Thursday 24 April 2014

Preparing For Fire Department Promotional Exams

By Eloise Hewitt


For fire fighters, tests are always a part of their lives. From the entrance exam they usually take to proficiency tests throughout their experience, exams are essential for them to prove their knowledge in various aspects. Also when such professionals are seeking a promotion as career advancement, they also have to sit for the fire department promotional exams.

For people who do not know this, the promotional exam is usually very competitive and persons who have prepared enough can ace it. When one passes this exam, he or she is placed in a list of probable candidates for promotion. In order to be on top of that list to get the promotion fast, the individual must therefore aim to get the best score. For people who fail this exam, they have to wait for the next year when the test is offered again to try their chance for a promotion.

Succeeding in this exam requires self discipline and concentration. An individual has to set aside time daily studying and also ensure to study efficiently. Most of the people who fail this test never set enough time for studying or they never prepared well. Some of them waited till last minute to start cramming a lot of information.

Therefore one has to look for study materials early enough. An individual can be given some of the learning materials by the fire department while other materials he or she can find in the library or search online. Once with these materials, the individual should start reading them and writing short simpler notes they can be able to understand. Since the chunk of materials to read may be a lot, one can decide to read a chapter everyday or 4 chapters a week among other ways.

Apart from making short notes, the person must ensure to derive questions from every topic captured. The derived questions should then be done after the individual finishes reading a topic. After one has covered all chapters and answered all derived questions, the individual should re read the short notes again to ensue the information is reinforced.

Practice tests are important and a person should ensure to sit for many of them. The result that one will get will show the areas that the individual ought to study more. To get numerous practice tests, a person can search over the internet. There are numerous websites that provide these practice tests and one should do most of them and revise them as well.

It is also important that one gets into a study group. In a group study, the individual will be able to understand more areas he or she has not understood well while studying alone. Also in the group, reviewing questions will also be done as well each topic will be discussed in a short amount of time enabling one to recall easily.

Therefore persons must ensure to create an effective study plan and ensure to follow it to the latter. By covering all areas and revising well will ensure that one has confidence when sitting for this test. Also when reading a question, one should do it carefully to understand what is required in order to pick the right choice.




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