When I was invited to interview I was also set a task to analyse two revision guides; a CGP one and a competitors version, to write a product review report which I would be using on the day to lead a discussion. On the day of my assessment there was six of us for that session. Soon after we arrived we were put into a board room to take a mental agility test comprising of 50 questions which we had 15 minutes to answer. We were told that we were not expected to answer all 50 but to answer as many as possible. The questions ranged from some word sequences, number sequences, maths word problems, word matching etc, all things you should be able to do quite quickly. Once this was finished we were split off and individually rotated around a further five tasks: InDesign assessment - using Adobe InDesign we were asked to re-create a page of a CGP book which was given as a hard copy. All text was provided, the idea was to complete the design aspect. WordStyle - This task involved taking a piece of text which simulated an entry from a teacher and editing the text to be suitable for a CGP book, putting it into simple language, bullet points etc. Proofreading - During this task we were given some pages from a GCSE history book which had some obvious mistakes and some less obvious and asked to proof read them Interview - Each of us were interviewed by two people; one managing editor and a person from the hiring team, they asked questions about choices of A-levels, degree, experience during university, past work and work experience, mostly normal questions. Discussion - this was probably the worst task, it was just me and two people from CGP and it was more like a presentation than a discussion because they largely just left you to talk about your observations about the two books then they would ask quite challenging questions. The whole thing felt quite awkward.

Went to the Lake District for the assessment day. There were four other applicants there and we alternated tasks throughout the day. This included proofreading, summarising, page design, comparing two textbooks and the interview. Everyone was very nice and made you feel comfortable.