Checked 1 November 2026. Format, timings, tips and criteria are from the official FSAC guide on Civil Service Careers (Written Exercise page last modified 8 October 2026), read on 1 November 2026 for 2027 entry. The older format is from the official 2021 FSAC guide. The worked example and model answers are ours, labelled as ours. The official page says the actual exercise will have different content from its published example.
The Fast Stream Written Exercise is one of the three exercises at the Fast Stream Assessment Centre (FSAC). You play a fast streamer overseeing a project and have 55 minutes to review an information pack and complete 4 written tasks in a Microsoft Word template you receive by email. No specialist knowledge is needed: everything is in the pack. It is marked on the 4D framework (Think, Relate, Adapt, Strive). This guide sets out the official format, then works through a full practice pack of our own, with model answers and what makes them work.
ProSyllabus is an independent study site. It is not part of the Civil Service or the Fast Stream, and our practice material is independent practice, not made or endorsed by the Fast Stream. Quotations of official guidance come from the Civil Service Careers pages listed at the end; every quotation inside our practice pack is invented.
Where other pages get this wrong
In the 2027-entry process the written task is the FSAC Written Exercise: 55 minutes, 4 written tasks, a Word template.
Commonly published instead: that you still sit an e-tray, or a 50-minute written exercise alongside a group exercise and a leadership exercise.
The official 2021 FSAC guide had a 50-minute written exercise with a group exercise and a leadership exercise. The 2027-entry guide lists three exercises (Written Exercise, Oral Briefing Exercise, Personal Development Conversation), and none of the current official stages is called an e-tray.
The Written Exercise at a glance
| Detail | What the official guide says |
|---|---|
| Where it sits | One of the 3 FSAC exercises, at a half-day online assessment centre run from November to February |
| Your role | A fast streamer overseeing a project |
| Time | 55 minutes to review information and complete 4 written tasks |
| How you answer | In a Microsoft Word template sent to you by email; make sure you can get into your email account before you begin |
| Knowledge needed | No specialist knowledge of the policy area; all the information is provided on the day |
| What it looks for | Analysing information critically in its wider context; identifying issues and explaining priorities; communicating clearly and succinctly using the template |
| Marking | The 4D framework: Think, Relate, Adapt, Strive; marked by a different assessor from the other two exercises |
| Link to the Oral Briefing | Shares the same overarching theme as the Oral Briefing Exercise, but the two are marked independently |
| Suggested timing | About 20 minutes reviewing the pack and 35 minutes writing, or whatever works best for you |
One detail to notice: the page says 4 written tasks, but its own example lists three (a recommendation to a minister, an email to a stakeholder, and a social media post). Our suggestion: prepare for four, and practise the kinds of writing in the example; the actual content will differ. Our worked example below sets four.
Written advice exercise, e-tray, written exercise: which name is current?
Candidates search for this exercise under several names, and the official pages themselves use more than one.
| Name you may see | Where it comes from | Is it what you will sit? |
|---|---|---|
| Written Exercise | The name used in the 2027-entry FSAC guide | Yes |
| Written advice exercise | The official Written Exercise page is titled "FSAC – written advice exercise" and its address ends "fsac-written-advice-exercise"; the video on the official Assessment Centre page says the day "will consist of a written advice exercise, a stakeholder communication exercise, and a personal development conversation" | Yes: the official pages use both names for the written task at FSAC |
| E-tray | The old official Fast Stream site had a web address ending "/how-to-use-the-e-tray/" (Internet Archive captures from 2021 to December 2023; what the page said was not archived) | No stage is called an e-tray in the 2027-entry process: the online tests page lists two tests (Work-based scenarios and the Case study assessment; the video on the Assessment Centre page also names Using data), and FSAC has the three exercises |
| Written exercise with a group and a leadership exercise | The official 2021 FSAC guide: a 50-minute written exercise (choose one of two shortlisted options) plus a group exercise and a leadership exercise | No: the 2027-entry guide has no group or leadership exercise |
Our suggestion: check that any practice material matches the current published format, because none of the exercises in the current official lists is called an e-tray. The current shape is a pack of information, a recommendation and messages for different readers.
Practise the online tests: 12 scenarios in the real format
Original scenarios written to the published four-point scale. Rate each action, then see the reason behind every rating. Start with the free one below.
Stage 1 for all of them: the online tests. 2026 intake, GOV.UK recruitment data.
