Thanks, Perna. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily true - two jobs I've applied for before have had shortened versions of "forced choice" psychometric tests, and these have just been checkout jobs! I guess I did end up getting one of the jobs, though, so at least I was ok that time. But I find it hard to believe they'd pay much attention to the tests with a job at that level.

That's good to know, thanks. One of the things the lecturer said that worried me was that these tests can be used to "make sure your face fits" - I rarely feel like I fit in anywhere.

Good point. Our Dynamics lecturer actually told all us mechanical engineers (we get put in with the aero engineers for that lecture) that we'd probably never use the subject once we graduate.

Actually, speaking of music, I found a poster a few days ago about someone thinking of starting up a ceilidh band! I emailed her, but haven't got a reply yet...hopefully I will. I don't know if there are any chamber groups here.

Thanks for the link!