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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chun-tzu" data-source="post: 756299" data-attributes="member: 1441">Oh, okay. So it's a specialized test, and one I'm not at all familiar with. So I may be off on some of the other stuff.Well, you may be right here about them looking for a specific profile. I'm still doubtful, though; most personality profiles are pretty individualistic, and given how many firefighters there are across the country, I doubt they all match one specific type (even if it's a vague type). I'm still thinking that it's a screening device, more than anything.I wonder if you can talk to anyone there (the testing or training guys) about your results. Maybe they can give you some advice on what you can do (if anything), since you passed all the other requirements. Their test (which hopefully is a good one, I wouldn't know) seems to indicate that firefighting isn't the best match for you, so maybe if you talked with some firefighters about your situation, you'd get a sense of whether or not that's true.(Man, this makes me think of a PC trying to get into a PrC, and meeting all the mechanical requirements, but still needing some "Special" requirement. Sorry about the sidetrack there.)Also, consider the possibility that it's right. Ask yourself why you want to be a firefighter. Maybe there's more to it than you know, and if you knew more than you'd know that you wouldn't like being a firefighter. (I don't know you well enough to say either way; I'm just raising the possibility.) Then again, maybe they're just not really looking for new people right now, and so the requirements are pretty strict.It's possible that the questions are graded according to a certain key, and that you need to meet a minimum cutoff score. For example, maybe "I like to talk to people" is worth 2 points if you agree strongly, 1 point if you agree, all the way down to -2 points for disagree strongly. Again, that's just a guess, and it's not the way standard personality tests work.Well, however this all turns out, I certainly wish you the best of luck in this, J. Wish I could have told you something more specific, instead of educated guesses.</blockquote>

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