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Post by funkyodar on May 6, 2016 8:37:19 GMT -5
TL, I think SF means the glob of newcomers from the recent posting.
From Websters: bolus -"a large dose of a substance given by injection for the purpose of rapidly achieving the needed therapeutic concentration in the bloodstream "
Oh, I think Tiger was just joshing you. He knows what a "bolus" is. It's his typical Saturday night.
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Post by southernfun on May 6, 2016 8:45:34 GMT -5
From Websters: bolus -"a large dose of a substance given by injection for the purpose of rapidly achieving the needed therapeutic concentration in the bloodstream "
Oh, I think Tiger was just joshing you. He knows what a "bolus" is. It's his typical Saturday night. What is "joshing"?
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Post by funkyodar on May 6, 2016 8:54:06 GMT -5
Josh: v: joshed, joshing, joshes To tease someone good-humoredly: She joshed her brother about his strange new haircut. (Also applicable to Tigerlaw) To make or exchange good humored jokes; banter. n: a teasing or joking remark.
You know, pretty much everything I do on the board.
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Post by southernfun on May 6, 2016 9:17:33 GMT -5
hmm, I'll try and use it in a sentence.
SF was joshing when he asked "what is joshing?"
did I use it correctly?
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Post by Pixie on May 6, 2016 10:21:08 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Lulu on May 12, 2016 9:34:53 GMT -5
Seven weeks from online component and still waiting...Just thought I'd say that to a group who may or may not care but understands.
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Post by southernfun on May 12, 2016 10:21:05 GMT -5
Seven weeks from online component and still waiting...Just thought I'd say that to a group who may or may not care but understands. By "online component" you mean you submitted your online testing (all 3 parts) seven weeks ago? (Not the online application) How many weeks since the window to take it ended? It has seemed more accurate to measure from the end of the window you were given.
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Post by Lulu on May 12, 2016 10:24:29 GMT -5
southernfun, I mean from the time I submitted my online testing. testing closed 4/22.
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Post by southernfun on May 12, 2016 15:00:07 GMT -5
southernfun, I mean from the time I submitted my online testing. testing closed 4/22. If yours closed 4/22 - so tomorrow is 3 weeks from when your window closed. My WAG, based on my usual obsessive amount of research mixed with speculation, is that you have 2 to 3 more weeks to go to hear something. (It appears to take 5 to 6 weeks total from window closing, but I have heard of outliers taking 3 months).
My window closed 4/29, so I expect to be one week behind you - so, you have a cyber stalker.... haha. But wishing you all the best that we both get through and they lump a bunch of us together for the same DC trip!
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Post by sealaw90 on May 12, 2016 17:40:47 GMT -5
Seven weeks from online component and still waiting...Just thought I'd say that to a group who may or may not care but understands. There are many on this board who care. If I recall, the testing cycle is supposed to be completed within the fiscal quarter you started testing in. Since it appears you started in the 3rd quarter (April to June) I assume you still have some time to wait for your WD/SI components. Good luck.
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Post by surly on May 12, 2016 20:02:49 GMT -5
southernfun, I mean from the time I submitted my online testing. testing closed 4/22. I think leeann meant to say, " Friday, March 11, 2016 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time until Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time...." Making, this past Tuesday seven weeks after online testing closed.
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Post by surly on May 12, 2016 20:10:32 GMT -5
There are many on this board who care. If I recall, the testing cycle is supposed to be completed within the fiscal quarter you started testing in. Since it appears you started in the 3rd quarter (April to June) I assume you still have some time to wait for your WD/SI components. Good luck. SL90, Wishful thinking that I'm not convinced that is true. I think the process takes a year (three to four quarters of the FY) for vet applicants too. Here is why: I applied in the first quarter of FY16 and I did the online testing at the end of the second quarter of FY16. If (and this is a pretty big if) I get invited for the proctored portion, I do not expect that to happen until late June or potentially the middle of July (given the need for most folks to coordinate and plan travel, etc). I would then expect the results to arrive no earlier then September or, most likely, after 1 October (and thereby in the next FY).
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Post by sealaw90 on May 12, 2016 20:53:21 GMT -5
There are many on this board who care. If I recall, the testing cycle is supposed to be completed within the fiscal quarter you started testing in. Since it appears you started in the 3rd quarter (April to June) I assume you still have some time to wait for your WD/SI components. Good luck. SL90, Wishful thinking that I'm not convinced that is true. I think the process takes a year (three to four quarters of the FY) for vet applicants too. Here is why: I applied in the first quarter of FY16 and I did the online testing at the end of the second quarter of FY16. If (and this is a pretty big if) I get invited for the proctored portion, I do not expect that to happen until late June or potentially the middle of July (given the need for most folks to coordinate and plan travel, etc). I would then expect the results to arrive no earlier then September or, most likely, after 1 October (and thereby in the next FY). Oh. That sucks. I figured you would be waiting for your NOR for awhile, but I thought they'd be quicker with the actual testing. Sorry. But you'll be on the register before the new applicants!
