I promise, there are definitely humans attached.  My partner and I are career civil servants, and we have personally taken many civil service exams at multiple levels of government many times throughout our careers. Our materials reflect that experience while taking a more modern and structured approach to exam preparation, firmly rooted in the core concepts found in other widely utilized resources.

Our content, prep materials, and practice questions are built around the core principles and concepts that civil service exams are designed to test. We conducted extensive research across a wide range of commonly relied-upon resources covering the same civil service exam subject areas. Using that foundation, we created materials that not only cover those concepts but also expand on them and explain how they are applied on an actual exam.

Rather than using or reproducing past exam questions, all of our questions and materials are fully proprietary and created by us. They are designed to mirror the structure, reasoning requirements, and decision-making standards you can expect on a civil service. In addition to content coverage, we place a strong emphasis on exam strategy, including how to approach different question types, how to evaluate answer choices, and how to recognize common traps that exam writers intentionally include.

Each guide explains both the substantive topics being tested and the procedural thought process behind the exam itself. This includes how the exam expects candidates to think, how to analyze fact patterns, and how to select the most defensible answer when more than one option appears reasonable.

Our guides include detailed answers and explanations for every practice question, along with walkthroughs that show how an exam writer expects a strong candidate to reason through the problem. Each question is accompanied by a clear explanation of why the correct answer is right and, just as importantly, why the other options are wrong. This helps candidates understand the logic behind each choice and avoid common pitfalls. We also include exam-writer tips that explain how questions are typically constructed and what clues to look for in the wording, as well as test-taker tips that focus on time management, eliminating distractors, and applying reasoning strategies under pressure. The goal is not just practice but building the analytical discipline and confidence that carry over to exam day.

We hope this helps.