Montana Firefighter Testing Consortium

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak across the world and the unknowns for the near future, the MT Firefighter Testing Consortium has chosen to delay the testing until October 12-15, 2020. The Practice Test will be Sept. 11th & 12th. This decision was difficult to make, but the safety of our staff and all registrants is vitally important to us.
E-mails were sent out on 3/19 to all who registered. If you don’t see an e-mail from shall@helenamt.gov, look in your junk or spam folder. If you can not find it, send an e-mail to said address and I will reply back with full notice.

Registration is open for the  May 18-21, 2020 testing. Registration is $85 until January 15th, then $100 until March 13th, 5 pm MST.
Testing will again be in Great Falls, MT.

This year we are trying something different with scheduling.  Each day, the written test will be administered in the morning and afterwards, the CPAT will start. The course “Viewing” will take place Monday between written and physical and in the evening (around 7) for the following days.

The registration will require you to chose a 1st and 2nd choice for testing days, as there will be a limit for each day. To start with only Monday – Wednesday will be available. If those get close to filling up, then a Thursday option will open. 

If this is your first time testing, PLEASE read the information on the other tabs prior to registering. If you have questions that were not answered on this web page, click the “Contact Us” link for options.

Click the “apply” tab above to register.

The registration for May 2019 testing closed at 5 pm 3/15. For those of you who did register, you will receive an e-mail and a postcard with the web location of all the documents you need for the May testing and April practice tests by the end of March. For those of you who are interested, but didn’t register, you will have to wait until next year. Registration usually opens every year by mid-November and closes mid-March.

The testing for 2019 will be May 20-23rd. This is different from our past June dates. The written test will be on Monday the 20th and all who pass will be randomly scheduled for the CPAT on the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd.

Registration fill be open around 8 am on November 19th and will close on March 15th.

Registration (non-refundable) will be the same as last year. $85 until January 15th and $100 thereafter.

Thank you to everyone who registered for June’s testing. Information and details will be mailed and emailed to everyone in the next couple weeks.  If you missed the deadline this year, we do not accept any late registrations, but it should be open for 2019’s testing in November.

We are extending the deadline over the weekend. It will now close about 8:30 am MST on Monday, March 26th.

There will be no changes to 2018 testing process. Registration is open as of December 4th. Testing will be June 4-7, 2018 in Great Falls MT. Click the “Apply” tab under the picture to register. Early Bird registration through January 31st will be $85. From February 1-March 23rd, registration will be $100.

The consortium is exploring possible changes to our written testing process that would change registration and CPAT scheduling. Registration will NOT open mid-November as usual. We will have more details this month and will make an announcement by the beginning of December.

Friday, March 24th was the closing for this year’s registration. For everyone who registered on time, information will be mailed/e-mailed out by April 6th on where to get all the information for this years test. If you registered and haven’t received anything by the 11th of April, contact Sheri at 406-447-8404.

For those of you who didn’t register, we do not accept any late registrations. You will have to wait until next year to test. Registration is usually open starting mid November.

The members of the consortium will be conducting their spring board meeting 03/02/17. The meeting will be held at Helena Fire Station 1, 300 Neill Ave, Helena MT. If you are interested in participating or attending, please contact Sheri Hall @ 406-447-8404 or shall@helenamt.gov for information.