The serious half. Practice material for the EPSO AD5 competition — the thing that actually puts you on a reserve list.
Schuman Roundabout
Round and round, same as the roundabout outside your future office. Keeps going as long as you’re right, gets harder every few correct answers, and one wrong answer sends you straight back to the on-ramp. All ten reasoning families, mixed — this is the abstract reasoning trainer.
Ispra, Italy
Treaties, institutions, procedures and the handful of dates everyone pretends to remember. Forty-five chapters, getting on for five hundred questions.
Where This Comes From
Every source behind the knowledge test on one page, grouped by who publishes it and heaviest first. A hundred links to primary material that used to be handed out one at a time, as a reward for answering something.
Bureaucratese
A hundred pieces of EU jargon, half of them real and half invented five minutes ago. Eight levels, seven out of ten to climb one. It was in the Arcade, which flattered the other nine games: this one has an authored bank and a right answer.
Ten Drills
The ten abstract-reasoning families, one page each, so a single family can be tuned in isolation rather than in the mix. A workbench rather than a destination: once a family is right it belongs in the Roundabout, which is where these are all headed.
Berlaymont Elevators
Seven floors up, one painfully slow lift at a time — abstract, numerical, verbal, then mixed. The levels, the XP and the unlock ladder still need working out, so it is taped off rather than offered half-built.
DG CTRL-ALT-DEL
The Commission’s newest and most chronically-online Directorate-General. Reportedly tests whether you can format a spreadsheet without crying.
European Parliament
Draft a briefing note on a dossier you were handed two weeks ago and are definitely still reading. Under construction, mostly because we are still reading the case file too.