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Originally Posted by Judtech
So what you are saying is that they run like a deer and when the lights come on they act like one too? 
I agree 100% about the verbiage of some of the test questions. It's like they spend days coming up with trick questions instead of coming up with real world questions! |
The questions you and Rut have referred to are not trick questions at all. They are probing how much you really understand the rule.
Almost anyone can be trained to know what to do in a finite list of situations (where do you put the the ball in play after XYZ happens)....but it takes more understanding to know the why and how the underlying rule applies in the general case so that you can apply it when something occurs that hasn't been explicitly covered.
Knowing the difference between "shall" and "may" or "always"/"never" and something other than always/never etc. is the essence of actually understanding the fundamental of rule. If you can get that, you don't need to remember 1000's of case plays covering every combination and permutation of the possible rules situations.