IMPORTANT NEWS: Officials will NOT be receiving a printed version of the rules exam this year. Instead, the rules exam will consist of a bank of multiple-choice questions, of which 25 will be used for your exam. Your 25 questions will be randomly selected and assigned to you when you sign-on to take the exam. There is no time limit to complete the exam and you may refer to your rule book during the exam. If you need to interrupt your exam, you will given the same 25 questions when you log on again.

The exam is currently being prepared and should be available online from August 10 - September 6. The online rules interpretation video should be available from August 10th to September 6th also. It is strongly recommended that officials view the rules video online BEFORE attempting the exam, as we now have the ability to tailor questions on the exam to situations unique to Illinois. The rules video will address these differences.

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The IHSA is making these changes in all sports, because we are now only a partial member of the NFHS. We will still use their playing rules in all sports, but we are not using their officiating exams. It has become cost-prohibitive to do so, and had we maintained full-member status, the resulting fee increase to us (as officials) would have been unreasonable.