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Post by southernfun on May 13, 2016 6:33:28 GMT -5
southernfun, I mean from the time I submitted my online testing. testing closed 4/22. I think leeann meant to say, " Friday, March 11, 2016 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time until Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time...." Making, this past Tuesday seven weeks after online testing closed. In that case, I agree its longer than I had seen on the forums and longer then two fairly recent vets I talked to in private. But all of this is more complicated for OPM by the large number of refresh applicants. I tend to be positive and lean optimistic, its part of my sunny Southern disposition. 3/22 closing puts the both of you five weeks ahead of me, so since I was hoping to hear something within five to six weeks of my 4/29 closing, now I have reason to expect a much longer wait. What is interesting is the 10-pt-vet rule that vets have to be tested before the end of the quarter after they apply. Clearly for you, that just meant the online testing, obviously not the entire multistep and DC portion. What I have never heard is after the first online testing (meeting the requirement to be tested before the end of the next quarter), are there any other time limits or requirements to expedite vets. I haven't heard of any and haven't seen them expedited specially. The 10 pt vet process has seemed quicker, but I suspect it has been because there are relatively few people at each stage at any one time, not because OPM is being required to move quicker. Now that there has been a refresh, 10 pt vets, in my opinion, may need to settle in for a longer road. OPM is doing a great job considering the magnitude and importance of their task, a task, when completed, that will significantly aid over a million Americans desperately waiting to get the aid and assistance that we, as a nation, have collectively decided to offer the injured and ill.
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Post by Prrple on May 13, 2016 17:33:18 GMT -5
Seems like 10-point Veterans who applied in this quarter will be in the line with non-Veterans for the rest of this quarter.
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Post by southernfun on May 13, 2016 17:58:00 GMT -5
Seems like 10-point Veterans who applied in this quarter will be in the line with non-Veterans the rest for this quarter. 1st) Just a WAG? or is there a basis for this?
2nd) Do you mean the Vets who applied earlier this quarter and have already finished online testing will have to wait for the 5,500 peeps to catch up in the process to go forward from here?
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Post by Prrple on May 13, 2016 21:00:21 GMT -5
Seems like 10-point Veterans who applied in this quarter will be in the line with non-Veterans for the rest of this quarter. 1st) Just a WAG? or is there a basis for this?
2nd) Do you mean the Vets who applied earlier this quarter and have already finished online testing will have to wait for the 5,500 peeps to catch up in the process to go forward from here?
It's a SWAG, based on this: The rule is that 10-point Veterans can open the window when it's closed, and that the initial test occurs within one calendar quarter. Nothing in the rules accelerates the remainder of the process of assessing whether the applicant gets on the register. This calendar quarter, the window was open. Those 10-point Veterans who applied in the open application window are processed with the rest of the applicants. I see no rationale to believe that 10-point veterans who got to open the window a few weeks before or after the window was open to all applicants will be accelerated in the remainder of the process. I believe they'll process the 10-point Veterans who apply in the current calendar quarter right along with the applicants in the general application window from this same quarter. That's the S in my SWAG.
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Post by Lulu on May 18, 2016 12:41:01 GMT -5
southernfun, I mean from the time I submitted my online testing. testing closed 4/22. I think leeann meant to say, " Friday, March 11, 2016 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time until Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time...." Making, this past Tuesday seven weeks after online testing closed. Surly,
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thanks, I totally didn't catch that. BTW, still no results.
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Post by southernfun on May 18, 2016 17:02:34 GMT -5
I think leeann meant to say, " Friday, March 11, 2016 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time until Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time...." Making, this past Tuesday seven weeks after online testing closed. Surly,
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thanks, I totally didn't catch that. BTW, still no results.
Then I'm 5 weeks behind you, so leave a trail of bread crumbs...
You're a week past my guess. Maybe, they wait until the end of the quarter of testing and bring all the vets from the quarter to DC at the same time. Seems like they need enough to get a panel together for the interviewing maybe.
No one has ever discussed the 10 pt vet time line to this detail (as far as I can find on the dos based forum search function). Maybe they take all the April, May, and June vet testers that made it past online testing to DC at the same time, so for some it seems like a long time (April testers) and for others it hits really quick (June testers)...
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Post by Prrple on May 18, 2016 20:00:43 GMT -5
From what I recall, there's no history for how 10-point Veterans are treated during this type of refresh because it hasn't been done in this way before.
I have been following this process since 2013 and all I know of the process from before then is what I've read here and in research on the interwebs. I could have missed something here, and trust those with a longer perspective than mine will speak to the process question
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