What does it mean when your free chlorine is higher than total chlorine?

Technically no. Your total chlorine reading would include all forms of chlorine, which we tend to lump into to basic categories, Free and combined. If you get readings that show that the free amount is higher then total, I would suggest a retest. If you are still getting the same result, I would try another test or different reagents. I'm sure there might be something that could give you false results and that might be what id happening in this case.

Actually it can happen because it happened to me today i saw it happen that the free chlorine was 2.49 and after the 2 minute waiting period the test was 0.33 and the sample was visibly less pink than when the DPD 1 was tested, there has to be some reason for this or some way to fix it as if we are using the same reagents for other samples and it is working for those then this must mean that there is something wrong with the water i a, testing and not the tablets i am testing with!

The total reading after time will drop if the residual level is high enough and there is not enough DPD. Hach recommends for using a 5 ml sample instead of 10 ml and 2 power pillows instead of 1. This gives four times the DPD to do the analysis. With very high levels you can see a flash of dark color and then go to clear as the chlorine bleaches the color from the DPD. The addition of extra DPD overcomes the bleaching effect.