NABCO: What are your chances of being selected? Calculate now!

If you applied for NABCO, then you should know that the last couple of weeks have been stressful with a seeming lack of information and a feeling of "when will I start work"? Message from NABCO: Hello Interviewee, Please expect to receive SMS on the outcome of the NABCO selection process starting FROM Thursday August 23, 2018. You are advised to patiently wait for updates via SMS or our website: www.nabco.gov.gh Using the NABCO Chance System to Calculate In order to help you calculate your chances of getting selected, I have come up with a Chance Point System, using data that is already available and a few statistics and mathematics. The way the chance system works is that you choose your region, module and gender, get the points for each of them, add them and divide by 3. You should get a number from 0 to 3.5. The higher the number, the higher your chance of getting selected into NABCO. This should give you a fair Idea as we wait for the NABCO appointment message on 23rd of August 2018. Click on next to start calculating Chance System Indicators I have used primarily three indicators for the calculations of my NABCO chance system. You can read about them below. SMS Alerts A lot of people have said that if you did not receive an SMS asking you to review the process, you may not be selected. Other people have also said if you didn't receive an SMS telling you that the appointments will be out, then your chances are low. However, we can say from authority that the SMS that is been sent is what is termed as "BULK SMS". Therefore, anyone who applied for the SMS may receive the message. This is by no means an indication of success or otherwise. There have been scenarios where people who applied but didn't even book appointment dates recieved these SMS. We have a detailed article on how to check your NABCO appointments once they are out on the 23rd of August, 2018. A lowly contested region Depending on the region you applied from, you may have a higher chance of being accepted into NABCO. Some regions had a lot more people than others. From the graph above, you would see that people in the Ashanti, Greater Accra and Nothern Regions will face a lot of competition than those in the other regions. This is because the higher the number of applicants in a region, the more likely it will be contested and the more people that may not get selected. To use the chance system at this point, check your region below and check the chance point for that region and write it down. For this example, let's say that our Applicant is From the Greater Accra Region, and she applied to the Digitise Ghana Module. So at this stage, Her chance point is 0.5 Region Received Applications Percentage Chance point Ashanti 34,909 24.05% 0.5 Greater Accra 31,809 21.92% 0.5 Northern 19,807 13.65% 0.5 Brong Ahafo 12,248 8.44% 1 Central 11,139 7.68% 1 Eastern Region 11,039 7.61% 1 Western 10,070 6.94% 1 Volta 5,347 3.68% 1.5 Upper East 4,756 3.28% 1.5 Upper West 4,000 2.76% 1.5 Module Choice The choice of the module will also affect your chances. Educate Ghana had a lot of applicants and so there is going to be a lot of competition there. Use the table below to check your module and add the chance point from here to the chance point above. So continuing with our example, our example applicant is at Digitise Ghana, and the chance point for that is 1. Adding her chance point from her region, she has (0.5+1), which is equal to 1.5 Module Received Applications Percentage Chance point Educate Ghana 43,834 30.20% 0.5 Revenue Ghana 31,095 21.43% 0.5 Civic Ghana 19,917 13.72% 1 Digitise Ghana 16,620 11.45% 1 Enterprise Ghana 12,949 8.92% 2 Heal Ghana 11,785 8.12% 2 Feed Ghana 8,934 6.16% 3 Gender A lot fewer ladies applied to the programme than males. This gives ladies a slight advantage over their guy counterparts. Here is the data for the NABCO chance calculation for gender: Gender Received Application Percentage Chance Point Female 55,964 38.22% 5.5 Male 90,454 61.78% 4.5 Again, let's continue with our example applicant. She already has an accumulated chance point of 1.5. As she is a female, we would now add 5.5 to 1.5 which will give us a value of 7. We would now divide the total by 3 to give us a final chance point of 2.33 Click on next to see how to interpret your point. Interpreting the Chance point System Depending on the result you get, here is how to interpret it: Chance Point Range Interpretation 0 - 0.5 Highly Competitive, slim chance 0.51 - 1.0 Competitive, manageable chance 1.01 - 1.5 Competitive, fair chance 1.51 - 2.0 Competitive, good chance 2.01 - 2.5 Fairly Competitive, good chance 2.51 - 3.0 Not Competitive, great chance 3.01 - 3.5 Not Competitive, best chance Thank you for reading. If you have any questions, kindly ask in the comment below. Don't forget to share with your friends on Facebook and WhatsApp, to help them prepare for the news on 23rd.