Sunday, April 27, 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.

This promotional exam is very competitive and only those individuals who have prepared well can have the confidence of acing it. Passing this exam will mean that a person gets into a list of probable candidates qualified to getting a promotion. But passing is one thing and getting a good score is another. Even though passing will get an individual onto the eligibility list, scoring a good mark will put an individual well in front of others and therefore the person increases his or her chances of getting that 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.

To ensure that points stick well in the brain and also to clear explanation of certain topics, a person should get into a study group. A study group is a simpler way of reinforcing points and tackling topics again and again easily. One should however ensure to study first on his own before getting into a group.

Having a good study plan and preparing well will ensure a person has confidence to face the exam. During the exam, the individual should ensure to read questions carefully and understand them well as well as the choices. After which the individual picks the right choice.




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