GCT2-314 Replaced: The New PSC Tests Explained
The GCT2-314 was replaced in July 2025. What the GCT-2A-324 and Tests of Judgement 376 and 377 look like, and how they are marked.
If you have been invited to a Public Service Commission test and searched for practice, a good share of what you found describes a test that no longer exists. The PSC replaced the GCT2-314 and both Tests of Judgement on 22 July 2025. The new tests are shorter in one case, slower in another and renumbered in all three, and the way results are reported is not the same across them. Here is what changed, dated, and what each current test looks like.
What changed, and when
The PSC's own pages and archived copies of its test list give a clear timeline. The dates matter because an old prep book or forum thread is usually accurate for the test it describes. It is just describing the wrong one.
Some old results still count. A GCT2-314 score of 58 or more remains valid as the alternative to a university degree, so if you sat it before July 2025 and passed, check whether you need to sit anything at all. A TOJ 376 result cannot stand in for a TOJ 377 result, or the other way round.
The GCT-2A-324: what is left of the GCT2
The GCT2-314 was 90 questions in 120 minutes across five question types. The GCT-2A-324, the A standing for abridged, is 50 questions in the same 120 minutes across three. The vocabulary and the figure questions are gone. What remains is:
- Number and letter series. Find the rule and supply the next term. Some series pair a number with a letter and ask for only one of them, and some interleave two rules.
- Numerical problems. Short office word problems: rates of work, percentages, ratios, averages, money and time.
- Analytical reasoning. A short passage sets up a scheduling, ordering or grouping puzzle, and several questions follow. The PSC says each question in a set is independent, and that information in one question or its options should not be used for another.
Every question has five options. You may use the on-screen calculator or your own, if it cannot connect to the internet or store content, and rough paper. The test is sat in person at a federal government building. The PSC does not publish the split between the three types; the old practice test had equal numbers of each, and the sample test for the new one shows all three.
The change to the clock is the part that matters most. The GCT2-314 gave you about 80 seconds a question. The GCT-2A gives you 2 minutes 24 seconds. For a prepared candidate time is rarely what runs out on the new test, and the analytical sets are where it goes. The old test's guidance said questions got harder towards the end; nothing current says that of the GCT-2A, but the style has carried over, and one analytical passage on the new sample test is the same passage the old practice test used.
The Tests of Judgement 376 and 377
The judgement tests changed less in format and more in timing. Each question is a work situation and one possible response to it, and you rate how effective the response is on a six-point scale from Very ineffective to Very effective. There is no neutral middle. The same situation can appear more than once with a different response, and the PSC says the questions appear in random order, not in order of difficulty.
- TOJ 376, the unsupervised test: 52 questions in 90 minutes, taken online on a desktop or laptop by the deadline in your invitation. The TOJ 374 it replaced gave you 75 minutes for the same 52, so you now have about 1 minute 44 seconds a question.
- TOJ 377, the supervised test: 40 questions in 60 minutes, in person. That is 1 minute 30 seconds a question, noticeably tighter than the unsupervised test.
How the two fit together is set out in the PSC's guidance to departments. A department can give everyone the TOJ 377 on its own, or run a two-step process: the TOJ 376 first, then the TOJ 377 or its own assessment of judgement for those who pass. Applicants must pass both steps, and the supervised step must happen before an appointment. A candidate who already holds a TOJ 377 result cannot skip step 1.
How each test is marked
The PSC uses two different reporting models, and knowing which one applies to you changes what a good result looks like.
Two things follow from the J-level scale. First, even the strictest department bar lets through the top 65% of test takers: the test is built to screen out a tail, not to rank the top. Second, the scale stops at the median, so a J-10 is the best result there is. There is no advantage in agonising over a question to squeeze a result above the 50th percentile that the report cannot show.
The PSC does not publish how partial marks are calculated. The retired TOJ 375 reported a score out of 4000 and put its lowest pass mark of 3400 at the 35th percentile, which says that most candidates earned most of the available marks and were separated by small differences in their ratings. Being close on every question matters more than being exactly right on a few.
What did not change
The GCT-1-207 is the same test it has been since June 2023: 50 four-option questions in 85 minutes on short memos, practical numerical problems and rules to apply, in person, with a calculator. Every test still runs on the PSC's Candidate Assessment Tool, where you can move to any question at any time, change answers and mark questions for review, and where the system will not remind you about questions you skipped before you submit. Every test is bilingual. And the retest rule is unchanged: you wait 180 days, and a result from a retest inside that window is not valid.
Our Public Service Commission practice tests cover all four current tests at their real lengths and clocks, with a question list and Mark for Review as on the Candidate Assessment Tool, and the Unsupervised Test of Judgement is free to try. If you are wondering whether the home test can be shortcut, our page on cheating the PSC tests explains why the two-step process makes it pointless.