£31,554 starting salary · earning potential of £45,000 to £55,000 after the scheme (Civil Service Careers).
- 12scenarios
- 48actions to rate
- 24case-study situations
- 72answers explained
Every rating comes with its reason, written against the published four-point scale and the Civil Service Code.
FreeTests: Working Together
The figure in the minister's box
Read the situation, then rate each of the 4 actions from Counterproductive to Effective. You then see the right rating and the reason for each. About 3 minutes · free · no sign-in.
You are a policy officer working on a joint briefing with a partner team. At noon, Grace, who leads the partner team, sent the finished briefing to the minister's private office. It goes into the minister's box at 5pm, ready for a radio interview tomorrow morning. At 1pm you notice that the paragraph on rural households, which you wrote, still says 120,000 households. Your team corrected that figure to 80,000 last week, and the version Grace sent was taken before the correction. Grace starts two weeks' leave at 2pm today. Her deputy, James, is in the office all afternoon and can send material to private office. Only that one paragraph is affected.
Opens when you unlock all
- An error in your figures · Managing a Quality Service
- A colleague falling behind · Developing Self and Others
- Legal advice missing overnight · Making Effective Decisions
- A spreadsheet for the train · Managing a Quality Service
- An angry trade association · Communicating and Influencing
- A quiet voice in meetings · Working Together
- A vague request in passing · Communicating and Influencing
- Leaving a post on Friday · Managing a Quality Service
- Testing dropped to hit launch · Making Effective Decisions
- Data promised by another department · Working Together
- Spending the underspend · Managing a Quality Service
- Case study: Open Door Hubs: a practice Case Study · 7 background documents, 24 situations
- 11 more work-based scenarios with 44 actions to rate on the four-point scale
- A full case study: 7 background documents and 24 situations, in order
- The reason behind every rating, so you learn the scale and not the answers
- Your rating pattern: whether you mark too generously or too harshly, and what to fix
- Same length as the real tests: 12 scenarios and 24 situations
Independent practice material. Not written or endorsed by the Civil Service; the real tests use video and no answer key is published beyond the one worked example. For 2027 entry the real Case Study mixes two answer types; this set practises both: four-point ratings in the scenarios, most and least effective in the case study.
What the assessors are looking for
The official page lists what a good candidate response looks like. In its own words, kept short:
| Official point | What it means in practice (our reading) |
|---|---|
| Write in a clear manner | Easy to follow, with minimal spelling and grammar errors. Leave two minutes to read your work back. |
| Tailor your tone and style to fit the specific stakeholders | A minister gets a decision and reasons; an unhappy stakeholder gets acknowledgement and reassurance; the public gets plain words. |
| Address stakeholder concerns directly | Name each concern from their letter and answer it, rather than restating your recommendation. |
| Make explicit confident recommendations | Say which option, in the first line, and why. "Both have merits" is not a recommendation. |
| Reference the Government's key objectives | Tie each reason to an objective in the pack, by name. |
Underneath sit the 4D dimensions, which the Written Exercise page describes like this:
| Dimension | On the Written Exercise page |
|---|---|
| Think | How you gather, process and analyse information: looking beyond the immediate task, noticing patterns and how ideas connect, considering the wider impact |
| Relate | Interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence: communicating effectively, valuing diverse perspectives |
| Adapt | Flexibility and learning agility: applying new information quickly and suggesting fresh approaches |
| Strive | Drive and values: resilience and commitment to owning your work |
Two official tips are easy to miss. Use the materials provided: focus on the scenario in the brief and try not to use external knowledge or real-world issues and developments (our reading: the pack is your evidence, so build every point on it). And be clear: bullet points and short paragraphs are welcome, because, in the page's words, "your goal is to inform and influence the reader".
A worked example: the full pack
Below is a complete practice pack of our own, in the shape of the official example: a role, background, two options, a results table, objectives, a minister, a stakeholder with concerns, a survey and social media. Set the timer and try it before you read the model answers.
55-minute Written Exercise timer, with a task-by-task split
The official tips suggest about 20 minutes reviewing the pack and 35 minutes writing, "whatever works best for you". The split of the writing time between the four tasks below is our suggestion. Use it with the worked example on this page or with the official example.
- Read the pack and plan: 20 minutes
- Task 1: recommendation to the Minister: 13 minutes
- Task 2: email to the stakeholder: 10 minutes
- Task 3: social media post: 5 minutes
- Task 4: lines to take, then a final check: 7 minutes
The 55 minutes is the official limit. The timer runs in your browser and stores nothing.
