Data from the IDF Personnel Division: This summer - only 2.5% of those designated for military service asked to be rejected • Military source: "They are tired of being at home"
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Against the background of the corona, there has been a decrease of more than 56 percent in the number of young people designated for security service, who want to postpone their recruitment to the IDF, Israel Today has learned.
In the military, this is explained by the fact that the options for young people who do not enlist are more limited, and therefore they prefer to complete military service as soon as possible and not postpone it for a few months.
According to data from the Personnel Division, in 2019 about 6.2 percent of summer recruits sought to postpone their enlistment in the army, compared to only about 2.5 percent in the corresponding period in 2020 - a decrease of 56.95 percent.
According to a military source, the young people are no longer interested in staying at home during the Corona period, and the military is a good option for them.
"The children want to run away and enlist, they are tired of being at home," a senior officer explained. "Usually we see a lot of requests to postpone enlistment in August, and this year the number of requests has dropped dramatically.
The Corona has forced the Personnel Division to change its recruitment procedures to the military, and today very many of the pre-recruitment processes do not take place in the recruitment bureau, but at home.
As a result, on average, non-commissioned officers spend five hours in recruitment bureaus instead of seven as in the past, and in a short time the stay will be reduced by another hour. The reduction of schedules was made possible, among other things, thanks to data collection and some online screening processes.
Adaptive DPR
Meanwhile, the IDF plans to change the DPR tests (initial psychotechnical rating) and turn them into "adaptive" tests, in which security service personnel will be required to answer questions according to their personal level.
These days, the unit is conducting the best experiment in the new test, and if it succeeds, new exams will be tested as early as next January. It is estimated that as a result of the change, the time required for the DPR tests will be reduced by about half.
To date, the DPR test has contained 40 questions in each of the four chapters: quantitative thinking, formal thinking, verbal analogies and formal analogies. The test lasted about an hour and a half on average, and the maximum time was two hours. The tests were adapted to all levels.
As part of the "adaptive DPR" method, the test will be adjusted to the examinee's level, so that examinees with a high level of intelligence will not have to waste their time on questions that are too easy, while examinees with a lower level of intelligence will not have to deal with difficult questions. An "adaptive" R will be required to answer about 20 questions in each of the four test chapters, and the questions will begin at the average level. Those who succeed in answering them correctly will receive more difficult questions, and those who fail will receive easier questions.