Fire would be OK I guess... I've tried before to get on with a department but never heard back. They had somewhere around 1,000 candidates for like 3 open positions. I suspect it's kind of a political situation. I'm really more interested in emergency medical care. If I was sure I'd get on after passing the written and physical fitness test, I might go that route for the pay reasons... Get to do the prehospital emergency care and fight fires, Yea great. It just seems like ya probably have to know someone to get in. As far as my class right now, the EMT-B class, we started out with 10 students and we're already down to 5... I am shocked by that! If people wanted to do this enough to sign up and pay for the class, what happened between then and now??? I don't know. Anyway, my average gradewise right now is a 91%. I'm not over joyed with that, I mean it's a good grade but I feel like I could be doing better. Of course I'm not looking at the fact that I'm up to a 91% I'm seeing that I'm down the 9%. lol... 9% I may have missed if I'd been on the street with someones life depending on my ability to know that 9%. Not getting down on myself here but I am striving to be the best possible EMT-B and the EMT-P I can possibly be. I'm sure you know what I'm saying. Anyway without rambling on any more, what is the Indy state test like??? Our instructor says she formats our quizes and test in the same way the test will be. She gives the multiple choice question along with 4 possible answers, 1 or 2 that are completely rediculous and usually 2 that could be correct but 1 of which is the "BEST" answer. Let me know what you thought of the test and how I can go ahead and start preparing for it. As far as the skills go I've started going to the hospital on off nights and practicing with the dummies to get the methods down and try to get it so that it comes second nature. I try to make myself see it as a real event to try to get my nerves or adrenaline up. I know it wont even come close to a real situation when the nerves and adrenaline REALLY kick in but I want to make it feel as real to me as possible. I don't know why but all my life I have always seemed to be at my absolute best when things are fubar and at my worst when things are rediculously smooth and easy. Give me a true test, a crunch emergency situation though and I tend to suprise myself. Thanks for the replies.