Bagaimana ejen insurans dibayar: had komisen BNM bagi insurans hayat dan am, bahagian Balanced Scorecard, contoh anggaran pendapatan tahun pertama, kos untuk bermula dan langkah PCE.

Gaji Ejen Insurans di Malaysia 2026: Komisen, Realiti dan Langkah PCE

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PCE insurans (PCEIA) daripada halaman Aii: Route A, B dan C, buku teks edisi ke-10, pendaftaran iLMS, yuran, markah lulus 50%, menduduki semula dan bayaran balik. In English below.

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Dua contoh soalan PCE insurans dengan jawapan dan penerangan, bilangan soalan dan masa bagi Route A, B dan C seperti diterbitkan oleh Aii, dan cara menjawab soalan senario.

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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 2 November 2026.</strong> Stage dates and wording are as NATS’s careers page stated them on 2 November 2026. NATS’s careers page gives no syllabus, sample questions or pass mark for its knowledge tests, so the questions here are our own practice on aviation fundamentals. CAA documents are revised from time to time; the editions read are named under Sources.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>The short answer:</strong> NATS’s careers page gives no sample questions, syllabus or pass mark for the Air Traffic Control knowledge test it sets at Stage 3, or for “ATC Knowledge Test part 2” at Stage 4, so that page offers nothing to check practice questions against. What you can practise is the aviation vocabulary of air traffic control, and below are two worked practice questions of ours, a METAR to decode and a radio readback to check, each answered and traced to the CAA or Met Office document it comes from.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Checked 2 November 2026 against the NATS careers page and the CAA and Met Office documents listed under Sources. ProSyllabus is an independent study site, not part of NATS or the Civil Aviation Authority. The two questions below are our own, written for practice; they are not NATS questions and NATS has not seen or approved them. Facts about NATS come from its careers page; aviation facts come from the CAA and Met Office documents listed under Sources. Our own advice is marked as ours.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Stage 3</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">virtual assessment centre on Microsoft Teams: interview, ATC knowledge test, observed retest; from September 2026</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Stage 4</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">practical exercise and ATC Knowledge Test part 2, on Teams or at NATS’s Whiteley office; from December 2026</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">2</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">worked practice questions on this page, each with its answer, reasoning and CAA or Met Office source</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Next campaign</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">is when you can reapply if you do not pass a stage, NATS says</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">NATS, Training to be an Air Traffic Controller, read 2 Nov 2026.</p>

What NATS says about the knowledge test, and what it does not

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Everything in the left column is NATS’s own wording or a close summary of it, from its trainee controller careers page as read on 2 November 2026. The right column is what that page leaves out, so you know which claims elsewhere cannot be checked against NATS.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Because NATS’s careers page gives no syllabus, the topics we practise are our choice: the fundamentals set out in public CAA manuals. Our reasoning, and a topic-by-topic summary, is in our guide <a href="/hub/nats-atc-knowledge-test-what-to-study" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS ATC knowledge test: what to study</a>. This page is the practice that goes with it.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Revise the fundamentals on seven pages</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Our <a href="/kits/nats-atc-knowledge-test-revision-kit" data-cta="nats-a-inline-kit" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS ATC Knowledge Test Revision Kit</a> covers the topics these questions come from: airspace classes, altimetry (QNH, QFE, flight levels and the transition), METAR and TAF, CAP 413 radio basics and UK wake turbulence categories, drawing on CAA documents and the Met Office decode sheet, with a 40-question self-test and every answer. Page 1 is free to read in full.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Preparing for Stage 2 as well? The <a href="/kits/nats-air-traffic-controller-practice-bundle" data-cta="nats-a-inline-bundle" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS practice bundle</a> adds our Stage 2 listening and judgement practice test and our interview preparation to the kit, for less than the kit and the Stage 2 test cost separately.</p><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Independent practice by ProSyllabus, not made, endorsed or reviewed by NATS or the CAA. NATS’s careers page gives no syllabus; the choice of topics is ours.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Each question has four options and one correct answer. Read the question, choose your answer before you open the reveal, then compare your reasoning with ours. The explanation names the paragraph or table it relies on, so you can check it in the source rather than take our word for it. The aerodrome code, the callsign and the weather in both questions are made up; real aerodromes and airlines are not used.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">A METAR is a routine report of the weather actually observed at an aerodrome. Controllers pass parts of it to pilots, so being able to read one group by group is basic vocabulary. The Met Office publishes a decode sheet for every group used below.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Worked question 1: which cloud layer matters?</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">A made-up aerodrome reports:</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-family:ui-monospace,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;background:#f6f4ee;padding:10px 12px;border-radius:8px;line-height:1.6">METAR EGXX 021050Z 25012G24KT 4500 -SHRA SCT008 BKN014CB 09/07 Q0996</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Which statement about the cloud is correct?</p><ol style="margin:8px 0 12px;padding-left:4px;list-style:none"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>A.</strong> There is broken cloud with its base at 800 ft above the aerodrome.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>B.</strong> The lowest cloud covering more than half of the sky is cumulonimbus with its base at 1,400 ft above the aerodrome.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>C.</strong> The cumulonimbus base is 1,400 ft above mean sea level.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>D.</strong> BKN014CB means one to two eighths of cumulonimbus at 14,000 ft.</li></ol><details style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding-top:10px"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45">Show the answer and why</summary><p style="margin:10px 0 8px;line-height:1.65"><strong>Answer: B</strong></p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Cloud groups are written as an amount, a height and, for the two cloud types reported, a type. The Met Office decode gives the amounts in oktas, eighths of the sky: FEW is 1 to 2, SCT (scattered) 3 to 4, BKN (broken) 5 to 7, and OVC overcast. Heights are in hundreds of feet, and the decode says cloud heights are “given in feet above airfield height”, not above sea level.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">So SCT008 is 3 to 4 oktas with its base at 800 ft: not more than half the sky, which rules out A. BKN014CB is 5 to 7 oktas of cumulonimbus (CB) with its base at 1,400 ft above the aerodrome, which is B. C uses the wrong datum, and D reads BKN as FEW and the height as thousands instead of hundreds.