[JRutledge]

I agree with you JR, but here is the problem. Our state is done taking this test. We will get the confirmed answers on the 19th. They tell us our answers online immediately or we can figure out what the correct answers are. How are we supposed to know when everyone has taken the test or what they use it for? And no one posted the answers directly on the site. All they did was communicated through email which is something you are never going to stop. You can contact all the state organizations and tell everyone they are "cheating" but there is not one thing you can do about it. As long as this test is used for these purposes, it will be distributed in some way. It would be handed out if no one had to take the test for any kind of requirement. And what about those states that does not use the test at all?

One year I took the football Part 2 Exam and someone talked about having the results so I could check my answers before my state had sent out the results, this person's state made their own test. So checking my answers was pointless with this person. If states do not want this kind of problem, make your own test. And you still would have people that would give it over the internet and talk to people to get the answers before everything is finished. This is the very reason these test are overrated. Because I have yet to see anyone become a better official because they received a higher score. And despite what a particular person says from my state, you do not jump far in the playoffs if you do not have other things in your favor. No one went from on year to not working the playoffs, do a Sectional the next year all because of the result of their test. That does not happen in my state because you have to be ranked high in many other categories. The test is the easiest category to control.

Peace