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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trainee4u" data-source="post: 215247" data-attributes="member: 30779">I was specifically told that it was a PFO for the scores - the email suggests it was not for the VI aspect:Thank you for completing the Amberjack assessment for your Stephenson Harwood application.Unforunately, your overall score has not met our criteria and we are unable to progress you to the next stage of the process on this occasion.You should have received a personalised feedback report from Amberjack. Please take some time to read through this and think about how you can best prepare for future assessments.If one reads the feedback:Creative (6/9) "This is an area where you demonstrated a good level of potential, although you occasionally missed a number of opportunities to take a forwardthinking approach in the situations presented to you, and could have done more to consider the bigger picture, identify opportunities for success and drive change for the better in the way that you responded."Grit (7/9) "demonstrated clear strengths, showing that you were mostly able to overcome challenges in a positive and calm manner, and making a strong attempt to remain dedicated to successfully achieving your various tasks and responsibilities."Digital Mindset (9/9) "exceptional potential."Applied Intellect (4/9) "Based on your results on the assessment, you did show some good judgement, although this is an area you would really benefit from developing further. In the situations presented to you, you would have needed to respond quite differently to show empathy, understanding others, and self-awareness when interacting with a range of individuals."The "quite differently" does appear to be a "you are not good enough" response.As such, it looks like you'd need to score 5+ on this.While they clearly treat 4/9 on applied intellect as "you are unemployable, FOAD", I'm not sure that scoring 4/9 on other categories would necessarily result in the same response - not all of their pillars are necessarily of equal value.They do say "your overall score" in the rejection,which implies they sum things, but I would guess that they don't necessarily do, so, as my overall 26/36 plus 5/6 on the verbal/numerical seems very good overall.</blockquote>

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