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">The rest of the report, decoded the same way: issued on the 2nd at 1050 UTC (the Z); wind from 250 degrees true at 12 knots, with a maximum of 24; prevailing visibility 4,500 metres; light rain showers (“-” is light, SH showers, RA rain); temperature 9 °C and dew point 7 °C; QNH 996 hectopascals.</p><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Source: Met Office, Aerodrome Actual Weather: METAR decode (wind, visibility, present weather, cloud, temperature and QNH groups).</p></details></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Our tip: decode the cloud groups first and say each one aloud as amount, height, type. Check the height unit (hundreds of feet) and the datum (above the aerodrome) every time.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">CAP 413, the CAA’s radiotelephony manual, lists the instructions a pilot must read back in full, and says why the rule is strict: the stringency of the readback requirement “is directly related to the possible seriousness of a misunderstanding.” Spotting a gap in a readback is one of the habits controller training builds.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Worked question 2: is this readback complete?</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">A controller transmits: <em>“Redwing 418, descend to altitude 3,000 feet, QNH 996 hectopascals.”</em></p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">The pilot replies: <em>“Descend to altitude 3,000 feet, Redwing 418.”</em></p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Under CAP 413, which statement is correct?</p><ol style="margin:8px 0 12px;padding-left:4px;list-style:none"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>A.</strong> The readback is complete: only the level instruction has to be read back.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>B.</strong> The readback is incomplete: the altimeter setting must be read back in full, with “hectopascals” because it is below 1000.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>C.</strong> The readback is incomplete only because the callsign should come before the instruction.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>D.</strong> The pilot should have replied “WILCO” instead of repeating the level.</li></ol><details style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding-top:10px"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45">Show the answer and why</summary><p style="margin:10px 0 8px;line-height:1.65"><strong>Answer: B</strong></p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">CAP 413 paragraph 2.69 lists the messages a pilot reads back in full. They include level instructions and “Altimeter Settings, including units when value is below 1000 hectopascals”. The pilot read back the level but left out the QNH, so the readback is incomplete, and A is wrong. Paragraph 3.4 is why the controller gave the units in the first place: the word ‘hectopascal’ is appended to any pressure setting below 1000 hPa (CAP 413’s own phraseology examples say “hectopascals”), so QNH 996 is read back with its units.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">C is wrong because CAP 413 paragraph 2.68 requires a readback to include the callsign, and this one does; CAP 413’s own examples put the callsign at the end of the pilot’s readback, as here. D is wrong because WILCO, which CAP 413 defines as “I understand your message and will comply with it”, does not replace the readback of items on the paragraph 2.69 list.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">What happens next? Paragraph 2.69 says that if a readback is not received, the pilot will be instructed to give it. If a pilot reads an item back wrongly, paragraph 2.71 says the controller transmits “NEGATIVE” followed by the correct version.</p><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Source: CAA CAP 413 Edition 24, Chapter 2 paragraphs 2.68, 2.69 and 2.71; Chapter 3 paragraph 3.4.</p></details></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Our tip: learn the paragraph 2.69 list as a set, then practise saying an instruction and its correct readback aloud. Remember to include the units for pressure settings below 1000 hPa.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Read page 1 of the revision kit free</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">Want to go further before you buy anything? Page 1 of our <a href="/kits/nats-atc-knowledge-test-revision-kit" data-cta="nats-a-page1-kit" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS ATC Knowledge Test Revision Kit</a> is free to read in full: Stages 3 and 4 as NATS describes them, what NATS says about the observed retest, and our checklist for a virtual assessment day on Microsoft Teams. The other six pages cover the fundamentals and end in the 40-question self-test.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The two questions above are free. The kit’s self-test is longer and quicker-fire: 40 short questions across five areas, with every answer at the foot and a pointer back to the page that explains it. This is how its questions are spread.</p>

