Rule modification regarding test questions/answers

[Chimpie]

This afternoon I made a slight rule modification. I would have thought common sense would prevail in this situation, but since it hasn't here's the old rule and the new one.

Participants are not to post any testing questions from the NREMT or any other licensing agency.

The bolded parts were added to the above.

Participants are not to post any testing questions or answers from the NREMT or any other licensing or testing agency.

If you have any questions please post them below.

 

[Anjel]

So ooo... If someone says...

"hey guys I was asked this question on a test. And I'm not sure what the answer is...."

Are we not allowed to answer them?

 

[Chimpie]

So ooo... If someone says...

"hey guys I was asked this question on a test. And I'm not sure what the answer is...."

Are we not allowed to answer them?

Great question. Yes, in this circumstance you're allowed to answer the question.

The rule is to deter people from just posting the answers to tests they recently took. It has been a trend lately.

 

[NomadicMedic]

What about people who post questions from a test prep service like JB learning? There have been some of those threads lately, and I noticed one was closed. Since those are not "real test questions" they seem like they would be fair game for the forum. Am I wrong?

 

[ffemt8978]

The problem with that is that how are we to know if they are from JBLearning or the NREMT?

Like Chimpie said, we will still allow the questions like Anjel1030 paraphrased. Our big issue with those types of questions is when they post the 4 answers from the test. If they just asked the question and let our members answer it without having to choose from a list of possible answers, we have a lot more leeway in dealing with it.

 

[NomadicMedic]

Understood.

I'm just too nice. If someone tells me it's a prep question, I take em at their word.

 

[Chimpie]

Understood.

I'm just too nice. If someone tells me it's a prep question, I take em at their word.

We try (and want} to do that as well.

But when someone posts all the answers to a test that they "just recently took", we have to make an adjustment. ^_^

 

[Joe]

Hopefully this goes for the Ca dmv ambulance drivers test...

 

[Chimpie]

Hopefully this goes for the Ca dmv ambulance drivers test...

We look at each post individually and make the judgement call from there.