Originally Posted by Unregistered

climbing to MX 10 (or its equivalent) within 3 years is near to impossible, even for the average scholars. Only top scholars may get such achievements.

Guess your CEP, what is it? MX 9, 8? Grades 9 above are already superscalers. That is about the top 10% of civil servants. Assume your CEP is Grade 8 which is very very high. That will be 3 promotions from your current grade 11. This means 3 promotions spread out in 28+ years. Do you think you will get MX 10 in 3 years?

Your annual merit increment gives a gauge to your CEP. Yours the year immediately after promotion will be an automatic C grade, unless you screw up.