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Questions per area in the kit’s 40-question self-test</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Airspace</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">8</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:80.0%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Altimetry</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">7</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:70.0%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Weather, runways and wind</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">10</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Radio (CAP 413)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">9</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:90.0%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Time, wake turbulence and NATS</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">6</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:60.0%;height:12px;background:#5b6472;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Source: the self-test on page 7 of our NATS ATC Knowledge Test Revision Kit. The spread is our choice of emphasis, not a NATS weighting: NATS’s careers page gives no syllabus or topic weights.</p></figure>

How to use practice questions well (our advice)

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Practice questions are most useful as a check on understanding, not as something to memorise. Since NATS’s careers page gives no questions, a remembered answer is worth little; knowing why the answer is right is what carries over to a question worded differently. Our suggestions:</p>

<ul style="margin:0 0 16px;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Answer before you look. Commit to an option, then open the reveal; a guess you check teaches more than an answer you read.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Trace every miss to its source. Each explanation names the CAA or Met Office paragraph; read the paragraph, not only our summary.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Say radio phrases aloud. Readbacks, numbers and units are spoken skills, and a written answer can hide a spoken mistake.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Mix the topics. Once each area feels familiar, shuffle them so you practise switching between airspace, weather and radio.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Follow a plan. Our <a href="/hub/nats-atc-knowledge-test-what-to-study" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">two-week plan for the knowledge test</a> gives the order we suggest, with a self-test in the last days.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Keep the earlier stages warm. NATS says Stage 3 includes “a retest of the previous tests whilst being observed”, without naming which, so our advice is to keep practising the kinds of task you met at Stages 1 and 2.</li></ul>

