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Old Thu Aug 19, 2004, 07:37pm
The Roamin' Umpire The Roamin' Umpire is offline
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Taking the test closed book, I also answered true - illegal position, procedure, numbering, formation all amount to the same thing. People use the terms interchangeably. The writers of the NF exam shouldn't do that, but they do. As someone pointed out in a different thread, the trick is to figure out when they're TRYING to trip you up with wording, and when they just botched it themselves.

Frankly, I have never found the true/false format to be of any use in my own high school classroom. It'd be nice if the NF would get a couple of people in their office who (a) had some background in test-writing methods, and (b) knew how to proofread.
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