In reply to edd_5:
I agree with the navigation, they expect a very high standard comparable to ML. When I did the assessment we also had to do night navigation.
Also they will present you with difficult scenarios. Eg You arrive at the start of a day out by coach, the coach has gone and you are just about to set off when one of the group, a nervous lady, announces that she has forgotten to bring her walking boots. You are at the head of a remote valley, the walk back to base is 15 miles and she isn't prepared to do it unaccompanied. The rest of the group are anxious to get going on the walk and make it quite clear that having paid for the holiday they expect you to deliver. There is no mobile reception. How do you handle the situation?
I don't know if they still require you to arrange evening entertainment? I found that to be a bind.
They will be monitoring you from the moment you arrive, including how you get on with the guests over dinner - Eg. Good and considerate table manners? Passing salt and pepper to other guests? Wait for others to be served before starting to eat?Comfortable conversationalist? Do you tell inappropriate jokes? Are you shy or extrovert? Drink too much wine? etc etc
If it is anything like mine was you will be tired from the journey up, have had a good meal and are ready to turn in, when they suddenly require you to do a desk top navigation exercise in a classroom. Then when that is finished, and it's approaching mid night, you are really tired, then they tell you that you are leading a walk tomorrow, give you the map and tell you to prepare the route taking in various check points. The coach is leaving at 6 am in the morning and you have a lot of preparation to do. You spend half the remainder of the night on your hands and knees poring over a map!
In the morning we piled onto the coach and were driven to a remote area off the beaten track where none of us had been before. Of course everyone has been chatting and no one has been taking any notice of where the coach was going. On arrival you are given a map and given 5 minutes to find your exact location by observing the surrounding topography - no consultation with others.
And so it goes on. Quite relentless, and you have to be able to navigate very accurately to features like a re-entrant or knoll on a plateau summit..
They keep throwing unexpected scenarios at you like someone stopping for a pee and not coming back, your party splitting up, or someone collapsing with heart attack symptoms etc. etc to see how you handle the situations and maintain control.
All good fun
Good luck!
Post edited at 17:53