Normal Landing ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... if you get a 100% vs a 98% is this going to change anything?

I am very goal oriented, so it makes a difference to me, it's about pride in my work.

While our exam procedures have changed many times over my forty-plus years, with various consequences regarding number and level of games, the current procedure no longer has any impact on either number or level of games assigned (except zero games).

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Pass the exam (80% or better)? Get game assignments. Fail the exam? Attend a remedial rules and mechanics class and then get game assignments. Fail the exam and not attend a remedial rules and mechanics class? No game assignments for the season.

That being said, with me being very goal oriented, and with the current exam procedures that we have in place, I find it unfathomable that I, a forty-plus year veteran, who many on by local board consider to be a pretty good "rules guy" (my email box is full every morning with questions from colleagues about the exam) can't get a perfect score on an open book exam, an exam that I have three weeks to work on, an exam that we are strongly encouraged to work on with colleagues (study groups are organized and set up by our local board), and an exam with a cover sheet distributed at these study groups that gives us rule citations for every single question (but no answers).

And we can take the exam up to three times to pass (we're just given a total score each time, we are not given the questions we got wrong).

How many Forum members have it so easy on such exams? With such few consequences for a "bad" score?

Plus, I'm a retired empty-nester with all the time in the world to check and double check my answers. I even double check the easy questions.

And yet, I get a few questions wrong every year. It's embarrassing considering the conditions under which I take the exam.

If I can't have a good understanding of the rules under these extremely simple exam conditions, how can I confidently walk into a real gym and officiate a real game under much more adverse conditions?

Especially when something "weird" happens?

For me, this exam is all about pride and self confidence. With my arthritic foot, it's all I have left. Pride and self confidence (and experience).

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... contact the people that made the test. See what they think and what they were trying to accomplish by asking it.

As I've already stated, my local IAABO board will not release answers until November 18, 2022 at the earliest. After that, if I feel I don't understand an interpretation, I can contact my local interpreter, who always will answers my calls.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am aware of officials that have to get a certain score or they lose assignments or do not get the necessary points.

I get it. Used to be the same way here. Level of games (varsity or subvarsity). Number of assignments.

No more. With such high stakes, there was way too much exam cheating going on. There were answer sheets floating around that were not available to everybody, just to certain "connected" cliques.

[JRutledge]

You just posted 2 other things and no one answered or commented. I guess you do not see this as an issue.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

You just posted 2 other things and no one answered or commented. I guess you do not see this as an issue.

"Normal landing"? I no longer see it as an issue. I agreed with my friend at last week's study group, ignore the word "hesitates". It's a "normal landing". I feel confident in my answer. Nothing from the Forum has changed my mind.

Citation from IAABO helped me with the answer to the question about extra players on the court. I feel confident in my answer, team technical. Still wonder how it could be or should be answered without the helpful citation given by IAABO (not the NFHS).

Thanks to bob jenkins' post ("timeout must be requested for the specific purpose"), I'm confident in my answer to the "error discovered during a timeout" question.

Now I'm down to two questions, both regarding the words "basket/ring" and "backboard".

I'm leaning certain ways on both, but I'm still not 100% confident in my answers and not quite ready to submit my answers to those.

Feel free to offer an opinion.