Practice pack (ours, not the Fast Stream's)
Fly-tipping on Hartsdale's country roads
Your role. You are a new fast streamer in the Department for Rural Communities, overseeing the Cleaner Countryside project. Hartsdale is an invented county, and every place, person, organisation and figure in this pack is invented for practice.
Background. Fly-tipping, dumping rubbish illegally, is rising on Hartsdale's country roads. Councils clear tipping from roads and lay-bys; farmers and other landowners must clear and pay for tipping on their own land. Two 12-month pilots ran from April 2025 to March 2026, each in a district of about 40,000 households. Option A, Catch and Fine (Eastvale): hidden mobile cameras at 20 hotspot lay-bys and higher fines. Option B, Free Bulky Collection (Westbrook): every household can book one free collection a year of up to three bulky items, such as a sofa or a mattress, online or by phone. Councils in both districts kept their usual enforcement. The Minister for Rural Communities wants a recommendation on which option, if either, to roll out across the county from April 2027. Details of any county scheme would be on each council's website.
Your tasks (55 minutes in all):
- Make a recommendation in writing to the Minister for Rural Communities on which option, if either, to roll out, and why.
- Write an email to Owen Price, Chair of the Hartsdale Farmers' Network, explaining your recommendation and addressing the concerns in his letter (Item 4).
- Assume the Minister accepts your recommendation. Write a social media post for Hartsdale residents about the scheme.
- On the same assumption, write three lines to take for the Minister's press office.
Item 1. Pilot results
| Measure | A: Catch and Fine (Eastvale) | B: Free Bulky Collection (Westbrook) |
|---|---|---|
| Fly-tipping incidents at the pilot sites, year before | 1,200 | 1,000 |
| Fly-tipping incidents at the pilot sites, pilot year | 960 | 700 |
| Of which trade waste (rubble, commercial waste), year before → pilot year | 400 → 240 | 260 → 250 |
| Incidents on nearby roads outside the pilot sites, year before → pilot year | 300 → 390 | 210 → 205 |
| Yearly running cost | £180,000 | £260,000 |
| Money in or out | £45,000 collected in fines | Council loses £60,000 a year it used to charge for bulky-waste collections |
| Other results | 38 prosecutions, 30 of them for trade waste | 6,000 free collections booked; 1 in 4 by households without a car |
Neither pilot counted tipping on private land.
Item 2. The Department's objectives for a county scheme
- Reduce fly-tipping overall, not move it from one road to another.
- Value for money for the taxpayer.
- Be fair to households on low incomes and those without a car.
- Ease the clean-up burden on rural communities and landowners.
Item 3. Summary of a speech by the Minister for Rural Communities
"Fly-tipping is a blight on our countryside. I want people who dump waste for profit to be caught and punished, and I want it to be easier for everyone else to do the right thing."
Item 4. Letter from Owen Price, Chair of the Hartsdale Farmers' Network
"Our members pay thousands every year to clear other people's rubbish from their land. Since the cameras went up on the Eastvale lay-bys, the tipping has moved to our field gateways. Most of what we find is builders' rubble dumped by people paid to take it away. A free sofa collection will not stop them. We want the people doing this prosecuted, and we want to know who will help us clear our land."
Item 5. Note from the Hartsdale Council Leaders' Group
"Councils would run free collections county-wide only if the Department pays for the collections and for the charges we would no longer collect."
Item 6. Residents' survey
In Westbrook, 7 in 10 households that used a free collection said they would otherwise have kept the items or "found another way" to get rid of them. In Eastvale, 52% of residents supported the cameras and 18% were worried about privacy.
Item 7. Social media reactions
Mixed: "Why is the taxpayer paying to collect my neighbour's old sofa?"; "The cameras just catch the odd van"; "Free collection was brilliant. I don't have a car, so I couldn't take my old mattress to the tip."
Our own pack, built on the shape of the official example (a role, background, several options, a table, objectives, a minister, a stakeholder with concerns, survey and social media views). It is not official content and not a past paper.
