drawn when you said you had honours degree in 2 engineering disciplines. In my mind, I would have devoured as much information as I can find regarding the recruitment. And Nairaland is loaded regarding information about NLNG recruitment. I believe (I maybe wrong) Nairaland information about NLNG recruitment goes as far back as 2007. So when I said your questions (especially the one talking about a 2013 AND 2017 recruitment) suggested you hadn't researched, I was indicating that you hadn't devoured all the information on NL surrounding NLNG GT recruitment.

jikolp:
People who wrote earlier felt the exam was easy because compared to all the shl practice test they saw the actual exam was easier.

Not because the exam is easy

You and other people writing later assume the exam is going to be easy because some ppl who wrote earlier said so

MODAY1Ali:
When I had fewer life responsibilities, I had the chance to scour through hundreds of recruitment pages devouring any information I could find. In 2023, for a job I wanted, I went through all 319 pages (at the time) of a recruitment thread.

For this recruitment, I applied in September and since then, I only had the chance to sporadically practice. My academic ‘leave’ started early December which is what afforded me the time to practice full time after receiving the invitation.

Regarding my 2 engineering degrees. Yes I studied civil engineering as a first BSc which I got High Honours (3.91/4 final year gpa). I believe in challenging myself so I later went back to bag another degree in software engineering (not full 4 years though since I had so many prerequisites).

Everywhere I’ve been, the best engineers tend to be methodical, thorough (constantly reviewing their work, questioning their assumptions, painstakingly looking for points of failure), with exceptional engineering intuition. These people would be average at best on these type of assessments.

Still though, I’ve only ever heard good things about NLNG. I trust the process and their ability to select exceptional candidates.