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EU Pre Selection Test - Eu Competition Tips

 
EU Knowledge multiple choice questions test, focuses on Europe, European Union, the new Enlargement process and the candidate countries. The European Union Pre Selection Test is taken in the second Community language (as specified by the candidate)
Background:
You will have to thoroughly understand the workings of the EU. If you plan to do a concour in the future (in one year) start following the news. Read EU related news and some articles on a daily basis and be aware of what are the hot topics of the moment. This way you will start building your knowledge. Sometimes such things take time to 'settle' in one's head, as EU institutions and procedures can be baffling. Cross referencing info across different sources also helps you 'verify' the info you assimilate.

The EU institutions, their policies and who is responsible for what are the essentials of the EU pre selection test on European Union matters.

You should also start reviewing EU History, which takes up around 80% of the test questions. You should also be familiar with the treaties, the actors behind the creation of the EU, and what events led to shape Europe as it is today.

You will also find questions in the exam, about NATO, Western European Union and other EU related institutions such as the Council of Europe.

All the research you do on the knowledge test will help you in the Interview phase as well.

 
Things to do and know really well:
 
Treaties (WEU, ESCS etc) Main Actors in EU creation (Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman etc) Current EU Knowledge EU Institutions Websites especially the EU commission news section. Flip through the Official Journal Find out where the EU has offices in your country, and see What available material they have EU Acronyms (and there are a lot of them)
 
The Exam:
40 multiple choice questions.

You will not get deductions for wrong answers

 
Guessing Intelligently in the EU Exam:
Do not touch the answer sheet before you have done the answers on the actual paper.

Rule no one to intelligent guessing is temporarily leave the ones you do not know out, if as soon as you see the question, you realize you do not know the answer, do the next question.

In the EU pre selection test it could be the case that the answer will lie hidden in another question, or another question will remind you of the answer.

As soon as you finished the questions you know, start going through the EU pre selection test. Out of the four answers, one answer will generally be obviously wrong. So that leaves you with three correct answers. If two of the three remaining are similar, choose one of them. Usually an EPSO Examiner will try to test the detail of your knowledge so he would put quasi exact answers to try and confuse you. But be careful if two answers say completely the same thing, then they are obviously wrong, you cannot have two correct answers.

When three out of four answers are very similar, the examiner is playing around with the same idea in three different ways. Then there is a very good chance that the correct answer lays within that group. The concept is the examiner would not waste three alternatives; he would like to test the depth of your knowledge.

In case the answer are playing with words i.e. they use very similar words, again the EU pre-selection examiner is trying to test the depth of your knowledge, pick one in that group.

In case all fails say the answer exactly after the question and check which one make the most sense, if it still does not work choose the longer answer the examiner may have used more words to write the correct answer.

Follow this advice and you will be closer to your EU Institution Job.

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