Well, I thought I was lucky. When I went to Depot I didn't follow the instructions of the guy at the entrance and ended up in the wrong spot. I was searching all over for the building that I was supposed to be in, finally I had to ask a cadet where the APS building was. He was a nice guy and walked me over to where I was supposed to be.
Once there I started to eye up the other people that were writing the test. "That guy is too much of a punk, that girl is too old." That kind of thought process to build up my own ego. All together there was about 20-25 people writing the test when I was there. We had to wait about 15 minutes while they got the test ready and I sat there and watched the nervous ticks of all the people. Some walked around spinning their keys in their hand some shook their leg up and down while chewing their nails. Meanwhile cadets where coming in and looking at us probably saying "I remember being there." Since it was a Saturday it was pretty quiet, thankfully, not a lot of cadets roaming around.
When we finally got to write the test we went into this lecture hall which instantly reminded me of when I was in the University of Saskatchewan. I always hated the lecture halls there, 200 students and one teacher just never seemed sensible to me. Once in we were given instructions by a Sargent, "Failure to do this will disqualify you." He must of said that about 10 times. Then he said we would have an information session after the test was done.
The RPAT consists of three parts, a memory part, a comprehension part, and a logic part. They give you a book to look at for five minutes and then you have to put it away. Then you do the english comprehension part which lasts about 30 minutes. Then you get to do the memory part, answering questions using the stuff you tried to remember. Then comes the logic part, what would you do type stuff. I can not go into specifics of the test, I signed a form saying that I wouldn't.
I finished the test in about 2 1/2 hours. I had to leave the room and wait about 15 minutes before the time limit was up and everyone not done had to hand in their tests. Then we were all called back in the hall for the information sesssion. I already knew most of the questions there since I grew up in a RCMP member's family. The one question that shocked me was how many members that BC needs. Over 400 new positions alone.
So after that I went home and started the waiting game. Which from what I heard of the process is a long and fustrating game.
