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Originally Posted by JRutledge
... if you get a 100% vs a 98% is this going to change anything?
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I am very goal oriented, so it makes a difference to me, it's about pride in my work.
While our exam procedures have changed many times over my forty-plus years, with various consequences regarding number and level of games, the current procedure no longer has any impact on either number or level of games assigned (except zero games).
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Pass the exam (80% or better)? Get game assignments. Fail the exam? Attend a remedial rules and mechanics class and then get game assignments. Fail the exam and not attend a remedial rules and mechanics class? No game assignments for the season.
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That being said, with me being very goal oriented, and with the current exam procedures that we have in place, I find it unfathomable that I, a forty-plus year veteran, who many on by local board consider to be a pretty good "rules guy" (my email box is full every morning with questions from colleagues about the exam) can't get a perfect score on an open book exam, an exam that I have three weeks to work on, an exam that we are strongly encouraged to work on with colleagues (study groups are organized and set up by our local board), and an exam with a cover sheet distributed at these study groups that gives us rule citations for every single question (but no answers).
And we can take the exam up to three times to pass (we're just given a total score each time, we are not given the questions we got wrong).
How many Forum members have it so easy on such exams? With such few consequences for a "bad" score?
Plus, I'm a retired empty-nester with all the time in the world to check and double check my answers. I even double check the easy questions.
And yet, I get a few questions wrong every year. It's embarrassing
considering the conditions under which I take the exam.
If I can't have a good understanding of the rules under these extremely simple exam conditions, how can I confidently walk into a real gym and officiate a real game under much more adverse conditions?
Especially when something "weird" happens?
For me, this exam is all about pride and self confidence. With my arthritic foot, it's all I have left. Pride and self confidence (and experience).