Sample test Qs are fun-Not!

[grunewar]

Surely they realize we discuss/struggle every yr?! Yes?

Why can't it just say - T/F - Each team is granted one additional time out without penalty at the start of the first overtime period.

Or is that no good too? (I am not mister grammar guy, but I did stay at a Holliday Inn Express last night).

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Why does the NF write the questions in this manner?

IAABO exams are probably as bad, if not worse. Why can't they pay a high school English teacher to sit down with the committee to go over the final draft?

[zeedonk]

You all should know that our cadet sup drafted the question, it wasn't taken from a past IAABO exam.

Most of the responses were voiced at some point during our discussion in class, and there were many differing opinions. I suppose that I am beginning to get very worried about the structure of the questions if this is any example of what to look for in November...

I have some old refresher exams and prior IAABO tests to review and I hope to not see a lot of this type of problem. It's not so much improper grammar, but the language is just plain confusing... we are told not to "read into" the question, just deal with what it says, yet on at least 3 questions last week, we were told that we were to use certain assumptions in answering the questions, yet there is no indication of assuming anything in the question...

I don't want to beat this to death (lots of folks have passed the exam who are above and below my level of schooling), but I think its a problem...