Dynamic Test Taking Techniques: Emergency Services Training

By Craig Mackellar

This manual has been designed to assist applicants in preparing for general aptitude tests that target word knowledge (vocabulary) and verbal reasoning.
General aptitude tests targeting word knowledge and verbal reasoning are used by the following organisations in assisting them in recruiting the most suitable people for the job.
– State Police Services
– Australian Federal Police
– St John Ambulance
– Ministry of Justice (Prisons)
– State Fire & Rescue Service
– Australian Defence Forces.
The test taking techniques and concepts will help you perform to the best of your ability by allowing you to apply strategies and techniques to general aptitude questions of this variety.

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Paragon Corporate Training's Emergency Services' Preparatory Course has been developed to help you become super competitive in all aspects of general ability testing relating to the various emergency services throughout Australia.
This program will:
– Bridge the gap between your existing knowledge and skills; and the skills and knowledge required to meet the selection criteria for the police, ambulance, prison and fire and rescue services.
– Allow graduates to perform to their full potential and therefore reflect a sound and competitive aptitude for learning.
– Focus on long term retention and competent application of knowledge and skills in a workplace context.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781922788269

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Introduction

What does this program provide for me?

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The specific industry skills identified as essential for entry into the police services and fire & rescue service can be elusive for many people. Yet, as we have found through our own experiences, the skills required to demonstrate a sound aptitude for learning are inherent in all of us. What often remains dormant is the commitment to take on a challenge; it is the challenge and commitment that inspires people to do great things.

The special skills required for the emergency services are readily achievable to individuals who are committed to developing themselves. In most cases where an applicant has failed a general ability test or physical assessment, they were unprepared.

People’s literacy and numeracy skills, test taking skills, behavioural skills as well as fitness level all diminish through lack of use or practice.

Many adults, especially adults of indigenous and non-English speaking background have not had the opportunity to gain the skills set down by industry as pre-requisite for employment, such as numerical problem solving and work place English. This phenomenon places many people, who would otherwise be highly appropriate as emergency service officers, at a disadvantage.

The opportunity to compete on a level playing field in general ability testing with mainstream applicants exists through this self-teaching guide.

Craig Mackellar

Police Academy Instructor 1992 - 95

The competitiveness factor

Selection for a position within an organization is partly based on the highest scores over the entire selection process. It may not be good enough to pass in each area, you need to be competitive with the front-runners in all areas.

Paragon Corporate Training’s Emergency Services’ Preparatory Course materials have been developed to help you become super competitive in all aspects of general ability testing relating to various government sector organisations throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UK. This program will:

◘Bridge the gap between your existing knowledge and skills; and the skills and knowledge required to meet the selection criteria for the police, ambulance, prison and fire & rescue services.

◘Allow graduates to perform to their full potential and therefore reflect a sound and competitive aptitude for learning.

◘Focus on long term retention and competent application of knowledge and skills in a workplace context.

Verbal Reasoning

The Verbal Reasoning test, as its name implies, is a measure of ability to understand concepts framed in words. The Verbal Reasoning test may be expected to predict, with reasonable accuracy, success in fields that require the understanding of complex relationships and skills in manipulating verbal concepts.

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The verbal reasoning question tests the ability to see a relationship between two words in a particular context, and to apply this relationship to another set of words.

For example: