The Test....

[Splute]

I found my practice test and this is how that question was worded:
A-1, while dribbling, intentionally pushes B-1. Official rules this a player control foul. Is the official correct?

The wording "intentionally pushes", did not register with me as an "intentional foul" when I first read it. To me it was a common foul; thus PC. However, I was inlightened by seasoned refs that when these terms are used (ie: intentional) that is the intent of the question.
Hope that helps clear up why I initially had trouble with this type question.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Splute

I found my practice test and this is how that question was worded:
A-1, while dribbling, intentionally pushes B-1. Official rules this a player control foul. Is the official correct?

The wording "intentionally pushes", did not register with me as an "intentional foul" when I first read it. To me it was a common foul; thus PC. However, I was inlightened by seasoned refs that when these terms are used (ie: intentional) that is the intent of the question.
Hope that helps clear up why I initially had trouble with this type question.

[Splute]

Ha, cute. I didnt say I was enlightened with spelling attributes.

[Idaho]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Glad to hear that you are now understanding how the definitions make this stuff work.
We tell our new officials that Rule 4 is the most important one. It contains everything that they need to know to figure out a complicated play. Study those definitions and you will have all that you need to work these things out for yourself.

And I've noticed this going through the tests. A lot of my rule references contain two citations, the second one most often being from rule 4.

[Camron Rust]

Another thing to remember...team A is the offensive team and team B is the defensive team. If there is a change of posession, the A's and B's refer to the status of the teams at the start.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

We're in agreement here. I didn't say they're made pointlessly more difficult. I said they're more difficult, and gave the same reason you did.
Why is what I wrote BS?

OK, perhaps I was a bit harsh. In your first sentence I infered that you believed the questions were worded it in a specific way merely for the sake of being more difficult....but not simply to be technically precise.