Sun Feb 17, 2008, 08:47pm
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In Time Out
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In a hut
Posts: 911
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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)
In my opinion, both the scope (breadth of material addressed, diversity and size of the test-taking population, administrive requirements) and purpose(es) of the FED Part 1 Baseball test increase the degree of difficulty. While I don't "know" this to be the case, I believe that the purposes of the FED exam include trying to insure a minimum level of rules competency among FED-licensed officials, encouraging officials to read/review the published rules materials, and calling attention to the rules which have been revised since the previous year.
While it is easy to find flaws, all in all, I believe they do a decent job of achieving their aims.
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Don't know what the aims are of your local FED org but in Atlanta it's get some fukkers on the field. The FED test is open book, test answers in hand.
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