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Originally Posted by mbyron
NFHS wants officials to miss questions to which they (the officials) were sure that they knew the answer. That moment often sends officials back to the book, which is the ultimate objective.
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Agree.
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Originally Posted by mbyron
Ambiguous, vague, and poorly worded questions are not accidental but tactical.
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In my opinion, you're giving the NFHS, and in my case, IAABO, too much credit. I just think that they don't know how to construct a fair exam. Put an experienced high school teacher, maybe an English teacher, who's a veteran official, on the exam committee, and I'm sure that we'd get a much better test. The exam committee also needs a better editor, one who can fact check, and correct errors. Whatever happened to the concept of proofreading? If I was the chair of a committee that was responsible for distributing exams to thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of officials, I would certainly have the exam proofread several times before publication.