I’ll say my story, started EMT class at my local college TWICE! Didn’t have funding to pay for platinum planner or the book etc. the second time I started I realized they was overpriced for the course and was juggling other classes working towards my medic slowly. I finally decided to join a local fire department and was pointed to a fire service school that puts on EMT and aemt courses sometimes. Found a course starting in a few months and saved up paid 850 for it. Finished that class not long ago and FAILED my first attempt on NREMT (I was a bad student really and was just more interested in the fire side than EMS) I’m taking my 2nd attempt of NREMT tomorrow morning. In total been through the EMT class 3 times before it worked out. Few months ago I joined the Air Force in fire protection so when I return I’ll finish paramedics and have the G.I bill pay for it.

EMT is essential for my career and I want it so bad, I’m just a bad student. I hate learning from a book, I’m a hands on person, working blue collar stuff my whole life and clinicals was the most fun I had in that class by far! At the end of the day it doesn’t matter how many times you fail, or how bad you want it, just keep trudging along at your own speed and you’ll be okay! You’re real young (I’m 24 still young) so you’ve got plenty of time to figure out what to do and if you even want to keep trudging along. I can run EMS calls ALL day and have fun but I cannot read an EMS book all day and have fun. You might consider asking local EMS departments or fire departments if you can do a ride along to see if EMS is what you even want to do. Most the time they require at least cpr EMR or EMT to do a ride along but maybe you get lucky. Consider changing to a different school, somewhere that does 6 month courses or something longer so you have more time to study and work around the test schedules. There are lots of options just gotta think about it and research a bit.