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There was a problem with one of the Multiple-Choice-questions for my open competition, what can I do?

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Should you have a serious doubt about the content of a test question, please contact us only via the EPSO website (Candidate Contact Service) within 3 calendar days of the date of your MCQ tests, by describing what the question was about (content) in order to identify the question(s) concerned and explain the nature of the alleged error as clearly as possible. Please also mention your candidate number (see the respective Annex of the Notice of competition).

If an identified question does not comply with EPSO´s strict quality criteria despite thorough quality controls in place, the corrective measures are as follows:

  • The question will be corrected or taken out of the database
  • The question will be cancelled (“neutralised”) and the points are redistributed among the remaining questions of the test
  • Only those candidates who received the question(s) concerned will be affected by the recalculation.
  • The scoring of the tests remains as indicated in the relevant sections of the notice of competition.