Step 1: reading the pack in 20 minutes
A method for the reading time (our suggestion): read the tasks first so you know what you are reading for, then give each item one line of notes against the objectives.
| Item | What it tells you | Use it in |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pilot results | B cuts incidents at its sites by 30%, A by 20%. But A's nearby roads rose from 300 to 390 | Task 1 (the main evidence), Task 2 |
| 2. Objectives | Overall reduction (not displacement), value for money, fairness, landowners' burden | Task 1: one reason per objective |
| 3. Minister | Two aims: catch those who dump for profit, and make the right thing easy | Task 1 risks, Task 4 |
| 4. Farmers' Network | Displacement onto field gateways; trade rubble; wants prosecutions and help with clearing | Task 2: answer each point |
| 5. Council leaders | B needs the Department to fund collections and the lost charges | Task 1 cost and risk |
| 6. Survey | Most B users would otherwise have kept the items or "found another way"; some privacy worry about A | Task 1 (supporting), Task 3 |
| 7. Social media | Cost-to-taxpayer objection; praise from a resident without a car | Task 3 tone, Task 4 |
The calculation that decides it
The headline numbers favour B (30% against 20%), but the objective says reduce fly-tipping overall, not move it. Add the monitored nearby roads and the gap widens:
| Option | Pilot sites + nearby roads, year before | Pilot sites + nearby roads, pilot year | Observed fall | Net yearly cost | Cost per incident of observed fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: Catch and Fine | 1,200 + 300 = 1,500 | 960 + 390 = 1,350 | 150 (10%) | £180,000 − £45,000 fines = £135,000 | About £900 |
| B: Free Bulky Collection | 1,000 + 210 = 1,210 | 700 + 205 = 905 | 305 (about 25%) | £260,000 + £60,000 lost charges = £320,000 | About £1,049 |
Invented figures from our practice pack, Item 1. A's 20% fall at its own sites shrinks to 10% once the rise on nearby roads is counted. Before-and-after figures from one year show what was observed, not proof of cause.
That is the kind of pattern the Think dimension describes: looking beyond the first table and noticing how the pieces connect. B costs about £150 more per incident of observed fall, but its observed fall is roughly twice as large, and its nearby roads did not rise (210 to 205), while A's rose from 300 to 390, which suggests tipping moved. Neither pilot counted private land, so farmers' reports of field gateways are not in the figures. A has a strength too: trade waste at its sites fell from 400 to 240 and it brought 30 trade-waste prosecutions, while B barely touched trade waste (260 to 250). A strong answer says both things.
Step 2: the model answers
Model answers of our own for the pack above, at a length you could write in 35 minutes. Yours will differ; what matters is the shape.
Task 1: recommendation to the Minister (model answer, ours)
Recommendation: roll out Option B, Free Bulky Collection, across Hartsdale from April 2027, with the Department funding the collections and the councils' lost charges. Alongside it, ask councils to point their existing enforcement at trade-waste hotspots, including the field gateways farmers report.
Reasons
- It recorded the larger overall fall. Across the pilot sites and the monitored nearby roads, incidents fell by about 25% under B (1,210 to 905) against 10% under A (1,500 to 1,350). Incidents at A's camera lay-bys fell by 20%, but on nearby roads they rose by 30%, which suggests much of the fall was moved rather than stopped.
- It is reasonable value for money. B cost about £1,049 per incident of observed fall against about £900 for A, but its fall was twice as large (305 incidents against 150).
- It is fair. One in four free collections was booked by a household without a car, and most users would otherwise have kept the items or "found another way" to get rid of them.
Risks and how to manage them
- Trade waste. Trade-waste incidents at B's sites changed little (260 to 250), while at A's sites they fell from 400 to 240 and brought 30 trade-waste prosecutions. Catching those who dump for profit is one of your aims, so councils' existing enforcement should focus on trade-waste hotspots, and we should report trade waste separately.
- Cost to councils. Councils will only take part if we fund collections and the £60,000-a-year lost charges in a district like Westbrook. The budget should cover both from the start.
- Evidence. These were one-year pilots in two different districts, so the figures show what was observed, not proof of cause, and neither counted private land. We should count incidents on nearby roads and private land in the first year of the roll-out and review the scheme after 12 months.
Why it works: The decision is in the first line. Each reason is tied to a named objective from Item 2. It uses the pack's numbers, including the displacement the headline hides (Think). It is honest about A's strength on trade waste, with the figures, and turns that into a risk with a fix (Adapt). The Minister's own two aims from Item 3 are both answered.
Task 2: email to Owen Price, Hartsdale Farmers' Network (model answer, ours)
Subject: Fly-tipping on farmland: our recommendation and your concerns
Dear Mr Price,
Thank you for your letter. I understand that your members are paying to clear rubbish they did not leave, and that since the Eastvale cameras went up some of it has moved to field gateways. The pilot figures support what you describe: tipping on roads near the camera sites rose by 30%, although the pilots did not count tipping on private land.
