Post by Orly on Feb 28, 2009 0:40:55 GMT -5
Dear ALJ Applicant,
You recently received a Notice of Results (NOR) indicating that you had successfully completed all parts of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) examination and that your name and final numerical rating would be placed on the current ALJ register being maintained by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The purpose of this notice is to provide a brief explanation to help you understand how the ALJ final numerical ratings were calculated.
As stated in the vacancy announcement, the purpose of the ALJ examination is to evaluate applicants on the competencies essential to the work of an ALJ.
For the Accomplishment Record (AR), applicants provided written statements of their accomplishments, which were scored. All applicants were ranked based on their AR scores, including any applicable veterans' preference points. The applicants who were among the highest group of AR scores from all eligible applicants were identified and moved on to the next stages of the assessment process.
Because your AR score was among the highest group of AR scores, you were invited to participate in the Written Demonstration (WD) and Structured Interview (SI) portions of the ALJ assessment. The competencies measured in the AR, the WD, and the SI were combined to determine a total competency score.
For this step, any veterans' preference points added to the AR score (as discussed in the previous paragraph) were not included; instead veterans' preference points were added to the numerical rating at the end of the scoring process, as indicated below. To compute this total competency score, the following steps were taken: . The competencies were made equal in importance, so that each competency carried equal weight, . The points earned on each competency were added together to determine the total competency scores for each applicant, and . The total competency scores of all applicants were put on a 1 to 100 scale to establish each applicant's numerical rating, excluding veterans' preference.
In this scale, the lowest possible score is 1 and the highest possible score is 100. This numerical rating, plus any applicable veterans' preference points, is the final numerical rating noted on the NOR. Every applicant on the register has already exceeded an initial cut-off score because OPM identified the highest scored applicants after rating the AR. Therefore, OPM did not employ any subsequent screen-out or passing score when adding new names to the current ALJ register.
As stated on the NOR, your name will be placed on the current register in rank order based on your final numerical rating. This list will be used as a source of names to make referrals to agencies for employment consideration. We hope this information is helpful to you.
Sincerely,
The Administrative Law Judge Examining Office
You recently received a Notice of Results (NOR) indicating that you had successfully completed all parts of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) examination and that your name and final numerical rating would be placed on the current ALJ register being maintained by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The purpose of this notice is to provide a brief explanation to help you understand how the ALJ final numerical ratings were calculated.
As stated in the vacancy announcement, the purpose of the ALJ examination is to evaluate applicants on the competencies essential to the work of an ALJ.
For the Accomplishment Record (AR), applicants provided written statements of their accomplishments, which were scored. All applicants were ranked based on their AR scores, including any applicable veterans' preference points. The applicants who were among the highest group of AR scores from all eligible applicants were identified and moved on to the next stages of the assessment process.
Because your AR score was among the highest group of AR scores, you were invited to participate in the Written Demonstration (WD) and Structured Interview (SI) portions of the ALJ assessment. The competencies measured in the AR, the WD, and the SI were combined to determine a total competency score.
For this step, any veterans' preference points added to the AR score (as discussed in the previous paragraph) were not included; instead veterans' preference points were added to the numerical rating at the end of the scoring process, as indicated below. To compute this total competency score, the following steps were taken: . The competencies were made equal in importance, so that each competency carried equal weight, . The points earned on each competency were added together to determine the total competency scores for each applicant, and . The total competency scores of all applicants were put on a 1 to 100 scale to establish each applicant's numerical rating, excluding veterans' preference.
In this scale, the lowest possible score is 1 and the highest possible score is 100. This numerical rating, plus any applicable veterans' preference points, is the final numerical rating noted on the NOR. Every applicant on the register has already exceeded an initial cut-off score because OPM identified the highest scored applicants after rating the AR. Therefore, OPM did not employ any subsequent screen-out or passing score when adding new names to the current ALJ register.
As stated on the NOR, your name will be placed on the current register in rank order based on your final numerical rating. This list will be used as a source of names to make referrals to agencies for employment consideration. We hope this information is helpful to you.
Sincerely,
The Administrative Law Judge Examining Office