A word on question banks you find elsewhere

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Search results for the NATS knowledge test include flashcard decks and question lists made by other users and by prep companies. NATS’s careers page gives no knowledge test questions, so none of them can be checked against that page, whatever they are called. Our advice is to judge any practice material by one test: does each answer point to a source you can open and read? If it does, it can teach you something true about air traffic control, whether or not NATS asks it. That is the standard we hold our own questions to.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The knowledge tests come late. NATS’s process has four stages: eleven online ability tests at Stage 1, then a situational judgement test and a listening comprehension test at Stage 2, then the Stage 3 assessment centre and, at Stage 4, a practical exercise and ATC Knowledge Test part 2. Our overview of every stage, with eligibility and pay, is in <a href="/hub/nats-trainee-air-traffic-controller-application-and-assessment-stages" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS trainee air traffic controller: stages and eligibility</a>. If you are still at Stage 2, read <a href="/hub/nats-stage-2-listening-comprehension-and-situational-judgement-test" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">our Stage 2 listening and SJT guide</a> and try our <a href="/kits/nats-stage-2-practice-test" data-cta="nats-a-stage2-kit" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS Stage 2 practice test</a>.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">We have no Stage 1 practice pack. NATS describes the skills its eleven Stage 1 ability tests assess, such as spatial awareness, logical thinking, numerical ability, sense of direction and reaction speed, but its careers page does not name or describe each test individually, and we have not produced a Stage 1 practice pack; <a href="/hub/nats-practice-test-aptitude-tests-guide" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">our guide to NATS practice tests by stage</a> explains what NATS does say about each stage. For the assessment centre as a whole, including the interview, see <a href="/hub/nats-stage-3-stage-4-assessment-centre-guide" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">our NATS Stage 3 and Stage 4 guide</a>. Every NATS page we have is gathered on the <a href="/exam/nats-trainee-air-traffic-controller" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS trainee air traffic controller exam page</a>.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Ready for the rest of the fundamentals?</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.65">The <a href="/kits/nats-atc-knowledge-test-revision-kit" data-cta="nats-a-final-kit" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS ATC Knowledge Test Revision Kit</a> is seven pages of aviation fundamentals from CAA documents and the Met Office decode sheet, with a 40-question self-test and every answer; page 1 is free. If you are also preparing for Stage 2 or the interview, the <a href="/kits/nats-air-traffic-controller-practice-bundle" data-cta="nats-a-final-bundle" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">NATS practice bundle</a> includes the kit, our Stage 2 practice test and our interview preparation, for less than the kit and the Stage 2 test cost separately.</p><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Independent practice by ProSyllabus. Not made, endorsed or reviewed by NATS or the CAA, and not a NATS syllabus.</p></div>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.nats.aero/careers/operations/trainee-air-traffic-controllers/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">NATS: Training to be an Air Traffic Controller (the four stages, Stage 3 and Stage 4 content and dates, reapply rule), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.caa.co.uk/cap413" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">CAA CAP 413 Radiotelephony Manual, Edition 24 (pages dated 1 July 2026): Chapter 2 paragraphs 2.68 to 2.71, Chapter 3 paragraph 3.4</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/transport/aviation/regulated/training-resources-for-aviation/metars-and-tafs" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Met Office: Aerodrome Actual Weather, METAR decode (aviation training resources, METARs and TAFs)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.caa.co.uk/cap493" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">CAA CAP 493 Manual of Air Traffic Services Part 1, Edition 12 (effective 31 October 2025)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 2 November 2026.</strong> Status as of 2 November 2026, from OPM’s notices of 23 June 2025, 2 September 2025, 30 April 2026 and 18 September 2026, the Merit Hiring Plan memo of 29 May 2025 and the court’s Opinion and Order of 11 September 2026 in AFGE v. Kupor, No. 25-cv-13305 (D. Mass.). The 11 September order is temporary relief, not a final judgment, and OPM can change the questions again: the job announcement you apply to shows what it asks. ProSyllabus is independent, not affiliated with OPM, USAJOBS or any agency, and does not write, edit or grade essay answers.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Since May 2025, the Merit Hiring Plan has told agencies to put short essay questions in job announcements graded GS-5 and above. In September 2026 a court stayed one, OPM swapped in a new Question 3 and announced an agency-specific Question 5. This guide tracks where each question stands, quotes Questions 1 to 4 (old and new Question 3) word for word with OPM’s Question 5 template, and sets out OPM’s rules: who gets them, whether you must answer, how answers are used and what you certify. It is purely informational. Every rule, date and question is from OPM, the Merit Hiring Plan memo or the court’s order, read on 2 November 2026; our own reading is labelled.</p>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">The short answer</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">OPM kept Questions 1, 2 and 4, replaced Question 3 and told agencies to add an agency-specific Question 5. The original Question 3 on Executive Orders was stayed by a federal court on 11 September 2026; in USA Staffing announcements opening from 19 September 2026, OPM replaced it with a question about implementing leadership direction that differed from your own recommendation.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">OPM says the answers are not scored or rated and that skipping them does not disqualify or screen you out. Each answer is limited to 200 words, and you certify that you used your own words and did not use a consultant or AI.</p></div>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">200</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">words at most per answer</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Not scored</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">answers are not scored or rated</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">GS-5+</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">agencies must include them for GS-5 to GS-15 and SL/ST jobs (with exclusions); you may skip them</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">19 Sep 2026</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">revised Question 3 in USA Staffing announcements opening from this date</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Merit Hiring Plan memo; OPM guidance of 23 June 2025, 30 April 2026 and 18 September 2026, read 2 November 2026.</p>

