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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 756201" data-attributes="member: 2238">Sorry I was not clear.  It is 50 questions in their own section on the national firefighter inventory test.  Before that you answer 105 questions on grammer, spelling, math, and reading comprehension.  When the test is just the first part I ace it (as I did here in Seattle on a much more difficult version, 92%).  This time however (testing for 7 different departments) they had a "personality" test at the end.  50 questions.  Answers based on how much I agreed or disagreed.  They were not weird like the ones above.  Just stuff like "I like to talk to people."  I lost most of my points there.  So I was wondering how somthing like that was "scored."  Once you have taken the test for a department (through the proctoring company) you cannot test again for those departments for six months.  I think the test is graded by a scan-tron like device (never saw it) and I do not think it has the ability to say "ah number 1 was B and 5 was E" so I am led to believe that they are looking for a specific stringof answers.  Which I think is completely FUBAR.  Hope this helps.Aaron.</blockquote>