That is one reason I have recommended free bulky-waste collections for the county. In its pilot, fly-tipping at the pilot sites and on nearby roads fell by about a quarter, and tipping on nearby roads did not rise.
You also raised builders' rubble. In the pilot, trade-waste incidents changed little where free collections were offered, so on their own they do not answer your concern. I have therefore recommended that councils point their enforcement at trade-waste hotspots, including field gateways. Your members' reports of where tipping happens would help them do that, and I would welcome a list of the worst sites.
On clearing private land, I will raise your members' costs with the Minister and come back to you on what help is possible.
Yours sincerely,
Cleaner Countryside project
Why it works: It opens by showing it understood his views and admits the displacement he reported, using the pack's figure (Relate). It answers each of his three points: displacement, trade rubble, help with clearing. On clearing land it promises only what a fast streamer can promise, to raise it and reply, because the pack offers no clearing fund.
Task 3: social media post for residents (model answer, ours)
Got an old sofa or mattress you can't get rid of? From April 2027, every household in Hartsdale can book one free collection a year of up to three bulky items, online or by phone. No car needed. Help keep our country roads clear of dumped rubbish. Details on your council's website.
Why it works: Short, plain and about what the reader gets. It answers the "no car" point from Item 7 without arguing with anyone, and it sends readers to the council websites the pack names, rather than inventing a web address or a phone number.
Task 4: lines to take for the press office (model answer, ours)
- Fly-tipping is a blight on our countryside, and we are making it easier for everyone to do the right thing: from April 2027, every household in Hartsdale can book a free collection of bulky items.
- In the pilot, fly-tipping fell by about a quarter where free collections were offered, counting nearby roads too.
- People who dump waste for profit are in our sights: we are asking councils to focus their enforcement on trade-waste hotspots.
Why it works: Three lines, each one sentence, in the Minister's own framing from Item 3, written on the task's assumption that the recommendation is accepted. The cost question from Item 7 is the one most likely to come up; a fuller brief would add a line ready for it.
Mistakes that cost marks (our view)
What weaker answers tend to do
- Take the headline figure. Quoting "30% against 20%" and stopping misses the displacement that decides the case. Read every row of a table, and check whether a result was achieved or just moved.
- Sit on the fence. The official page asks for "explicit confident recommendations". Pick one option, then manage its weaknesses as risks.
- Repeat the recommendation to the stakeholder. The email is marked on whether you address their concerns directly: answer each point in their letter.
- Bring in the real world. The official tip is to focus on the scenario and not use outside knowledge. If the pack gives no figure or web address, do not invent one.
- Run out of time on the last task. Four tasks in 35 minutes of writing means a plan. A short last task beats a blank one.
- Write one tone for everyone. A minister, an unhappy farmer and the public need different words: that is the "tailor your tone and style" point.
Our view from the official criteria; the official page does not publish a marking scheme.
How to prepare in the weeks before FSAC
The official page says you do not need to prepare extensively, because everything is provided on the day, and suggests ways to get familiar with the format. They are, in short: review the official example; practise identifying the main risks and goals in news articles or reports within 55 minutes; look at project plans or team surveys to see how information fits together; practise changing your style for different audiences; and get feedback on your writing from several people.
A practice plan (our suggestion)
- Week 1. Do the official example on Civil Service Careers under the timer above, then mark yourself against the five points under "What does a good candidate response look like?".
- Week 2. Do our worked example cold, without reading the model answers, then compare. Rewrite the weakest task.
- Week 3. Two timed packs a week. Each time, write the recommendation's first line within 25 minutes of starting.
- The last few days. Check you can open a Word file sent to your email on the laptop you will use, and have paper, pens and a calculator ready, as the official guide suggests.
Our suggestion, built on the official preparation advice.
Two rules from the official pages. You may use Gen AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini to prepare, including feedback on practice answers, but you must not use them during the tests or assessments, and an application may be withdrawn if that is suspected. And if you need an adjustment such as extra time to read or write, or larger text for the materials, the reasonable adjustments page says FSAC adjustments are requested when you submit your application; the FSAC guide adds that they must be agreed in advance and cannot be granted on the day.