Status tracker: the court stay and what changed

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0" id="mhp-tracker"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1f7a45">Status tracker · last checked 2 November 2026</p><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Where each Merit Hiring Plan essay question stands</h3><p style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.6">Built from OPM’s own notices and the court’s 11 September 2026 order. Full wording of each question is in the next section.</p><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 1 · Constitution</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45;background:#ecf7ef;border:1px solid #1f7a45;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Unchanged</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Introduced by the 29 May 2025 memo; unchanged in OPM’s 18 Sep 2026 notice</p></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 2 · Efficiency</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45;background:#ecf7ef;border:1px solid #1f7a45;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Unchanged</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Introduced by the 29 May 2025 memo; unchanged in OPM’s 18 Sep 2026 notice</p></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 3 (prior) · Executive Orders</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#a2302a;background:#fbecea;border:1px solid #a2302a;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Stayed by court</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Stayed by the court on 11 Sep 2026; replaced in USA Staffing announcements opening 19 Sep 2026 or later</p></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 3 (revised) · Implementing leadership direction</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#255a8a;background:#e9f1fa;border:1px solid #255a8a;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Replacement from 19 Sep 2026</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Set by OPM for USA Staffing announcements opening 19 Sep 2026 or later, and for open USA Staffing announcements closing 26 Sep 2026 or later</p></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 4 · Work ethic</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45;background:#ecf7ef;border:1px solid #1f7a45;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Unchanged</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Introduced by the 29 May 2025 memo; unchanged in OPM’s 18 Sep 2026 notice</p></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:12px 0"><div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;align-items:center;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Question 5 (template) · Agency priorities</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:700;color:#8a5300;background:#fff4df;border:1px solid #8a5300;border-radius:999px;padding:2px 9px">Announced, by agency</span></div><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.5">Announced 18 Sep 2026; wording set by each agency, subject to OPM approval; USA Staffing item-bundle deadline 2 Nov 2026</p></div><figure style="margin:16px 0 4px"><svg viewBox="0 0 640 284" width="100%" role="img" aria-label="Timeline of the Merit Hiring Plan essay questions from May 2025 to November 2026" style="max-width:640px;display:block"><line x1="150.0" y1="28" x2="150.0" y2="238" stroke="#e4e1d8"/><text x="150.0" y="254" font-size="11" fill="#5b6472" text-anchor="middle">May 2025</text><line x1="299.7" y1="28" x2="299.7" y2="238" stroke="#e4e1d8"/><text x="299.7" y="254" font-size="11" fill="#5b6472" text-anchor="middle">Nov 2025</text><line x1="449.4" y1="28" x2="449.4" y2="238" stroke="#e4e1d8"/><text x="449.4" y="254" font-size="11" fill="#5b6472" text-anchor="middle">May 2026</text><line x1="599.1" y1="28" x2="599.1" y2="238" stroke="#e4e1d8"/><text x="599.1" y="254" font-size="11" fill="#5b6472" text-anchor="middle">Nov 2026</text><text x="142" y="52" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q1 Constitution</text><rect x="173.3" y="40" width="449.9" height="18" rx="4" fill="#1f7a45"/><text x="142" y="86" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q2 Efficiency</text><rect x="173.3" y="74" width="449.9" height="18" rx="4" fill="#1f7a45"/><text x="142" y="120" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q3 Executive Orders</text><rect x="173.3" y="108" width="384.2" height="18" rx="4" fill="#1f7a45"/><rect x="557.5" y="108" width="65.7" height="18" rx="4" fill="#e7b3ae"/><text x="142" y="154" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q3 revised (USAS)</text><rect x="564.1" y="142" width="59.0" height="18" rx="4" fill="#255a8a"/><text x="142" y="188" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q4 Work ethic</text><rect x="173.3" y="176" width="449.9" height="18" rx="4" fill="#1f7a45"/><text x="142" y="222" font-size="12" fill="#171d29" text-anchor="end">Q5 Agency priorities</text><rect x="563.3" y="210" width="59.9" height="18" rx="4" fill="#f0d9a8"/><line x1="557.5" y1="20" x2="557.5" y2="238" stroke="#a2302a" stroke-dasharray="4 3"/><text x="553.5" y="16" font-size="11" font-weight="700" fill="#a2302a" text-anchor="end">Stay 11 Sep 2026</text><rect x="150" y="266" width="10" height="10" rx="2" fill="#1f7a45"/><text x="164" y="275" font-size="10.5" fill="#303846">Policy in force</text><rect x="246" y="266" width="10" height="10" rx="2" fill="#e7b3ae"/><text x="260" y="275" font-size="10.5" fill="#303846">Stayed</text><rect x="342" y="266" width="10" height="10" rx="2" fill="#255a8a"/><text x="356" y="275" font-size="10.5" fill="#303846">Revised Q3</text><rect x="438" y="266" width="10" height="10" rx="2" fill="#f0d9a8"/><text x="452" y="275" font-size="10.5" fill="#303846">Q5 announced</text></svg><figcaption style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">From the Merit Hiring Plan memo, the court’s order of 11 September 2026 and OPM’s notices of 18 September 2026. Bars for Questions 1, 2, 4 and the original Question 3 start at the memo date (when the policy was issued), not when each agency added them; the revised Question 3 bar starts on 19 September 2026, the date for newly opening USA Staffing announcements (open ones closing from 26 September had to be updated too), and the Question 5 bar marks OPM’s announcement of 18 September 2026, not confirmed use.</figcaption></figure><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Case status: in AFGE v. Kupor, No. 25-cv-13305 (D. Massachusetts), the 11 September order is temporary relief while the litigation is pending, not a final judgment. Our check on 2 November 2026 (OPM’s Merit Hiring Plan pages and notices): the latest OPM notice on the essays we found was dated 18 September 2026, and we found no later ruling among the official texts we read. Check the docket for later orders.</p></div>

