FED test

[Umpire in Chief]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

[semper_fi_72]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

We have our test during our Association meeting tonight.

It can not possibly be 4 hours as our meetings are only 2 hours long.

Ours is 50 questions, so I been told.

We did have a 125 question Study Guide which had to be completed and answered then completed online for CIF.

CIF then sent us our grade and also advised our Instructional Chair what our score was.

I did spend a good 4 hours completing that, but it only had T/F and a two Rule Cites to pick from.

The 50 questions for the Certification Test are coming from the study guide.

I believe each State Organization can do what they want with NFHS testing questions to make their own test.

So it may be impracticable to compare what one state organization is compared to another.

[yawetag]

A copy I received had 100 questions. The first 31 were T/F, the rest were multiple choice. I took it the day I received it. Without using the rule book as a reference, I completed it in about an hour. I suspect that had I looked up the questions to verify my answers, it would have taken at least two hours, but definitely not 4 hours.

[semper_fi_72]

Took mine tonight as stated earlier.

50 T/F questions.

Missed 3 scored a 94.

Took about 12 minutes.

[JaxRolo]

Took mine tonight as stated earlier.

50 T/F questions.

Missed 3 scored a 94.

Took about 12 minutes.

WOW 12 minutes! I don't think I can check of 50 answers even with reading the questions! Good Job! :notworthy:

[Umpire in Chief]

Our old system was 100 T/F questions would take just about an hour.

I've heard from multiple people that it is very tough this year. I actually got an email from someone saying that last year they got a 90 and this year a 79.

I'm off on Thursday and plan on using 4 hours to take the test.

[LMSANS]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

I took the NJSIAA test on Sunday, through Arbiter. 100 questions, mix of T/F and multiple choice (75/25?). It took about 2 hours, not including pausing for dinner. That was looking a lot of things up. The wording was tricky, especially the mecjanics questions. A lot of ambiguity. I got an 87 (passing ).

[JaxRolo]

I'll be taking the Open Book FED test in a couple of days but I understand it is 50 Question not sure if all are T/F

I do know the closed book is 50 Questions in 1 hour.

[mstaylor]

I started the new style FED test. The questions aren't harder, it just seems that way because you have to look more stuff up to verify answers. You can fly through always, never, should and shalls buut when they give you A, B, A&B etc, it gets tougher. There are still a couple of BS questions but I like the format.

[JaxRolo]

The Fed test is easy if you know the answers! :confused:

[mstaylor]

I like it, but I looked a few up just to check wording. The purpose of the new test is to get you into the book so I have no problem looking.

[widac]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

Are you taking it online? I thought it was pretty tough. I got an 83 taking it straight through without looking stuff up and I am in the middle of taking it again. I think it's a good format, as Micheal says it forces you to study.

[JaxRolo]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

Are you taking it online? I thought it was pretty tough. I got an 83 taking it straight through without looking stuff up and I am in the middle of taking it again. I think it's a good format, as Micheal says it forces you to study.

I thought you could only take it once. :confused:

[mstaylor]

In MD, you can take it until you get better than a 75, once above that you are done. The part I don't like is, although you get your score in seconds, you done get what you missed until the testing deadline has passed. I prefer to know what I got wrong so I can correct myself before I see it happen on the field.

[Umpire in Chief]

Yes I take it online. I'm starting tomorrow.

I just found out I have to now take both the VA & the NC tests. In the past I could take the VA test and sent a print screen of the results to NC. So more fun for me.

[yawetag]

I just found out I have to now take both the VA & the NC tests. In the past I could take the VA test and sent a print screen of the results to NC. So more fun for me.

Just copy/paste your VA test, then use it for your NC test. I can't imagine there's too many different questions.

[Umpire in Chief]

I use to think the FED test was pretty universal, VA takes the same as anybody else, but apparently that's not true.

I will take the NC test when it becomes available online.

BTW scored a 97 on the VA test and took 3.5 hours, but also took a couple of breaks. It was pretty challenging.

[widac]

Okay I'll be taking my FED test Thursday, but I'm hearing from people that this test is much tougher than in the past and more closely resembles the NCAA test.

It is aparently not only true false, but 80% multiple choice. A good friend of mine told me to alot 4 or so hours to take this years test.

Have any of you taken it yet? What were your thoughts?

Is it as poorly written as before with poorly written/phrased questions?

Are you taking it online? I thought it was pretty tough. I got an 83 taking it straight through without looking stuff up and I am in the middle of taking it again. I think it's a good format, as Micheal says it forces you to study.

I thought you could only take it once.

In Oregon you can take it three times. It's on an OSAA (Oregon School Activities Association) page at Arbiter.

[JaxRolo]

Took my FED Test this Morning 50 question Scored a 94.

Before the test it said that it consisted of T/F and Multiple choice but when I took the test they were all T/F

I'm happy with it I just wish I knew which 3 questions I missed. :shakehead:

[Umpire in Chief]

In VA if you score below an 80 you can take it again 1 time.

[mstaylor]

If it is an online test then both states should be the same, the difference being the order. Even in the same state each person gets a different order. Probably they have no means to share the test info between states, hence taking it twice.

[JaxRolo]

If it is an online test then both states should be the same, the difference being the order. Even in the same state each person gets a different order. Probably they have no means to share the test info between states, hence taking it twice.

I am not convinced it is the same test in different sates. Some of you have mentioned getting Multiple choice questions. On my test it was all T/F.

[mstaylor]

There are three types of FED test, electronic, T/F and a state freelance which can be anything. The electronic is about a 70/30 split multible choice to T/F and loads randomly to each tester. The T/F can be paper or electronic but is the same for all. Some states have their own and be anything but many are only 50 questions. Of the standard T/F tests there is a Part I and a Part II. Some states require different things with these. We used to get Part I as a pretest and study guide, then Part II as the actual test.

[Jboval]

Took the Florida NFHS last night online. It was the open book test, but....couldn't find my darn book! Thought what the heck, took it anyway. 50 questions, no time limit. Took me 20 minutes, got a 92%. Was pretty easy I thought. Now that I think back, I would say about 70% T/F and rest Multiple Choice.

[Umpire in Chief]

If your registered with NFHS you can access the books online.