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Well if knowing the diameter of the ring and the length of net makes you a good official, then I guess I am always going to be a bad one. You have to know the rules, but those test sure do not prove a thing. All they want you to remember is the wording, not the actual application.
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I agree with you to a certain extent... I think that the main objective of these tests is to get officials in the rule books. (Although I realize that they are used as part of many officials' rankings, etc.)
There are several technical questions that do not really test your knowledge; however, there are also legitimate questions that many officials do not know the answers to. Too many officials don't understand the correctable error rule, etc.
It does seem tedious to try to figure out the administration of a two-shot foul, followed by an unsportsmanlike technical foul, followed by a fight with two players from one bench and three from the other entering the court during the fight.
But it will probably feel worse when it happens to you near the end of a tie ball game if you haven't prepared yourself for the situation.