ASA Test: bait and switch

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When the ASA 2010 Umpire Exam was posted on the web site, I printed it out and started looking up references for the answers.

I paid my local dues and got my package including the 2010 rule book, test answer sheet, and Umpire Exam in a booklet form.

I received my scored test back and had 2 questions marked wrong that astounded me. So I called my Regional UIC who scored the test and asked him about the answers. I had the correct answers but the sequence of the answers changed from the web version to the packet version. I never bothered to check that every answer sequence was the same from web to packet.

In the Alternative Fast Pitch Multiple Choice Questions, this is the web version:

36. (FP Only) With one out and R1 and 3B, R2 on 2B, B4 hits a ground ball to F6 who is bumped by R2 while
advancing to 3B. R1 has not reached home plate at the time of the collision. The umpire should:
a) Call a “Delayed Dead Ball” and see how the play develops and apply the penalty after viewing the play.
b) Call a “Dead Ball” and rule the B4 out and send R1 and R2 back to 2B and 3B.
c) Call a “Dead Ball,” rule R2 out, put B4 on 1B and return R1 to 3B.
d) Call a “Dead Ball,” rule R2 out , put B4 on 1B and award R1 Home.

The packet version of the test:

36. (FP Only) With one out and R1 and 3B, R2 on 2B, B4 hits a ground ball to F6 who is bumped by R2 while
advancing to 3B. R1 has not reached home plate at the time of the collision. The umpire should:
a) Call a “Delayed Dead Ball” and see how the play develops and apply the penalty after viewing the play.
b) Call a “Dead Ball,” rule R2 out, put B4 on 1B and return R1 to 3B.
c) Call a “Dead Ball” and rule the B4 out and send R1 and R2 back to 2B and 3B
d) Call a “Dead Ball,” rule R2 out , put B4 on 1B and award R1 Home.

The same thing happened on another question.

Web version:

24. Jones listed ninth in the batting order is replaced by a substitute after reaching 1B safely. Later in the game, Jones re-enters as a runner for a teammate listed third in the order at 2B.
a) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is disqualified and replaced by a legal substitute.
b) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is called out
c) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is declared out and disqualified.
d) This is legal.

Packet version:

24. Jones listed ninth in the batting order is replaced by a substitute after reaching 1B safely. Later in the game, Jones re-enters as a runner for a teammate listed third in the order at 2B.
a) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is declared out and disqualified.
b) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is called out
c) This is an illegal re-entry and Jones is disqualified and replaced by a legal substitute.
d) This is legal.

Anyone else get caught in this trap? Why would there be different versions of a test?