The key dates (the rules from 2025 and April 2026 are in the sections below):

The Merit Hiring Plan essay questions, word for word

Questions 1, 2, prior 3 and 4 are quoted from the main text of the Merit Hiring Plan memo (its summary list adds “Please” at the start of Question 4’s second sentence); the revised Question 3 and the Question 5 template are from OPM’s 18 September 2026 notice. The bracketed parts of Question 5 are filled in by each agency, so the version you see will name that agency and one to three of its priorities. In USA Staffing each item carries the header “Merit Hiring Plan Essay Question #X” and “precise language mandated by OPM”, and USA Staffing agencies are told not to edit it, so Questions 1 to 4 should read the same in USA Staffing announcements; OPM warns that custom or edited items may miss its automatic updates, and the revised Question 3 follows the dates in the tracker. Question 5 differs by agency.

Our reading: if a USA Staffing announcement that opened on or after 19 September 2026 still shows the Executive Orders wording, it is out of step with OPM’s 18 September notice. The contact named on the announcement is the person to ask.

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Lists of the “four essay questions” that present the Executive Orders question as current are out of date.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> pages and documents written before 18 September 2026, including OPM’s own September 2025 FAQs, describe the four questions of the May 2025 memo, Executive Orders included.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">Since the court’s stay of 11 September 2026, OPM has told agencies not to consider answers to that question for any open vacancy and has replaced it in USA Staffing announcements opening from 19 September 2026. OPM has also directed agencies to add a fifth, agency-specific question. Read older documents alongside OPM’s 18 September 2026 notices.</p></div>

What the court decided on 11 September 2026

Three labor unions (AFGE, AFSCME and NAGE) sued OPM, its director Scott Kupor and the United States, arguing that the Executive Orders question inquires into applicants’ political views in violation of the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. On 11 September 2026 the court:

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Granted a stay</strong> under 5 U.S.C. § 705 of the APA, halting “the implementation and use” of Question 3 while the case goes on. It found the unions likely to succeed in showing that Question 3 violates the APA as contrary to a constitutional right.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Denied a preliminary injunction</strong> that would have stopped the government from considering any applicant’s response to the question, or lack of one, in federal civil service hiring decisions. The court said the unions lacked standing for it, because they stress that the case is not about individual personnel decisions.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Ruled only on Question 3</strong>, the one challenged, and only on temporary relief while the litigation continues, not a final judgment.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">AFGE v. Kupor, No. 25-cv-13305-GAO (D. Mass.), Opinion and Order, 11 September 2026.</p></div>

OPM’s 18 September notice then went further than the order on one point: it told agencies that, effective that day, they “cannot consider candidate responses to the prior Question 3 in their evaluation of candidates for any open vacancy.” Agencies do not need to reopen previous hiring actions or repost announcements that closed on or before 25 September 2026.

History: OPM’s September 2025 FAQs said agencies “may exempt other positions” at their discretion and should document why. The April 2026 guidance, which calls use mandatory for GS-5 to GS-15 and SL/ST and optional for merit promotion announcements only, does not repeat it, so do not count on that older exemption. Our reading: whether a given job asks the questions, and which version, is shown in that announcement’s questionnaire. That is the place to check, not a list of agencies.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1f7a45">Self-check · one question on the rules</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:16px;font-weight:600;color:#171d29;line-height:1.55">On 5 October 2026 you apply to a GS-11 competitive service job open to the public, posted through USA Staffing, whose questionnaire includes the Merit Hiring Plan essay questions. The announcement opened on 22 September 2026. Which statement matches OPM’s rules?</p><ul style="margin:0 0 12px;padding-left:0;list-style:none"><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.55">A. It asks you to name one or two Executive Orders, and you must answer to be considered.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.55">B. Its Question 3 asks for an example of implementing leadership direction that differed from your own recommendation, and you can submit the application without answering any essay question.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.55">C. Your essay answers are scored and decide whether you meet the qualifications.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.55">D. You may use an AI tool for the answers as long as you edit what it writes.</li></ul><details><summary style="cursor:pointer;color:#255a45;font-weight:600">Show the answer and why</summary><div style="margin:10px 0 0;padding:10px 12px;background:#ecf7ef;border-radius:8px;line-height:1.6"><p style="margin:0 0 8px"><strong>Answer: B.</strong></p><p style="margin:0">OPM replaced the prior Question 3 in USA Staffing announcements opening on or after 19 September 2026, so B describes the version you should see, and OPM’s 30 April 2026 guidance says responses must not be marked required. A uses the stayed question and wrongly says an answer is required: since June 2025 OPM has said applicants who skip the questions are not disqualified or screened out. C is wrong: OPM says answers are not scored or rated and must not be used to decide qualifications. D is wrong: applicants certify they used their own words and no consultant or AI.</p></div></details><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">An original ProSyllabus question built from OPM’s guidance of 30 April 2026 and 18 September 2026. It tests the rules, not essay content.</p></div>

Question 5: the agency-priorities question

OPM’s 18 September 2026 notice added a fifth question. Each agency and each Office of Inspector General must use a single version for all its announcements (except the shared and pooled actions below), and OPM says agencies should fill the brackets with priorities drawn from their current strategic plan, annual performance plan or other current priorities. Agencies had to send their wording to OPM by 30 September 2026. In USA Staffing, OPM said it would insert the approved wording into future announcements “as soon as possible after approval” and update the item bundle no later than 2 November 2026; agencies on other hiring systems must implement it “as soon as possible and no later than” 2 November 2026. For shared certificates and OPM-led pooled hiring actions, OPM and the participating agencies may create a version for that action.

