The Teaching of Umpires

[Chess Ref]

Well a pretty good job was done for two pages . Yes i agree with all the suggestions. Going to clinics, self-studying , watching vet umpires and hanging around boards like this one is all definetly going to make me a better umpire.

I am thinking because I am an ex-professional student, currently not taking classes, I have been interested in minimum input -maximum output.. I am not talking about laziness or half A$$ing it, more of an efficency kind of thing.

Specifically referring to the practice of looking up answers, I just think that the current method is not very efficent. Do I have a better way, maybe, but some people have morality issues with it.

IMO, having the references available to look up the answers ,then looking up the answers and thinking about them works for me. a Kind of get in,get the job done,go home.
Passing tests around here is NOT my goal. being an ex-professional student I can figure out what kind of grade I will get ,before the test ,by the amount of time spent studying. My goal is to become the best official I can in the most timely and efficent manner.