Behavioural Styles Questionnaire

What this is

Many services start firefighter selection with an untimed questionnaire about how you tend to behave at work, often called a Behavioural Styles Questionnaire, or Test Partnership's Assessment for Firefighter. You rate short statements about yourself on an agree/disagree scale. Shropshire FRS says that, depending on your answers, you may also be asked to rank some statements by how well they describe you.

This page lets you try both formats, then gives you a reflective profile linked to the NFCC Core Code of Ethics and Leadership Framework. It is not a score and not a pass or fail. Real questionnaires compare you with other candidates using methods that aren't published, so no practice tool can tell you how you would do.

Try the scale

How far does this describe you at work?

I like to check the details before I hand in a piece of work.

How it works here

• 10 statements per page, rated on a seven-point scale, as Test Partnership's briefing guide describes. Answer every statement to continue. As in that guide, you can't go back to earlier pages.
• Answer as you are at work, or in college, volunteering or other work if you haven't had a job, rather than in your social life.
• Some ideas come up twice in different words. Real questionnaires do this too; it isn't meant to catch you out.
• At the end you rank a few statements you rated equally, so you have to choose between them.