Built by people on shift, for the people who'll join them.
Everything between you and a recruit number — aptitude, PAT, interview, psychometric, group. Eight specialist coaches in one app, calibrated to the way Australian fire services actually assess.
No card. About 6 minutes.
Three things you're walking into.
- 01
Wanting it isn't being ready for it.
Pools are oversubscribed. Most candidates know what the assessments are — far fewer have an honest read on where they sit against the cut-off.
- 02
The tests don't reward your strengths.
Cognitive, PAT, interview, psychometric, group. Services pick recruits who hold a steady line across all of them — not stars in one and gaps in the rest.
- 03
Six focused weeks beats six months of guessing.
Most knock-backs trained hard — on the wrong thing for their service. The fastest win is pointing effort at the right domain, in the right order.
Eight specialists. One conversation.
Each assessment has its own coach. They share what they know about you, and they tag each other in when a question crosses domains. Colour-coded in the app — same colours you'll see here, so you always know who's talking.
This is what training actually looks like.
Drills live inside the chat. They have time budgets, real benchmarks, and the coach is reading along — so the debrief is waiting the moment you finish.
Per-question budget. If you blow past it, your coach knows.
Real targets from your service. Never flattered.
The coach scores the structure, not the prose.
Calibrated items count. Chat doesn't. You always know which is which.
One score. Five domains. A clear next step.
This is the report you walk out of the readiness check with. Numbers below are a sample, but the layout, the domains and the weighting are exactly what you'll see for your service.
Sample report · FRNSW
Week 2 · early read- PAT (physical) 62 w 45%
- Cognitive / aptitude 74 w 20%
- Interview 48 w 15%
- Psychometric 71 w 15%
- Group assessment 64 w 5%
Early scores are deliberately conservative. We'd rather start you a few points low and let your week of evidence move the number than flatter you on day one.
Cognitive — sitting at 74
Numerical and verbal are well above the FRNSW cut. Hold it with one short drill a week — don't over-train it at the expense of PAT.
Interview — 48, weighted 15%
STAR answers are running long and missing the "result". Panels switch off after the third sentence. Tighten before fitness — easier to move and the weighting earns it.
Two STAR rehearsals + a beep test re-test
Tue + Thu: 15 minutes each, graded against the FRNSW rubric. Sun: timed beep test to see if the conditioning block is moving the number.
Three steps. No mystery.
Six-minute readiness check
Quick diagnostic across all five assessments. No card. No upload. You walk out with a real score, not a sales pitch.
Your report + a one-week plan
See your weighted score, the one domain dragging you down hardest, and seven days of training aimed at that gap.
Train, retest, watch it move
Daily drills graded by the coaches against the rubric your service publishes. Weekly retest tells you if it's working — or it doesn't, and we say why.
Coaching content reviewed on shift, not on a marketing call.
Built and reviewed by serving Australian firefighters.
Every drill, rubric and explanation is sanity-checked by people who have actually sat — and graded — these assessments. If they wouldn't say it on shift, it doesn't ship.
Numbers come from each service's published material.
PAT minimums, stage order and weighting are sourced from each service's recruitment pages — FRNSW, FRV, CFA, QFES, SAMFS, DFES, TFS, ACTAS, NTFRS, FENZ. When a service updates, we update.
No fake testimonials. No 'verified results'.
We're early. The product is honest about that. The only people quoted in the app are the coaches grading your work — not strangers on a landing page.
Different service, different test. The coaches reweight the moment you pick one.
Compare your service
Showing FRNSW — pick yours below to see weightings, PAT minimums and stages.
- PAT (physical)45%
- Cognitive / aptitude20%
- Interview15%
- Psychometric15%
- Group assessment5%
- Beep Test (level)10.5 level
- Push-ups in 1 min30 reps
- Plank hold90 sec
- Grip strength45 kg
- Application & eligibility
- Cognitive & psychometric (ACER)
- Video interview
- Physical Aptitude Test (PAT)
- Background, medical & merit pool
Worth knowingFRNSW runs one of the tougher PATs in the country — train past the minimums, not to them.
Free to start. One pass, no surprises.
Pick a window that matches your timeline. Pay once. The pass expires when the window does — no auto-renew, no card on file you forgot about.
Readiness check
FreeSix-minute diagnostic. Your weighted score across the five assessments and a one-week plan.
- No card
- Honest score and gap callout
- Yours to keep
6-week pass
A$149Short runway. Assessment or interview inside about six weeks.
- 42 days of full access
- Daily drills graded against your service's rubric
- Score reweights when you switch services
12-week pass
A$249The full build. From a baseline read to assessment-ready.
- 84 days of full access
- All five domains, all the way through
- Weekly retest with score movement
- Streaks and momentum tracking
One-time purchase. Non-refundable. Expires automatically — no auto-renew. Prices shown in AUD; local currency (NZD, USD, CAD, GBP) is calculated at checkout inside the app.
Plain answers. No marketing-speak.
Does the AI actually help, or is it a glossy question bank?
The AI grades your answers against the rubric each service publishes, points at the specific thing that lost the marks, and assigns the drill most likely to move that number. A static bank can't do any of those three things.
I haven't applied yet. Is this still worth my time?
Yes — most of our users are 3 to 12 months out. Knowing your weakest domain early is the cheapest possible advantage. The free readiness check is built for exactly this case.
I got knocked back last round. What do I do differently?
Run the readiness check, then look at the gap callout. Most second-round candidates trained hard on the domain they were already best at. The product is built to stop that.
What if I pay and decide it's not for me?
Passes are non-refundable but don't auto-renew. Start with the free readiness check before you pay for anything — if it doesn't tell you something useful in six minutes, don't buy the pass.
Who reviews the content?
Serving Australian firefighters. Numbers come from each service's published recruitment material — citations live in the app next to the relevant drill.
Will my service actually let me use this?
Yes. FirePrep prepares you for assessments that the services themselves publish. We don't reproduce live test items, we don't claim affiliation, and we don't sit the test for you.
Does FENZ work the same way?
FENZ is included. The Physical Functional Capacity Assessment (PFCA) is treated as its own stage rather than a beep-based PAT, and the weightings adjust accordingly.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. The app runs in any modern mobile browser. Drills are designed to fit a 3- to 5-minute gap — between sets at the gym, on the bus, before a shift.