# Anyone Taken Any Tests Lately?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 27, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394 "2006-05-27T00:57:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394/21 "2006-05-29T12:21:10Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> Was this written test the National Registry? Or something county specific?
[DeNiro]You talkin’ to me?[/DeNiro]
I took my county’s test - I’m already an EMT-B with a volunteer fire company. Now I’m trying to get into the county as a career EMT. I didn’t think I’d do it when I became an EMT, but when they started recruiting, something just clicked. I really like it. I got a lot of encouragement from people at my station, and it just felt right, so here I am at the advanced age of 41, competing with a bunch of fit 20-somethings. I must be nuts.
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### Author:  [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394/22 "2006-05-29T18:43:48Z")
Finals for my Japanese course tonight. It’s amazing to learn how much I’ve been mangling the language for all this time. (“Wow… there’s an extra syllable in _sukoshi_.”)
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394/23 "2006-05-29T19:08:41Z")
My levels of vitamin B12 were abnormally low at my last physical, so my doctor sent me for a Schilling’s test awhile ago to see if my body has trouble absorbing B12. The results were normal, so now I just take a B12 supplement to make up what I lack.
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### Author:  [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-taken-any-tests-lately/358394/24 "2006-05-29T19:45:40Z")
In April, I took the Texes exam in special education. I was offered a spot in a teaching training program, and I wanted to have the test out of the way if I decided to accept it. Ultimately, I elected to turn it down, but I passed the test, much to my surprise.
Taking it was a surreal experience. It was offered in a high school, and it reminded me that I always, always hated having to wait while the instructions were read aloud.
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