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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 08:31pm
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any word on the 208 exam
does any body know about the 2008 exam..i guess i needed to clarify what i wrote...has it come out and is it posted yet...
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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 08:40pm
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does any body know about the 2008 exam
Yes. It's 100 questions, true-false.
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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 08:47pm
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Yes. It's 100 questions, true-false.
And undoubtedly a couple of them will be impenetrably ambiguous.
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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 09:37pm
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If you want a copy of the 208 exam, just ask Jurassic.

And specify A.D. or B.C.
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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 10:37pm
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If you want a copy of the 208 exam, just ask Jurassic.

And specify A.D. or B.C.

Message to JR:

Please note that Mark asked you and not me.

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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 12:22am
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Please note that Mark asked you and not me.

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Yeah but I'll bet you still have your rule book from that year!
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Old Fri Sep 21, 2007, 08:42pm
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does any body know about the 2008 exam
Why are you asking?
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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 01:21am
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does any body know about the 2008 exam..i guess i needed to clarify what i wrote...has it come out and is it posted yet...
I haven't seen the actual exam itself, but a little birdie told me that if you just study the rule book, case book and official's manual, you won't have any problems at all. But as I say, I haven't actually seen it....
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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 06:52am
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does any body know about the 2008 exam..i guess i needed to clarify what i wrote...has it come out and is it posted yet...
The exam is out. I can also guarantee you that it won't be posted on this site. Why? Because that would be nothing but a blatant aid to cheating. Real officials don't cheat. Most states usually seem to write the exam some time in November while some others don't write until December. Having advance knowledge of what the questions are, let alone the answers, means that any individual getting that information is defeating the whole idea of having an exam. To be quite blunt, again, it is nothing but cheating.

Most states seem to have some kind of requirement that officials study and know the rules of a particular sport, and thus can be tested to see if they actually do so. Passing the test with certain minimum marks also seems to be a prerequisite in most states to becoming certified, to advance to higher ratings and also to qualify for state playoffs.

Unfortunately, every year around this time, a bunch of low-life scumballs (not you, Trooper. I'm sure that you'd never cheat) show up here with the sole intention of finding someone with the FED exam so that don't have to study and do the work needed to become better officials. And a sad fact of life is that there are other low-life scumballs out there who are willing to send the exam to them. There's no way that we can stop these low-life scumballs from their cheating ways (actually there is if we can find out where they come from ), but we can certainly try to drive them underground and get them to cheat somewhere else. It's kind of amazing too that these particular posters only show up on this site to get the exam or the answers; we never see them post anything else again because they really aren't interested in doing any of the work needed to actually learn the rules, only in cheating so that they don't have to learn those rules. They're only cheating themselves, but that doesn't seem to matter to them.

If anyone feels that any of the above is maybe a little over the top, may I suggest that you contact your state governing body and get their view on officials getting and sharing the current year's NFHS exam or answers before it's scheduled to be written in their state. Aamof, just post your city and state and I'll get the answer for you. It's real easy to do. And btw, just because one state holds it's exam on a certain date doesn't mean that all states have held their exam by that date. Anyone posting exam answers here might be doing so before everybody has written their local exam.

Individual exam questions are certainly welcome here for discussion. Posting the complete current exam or the answers to all exam questions isn't. Anybody doing so best be prepared for what might be called a rather unfriendly reception.

Does that give you all the info needed to answer your questions, Trooper?
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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 07:32am
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The exam is out. I can also guarantee you that it won't be posted on this site. Why? Because that would be nothing but a blatant aid to blah, blah, blah. . .
And in other news, the Sun rose today over the eastern horizon.

(Anybody not see Jurassic's post coming a mile away? )
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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 07:52am
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And in other news, the Sun rose today over the eastern horizon.

(Anybody not see Jurassic's post coming a mile away? )
Next time JR should just copy and paste this thread anytime someone says anything about the test in the future. It might save him some time.

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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 09:54am
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Next time JR should just copy and paste this thread anytime someone says anything about the test in the future. It might save him some time.
Not a bad idea, really. I could just add a few mofo's where needed.
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Old Mon Sep 24, 2007, 11:23am
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Where is Trooper?
No replies from Trooper yet... I wonder why?
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Old Tue Sep 25, 2007, 12:53pm
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i didnt realize asking would cause such an uproar.....
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Old Sat Sep 22, 2007, 02:21pm
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Next time JR should just copy and paste this thread anytime someone says anything about the test in the future. It might save him some time.

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Rut, I thought the reply was already on JR's hard drive in a word document. He just copied and pasted it here. IMO, It is similar every year to those who ask for the exam on a year basis.
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