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Jake26 Sun Feb 16, 2014 04:50pm
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Originally Posted by Jake26 (Post 921850)
I had a question on my instance of the test that, based on the wording, I think was intended to reference MechaniGram A in the CCA Manual, but there was no information about the location of any runners. So I made an assumption, and I suspect this is the one I missed.
Nope. I missed one about a base umpire always (my emphasis) chases a fly ball near the fence and near the foul pole. This is FALSE (I marked TRUE) because, I am told, a rotated base umpire does not chase fly balls down the line out of their area of responsibility.

So the real question is "A base umpire chases out of his area of responsibility." Frankly, I find this a bogus question as originally worded. But that's me.

EsqUmp Mon Feb 17, 2014 02:10pm
I missed that one last year. I heard that over 50% if the test takers missed it. That is the sign of a bad question. I help write our state test and we would scrutinize the he'll out of a question and figure out what the problem with it was. We certainly wouldn't repeat a trick question. That question was in my test this year too.

Jake26 Mon Feb 17, 2014 02:34pm
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Originally Posted by esqump (Post 923295)
i missed that one last year. I heard that over 50% if the test takers missed it. That is the sign of a bad question. I help write our state test and we would scrutinize the he'll out of a question and figure out what the problem with it was. We certainly wouldn't repeat a trick question. That question was in my test this year too.
+1

CecilOne Mon Feb 17, 2014 04:45pm
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Originally Posted by Jake26 (Post 923132)
Nope. I missed one about a base umpire always (my emphasis) chases a fly ball near the fence and near the foul pole. This is FALSE (I marked TRUE) because, I am told, a rotated base umpire does not chase fly balls down the line out of their area of responsibility.

So the real question is "A base umpire chases out of his area of responsibility." Frankly, I find this a bogus question as originally worded. But that's me.
Me too.


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