After the exercise
The three exercises are marked by different assessors, so the Written Exercise is judged on its own. Whether you pass or not, you receive a performance report with your scores on each exercise, a description of what a high-performing response looks like and some development tips. The official guide says to save or screenshot it, because the report is removed at the end of May 2027 and cannot be requested afterwards.
The rest of the day is covered in our Fast Stream assessment centre (FSAC) guide, with the Oral Briefing Exercise and the Personal Development Conversation interview questions in their own guides.
Practise the Written Exercise with marking
Our Fast Stream Written Exercise practice gives you a full pack and the 4-task template on a 55-minute clock, then marks what you wrote and shows what to fix, so you can rewrite it. The packs are new: none of them is the worked example on this page. To rehearse the whole day, the Assessment Centre Mock Day runs the Written Exercise, the Oral Briefing and the Personal Development Conversation in order, with one report at the end.
See the Written Exercise practice · See the Mock Day, with a free 4-minute taster. Independent practice; not made or endorsed by the Fast Stream.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Fast Stream Written Exercise?
One of the three exercises at the Fast Stream Assessment Centre. You play a fast streamer overseeing a project, review an information pack and complete 4 written tasks in 55 minutes, in a Microsoft Word template sent to you by email. It is marked on the 4D framework: Think, Relate, Adapt and Strive.
Is the written advice exercise the same as the Written Exercise?
Yes. The 2027-entry FSAC guide calls it the Written Exercise, while the same official page is titled "FSAC – written advice exercise", its address uses that name, and the video on the official Assessment Centre page calls it a written advice exercise.
Is there still an e-tray exercise in the Fast Stream?
Not under that name. The old official Fast Stream site had a web address ending "/how-to-use-the-e-tray/", but in the 2027-entry process the online tests page lists Work-based scenarios and the Case study assessment, and the assessment centre has the Written Exercise, the Oral Briefing Exercise and the Personal Development Conversation.
Is there still a group exercise or a leadership exercise at FSAC?
No. The official 2021 FSAC guide had a written exercise, a group exercise and a leadership exercise. The 2027-entry guide lists three exercises: the Written Exercise, the Oral Briefing Exercise and the Personal Development Conversation.
How long is the Fast Stream Written Exercise?
55 minutes to review the information and complete 4 written tasks. The official tips suggest about 20 minutes reviewing the pack and 35 minutes writing, or whatever works best for you.
What kind of tasks are in the Written Exercise?
The official example sets a written recommendation to a minister on which option, if any, to pursue and why; an email to a stakeholder that explains the recommendation and addresses their concerns; and a social media post advertising the benefits of the project to young people. The page says the real exercise has 4 tasks and different content.
Do I need policy knowledge for the Written Exercise?
No. The official page says you do not need specialist knowledge of the policy area and that all the information is provided on the day. It also advises focusing on the scenario and not using external knowledge or real-world developments.
Can I use bullet points?
Yes. The official tips say to use bullet points and short paragraphs to get your point across.
Is the Written Exercise linked to the Oral Briefing Exercise?
They share the same overarching theme, but the official guide says the exercises are marked independently, each by a different assessor.
Can I use ChatGPT or another AI tool to prepare?
To prepare, yes: the official Gen AI guidance allows it, including for feedback on practice answers. During the tests and assessments, no; if use is suspected, an application may be withdrawn.
Sources
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, Written Exercise (format, what is assessed, how to prepare, tips, the official example and what a good response looks like; read 1 Nov 2026)
- official — Civil Service Careers: Fast Stream Assessment Centre guide (about the FSAC, the three exercises)
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, The assessments
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, What is assessed and how to prepare (4D framework, assessors, tips)
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, Tasks to complete in advance (briefing email, IT checks, adjustments)
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, Attending the virtual FSAC (November to February, what to have on your desk)
- official — Civil Service Careers: FSAC guide, After the FSAC (feedback report)
- official — Civil Service Careers: Assessment Centre page and its video transcript
- official — Civil Service Careers: Fast Stream online tests (2 tests: Work-based scenarios and Case study assessment)
- official — Civil Service Careers: Guidance on the use of Generative AI in the Fast Stream process
- official — Civil Service Careers: Fast Stream reasonable adjustments
- official — Fast Stream: Fast Stream Assessment Centre (FSAC) guide 2021, the older format (Internet Archive copy of 22 Oct 2023)
- official — Fast Stream (old site): web address ending /how-to-use-the-e-tray/, Internet Archive captures from 2021 to December 2023 (page content not archived)
official = a document published by the conducting body. reported = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.
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