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Old Wed Dec 07, 2005, 07:34pm
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Originally posted by CLAY
I wish I could, but these are the questions I missed on my test scored a 91% Sometimes the questions can be more of an english test than a rules test. They word the question to confuse you. When I look up the rule these are the one that the rule did not make sense to me.

Thanks for you help and I will keep reading to have a better understanding of how the rules are written.
Yea, the rulebook can be confusing. But instead of just asking for true/false answers to questions, you should be asking to understand the situations described, and the variations that might be important.

For instance,


3. After obtaining an initial legal position , the guard must continur to face the oppomemt to maintain legal position. True/false

instead of just knowing whether or not that's true, you need to be asking why. What are all the rules that apply? How might the situation change to make the statement the other way round? What are the legal definitions of "guard," "legal position", "facing", and "opponent"? And so forth. WHen does this rule apply, and when doesn't it?

If you word the questions yourself, then you'll get an accurate picture from the answers to those questions, and from then on, you'll be able to get the answers right on the test AND you'll be able to administer the rules better on the floor.
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