Judge's Center Help Needed

[Mr. Froggy]

I'm studying to take my Judge Certification, but I've been having trouble. In the practice exams, have any of you found the questions somewhat ambiguous? Especially the Policy Practice one.. I find it hard to figure out how strict you need to be in your ruling if someone commits an Infraction. Do you guys have tricks?

:)

[PhanTom_lt]

I'm studying to take my Judge Certification, but I've been having trouble. In the practice exams, have any of you found the questions somewhat ambiguous? Especially the Policy Practice one.. I find it hard to figure out how strict you need to be in your ruling if someone commits an Infraction. Do you guys have tricks?

:)

The trick is to study and learn where you made the mistakes. You need to be as strict as the IPG/MTR/JAR tell you. :) I don't remember finding a lot of ambiguous questions, other than a few of grey areas between unsporting conduct - major or aggressive behaviour. But it's not likely to come up in the actual L1 exam, as you don't really need to know the policy anymore ( :( )

[Mr. Froggy]

I guess I should have said "grey area" instead. :P

Its kinda hard to be strict when reading the questions though, at least in my opinion. But I will study! :D

[cdr]

If you have a question about a judge test question, contact the person testing you or your regional coordinator and they should be able to help you.

Remember that all exam questions - including practice exam questions - are confidential.

[phazonmutant]

If you have a question about a judge test question, contact the person testing you or your regional coordinator and they should be able to help you.

Seconded on this. The regional coordinators are all great, knowledgeable judges and are always more than willing to help out.

As far as policy questions, you really just have to suppress your "gut feel" for how you'd handle a situation until you get more experience with official IPG philosophy. And of course, the best way to both answer questions and develop that intuition is to read the IPG a half dozen times. No seriously. The examples in there are very helpful, each infraction has a clear penalty and explicit downgrade paths (if they exist), and there's a blurb about philosophy after each penalty that help out a lot.