HOW TO APPROACH FIRE SERVICE TESTS

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1. Invest time each day.• Invest time each day between now and the

assessment in practicing cognitive assessments, sample tests and free tests.

•Practicing answers and building up test experience will significantly improve chances of obtaining a good score.

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2. Practice specific questions.• Find the specific questions to the service being

applied to and practice answering those questions to be competitive.

•Get used to the specific types of questions that are going to come up in the actual tests.

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3. Be in a similar environment.•Be in a similar environment as the actual test,

whether that would be in a room with hundreds of other people or online at home.

•Make sure to train under test conditions to be efficient and to get used to it .

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4. Don’t just wing it.

•Make sure to research at a minimum the types of questions and the level of difficulty so to get some idea and get some exposure to the test-taking environment.

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5. Turn your weakness into strength•Have a mechanism to increase scores in those

questions that are difficult.

• Figure out any weakness, then put things in place to improve on that weakness to turn it into a strength.

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6. Develop a test taking strategy• Look at how to approach the test to get as many

questions correct in the time that is allotted.

• Tests are under time pressure and this is where creating a test-taking strategy will really pay off.

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