I echo what everyone else here says. One of the best reasons to work lower level games is the rules cover a lot of very odd situations that are much more likely to happen in youth and sub-varsity games but not as often in varsity games. You can read the rule and case books 1000 times but unless you've had some of these situations happen on the field they won't sync in. Better to have that experience in a lower level game than on Friday night in front of 1000s of people.
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Originally Posted by Mike22Official
I've got my NFHS rule book and have been reading fairly often. I'm just trying to absorb as much as possible. The SCFOA publishes the exam grades for each official, and it seems that I'd be doing awesome if I got a 70 on my first attempt. Yikes. Does every state officials association take a standard NFHS exam or is each state's exam different?
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I believe most states use the NFHS exam for licensing. I'v heard the average pass rate of the exam is about 45%. The reason for that is most people assume they've been watching football for years, the test is true/false, you can use the rule book, how hard can it be? It's a very challenging exam but passable if you are prepared. Our local association has developing a training program focused entirely on preparing new officials for the exam. It's now about 6 years old and we've seen about a 90% pass rate overall with close to 100% each of the past 2 years. We are averaging about 15-20 new officials each year so the progam has been a huge success.