Our check on 2 November 2026: OPM has published the template above but we found no agency’s approved Question 5 wording on an official page, so we do not quote one. If Question 5 has been added to an announcement’s questionnaire, that is where the agency’s wording will appear.

Why ProSyllabus does not help with the essays

Applicants who answer certify that the words are their own, with no consultant or AI. ProSyllabus therefore does not write, draft, edit, suggest or grade Merit Hiring Plan essay answers, and this guide gives no help with them: it only reports the rules.

The same plan deals separately with the rest of the application: the memo requires agencies to use “at least one technical or alternative assessment for candidate ranking”, and OPM’s FAQs say that from 27 September 2025 applicants applying through USAJOBS must keep their resume to two pages. Our reading: since the essays must not decide qualifications, your resume and any assessments are where preparation counts.

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<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">More from our federal resume guides: <a href="/hub/usajobs-two-page-resume-rule" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">the two-page resume rule and its exceptions</a>, <a href="/hub/specialized-experience-federal-resume-how-to" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">how to show one year of specialized experience</a>, <a href="/hub/federal-resume-template-2026" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">a free two-page template</a>, <a href="/hub/federal-resume-example-two-page" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">three finished examples</a> and <a href="/hub/usa-hire-assessment-guide" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">the USA Hire assessments</a>. All of them are on our <a href="/exam/usajobs-federal-resume" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">ProSyllabus federal resume page</a>.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Not on any official page we read</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">The approved Question 5 wording of any agency.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Any ruling or OPM notice on the essays after 18 September 2026, or an appeal decision on the stay.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Official pages read on 2 November 2026, listed under Sources below.</p></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">More in this series</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/usajobs-two-page-resume-rule" style="color:#255a45">USAJOBS 2-Page Resume Rule (2026): What OPM Requires and Exceptions</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/federal-resume-example-two-page" style="color:#255a45">Federal Resume Example (2026): Three 2-Page Samples for GS-7 to GS-12</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/federal-resume-template-2026" style="color:#255a45">Federal Resume Template 2026: Free 2-Page Word and PDF (USAJOBS Format)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/specialized-experience-federal-resume-how-to" style="color:#255a45">Specialized Experience on a Federal Resume: The 1-Year Rule, With Examples</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/usa-hire-assessment-guide" style="color:#255a45">USA Hire Assessment 2026: Each Test, Timing, Results, Free Judgment Sample</a></li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest-memos/merit-hiring-plan.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Merit Hiring Plan, memorandum from the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Acting Director of OPM (29 May 2025)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPM/bulletins/3e5f668" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM Workforce Policy and Innovation: Additional Merit Hiring Plan Guidance on Using the Four Short Essay Questions (23 June 2025), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/merit-hiring-plan-frequently-asked-questions" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM: Merit Hiring Plan Frequently Asked Questions (2 September 2025), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPM/bulletins/415409a" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM Workforce Policy and Innovation: Additional Merit Hiring Plan Guidance on Using the Four Short Essay Questions (30 April 2026), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71884278/american-federation-of-government-employees-afl-cio-v-kupor/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">American Federation of Government Employees v. Kupor, No. 25-cv-13305-GAO (D. Mass.), Opinion and Order, Document 86 (11 September 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPM/bulletins/42b1357" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM: Merit Hiring Plan — Revised Essay Questions and Treatment of Prior Question Three Responses (to agency heads and CHCOs, 18 September 2026), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPM/bulletins/42b7a4e" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM USA Staffing Program Office: Action Required — Merit Hiring Plan — Revised Essay Questions and Treatment of Prior Question Three Responses (18 September 2026), read 2 November 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">OPM: Merit Hiring Plan resources (hiring information), read 2 November 2026</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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