IMPORTANT!  READ THIS:

• The ONLY marks (other than bubbled-in headers and answers) allowed on scorecards are:
   
  • Your name and the field number (only on the appropriate lines at the top of the front page only of the Land Judging or Homesite Evaluation card).
     
  • If necessary, some minor arithmetic to compute the change in thickness of the topsoil in determining degree of erosion
     
  • A maximum of seven roman or arabic numerals corresponding with your estimate of the best possible land classes associated with the seven appropriate soil characteristics (i.e., surface texture, organic matter, rooting zone, permeability, slope, erosion, and drainage) identified at the field site on Part One of the Land Judging Card.  Put another way: One and only one numeral may be written on the card for each appropriate soil characteristic (i.e., surface texture, organic matter, rooting zone, permeability, slope, erosion, and drainage).
     
  • Note: Numerals identifying the best possible land class of every possible answer (e.g., for “Thin,” “Thick,” “Very Thick,” “Rapid,” “Moderate,” “Slow,” and so on) may NOT be written on the scorecard!!!  Note also: On Part Two of the Land Judging Card, no markings, other than the filling in of bubbles in the header and answer areas, are allowed whatsoever!!!
     
  • Note also: On the Homesite Evaluation card, no markings, other than the filling in the name and field number lines, computing the change in topsoil thickness, and bubbling in headers and answers, are allowed whatsoever anywhere on the card, front or back!!!
     
• Any allowed markings (described above) should be
   
  • Made lightly in pencil
     
  • Kept clear of the scoring fields, i.e., placed only on the right-hand side of the card, outside and well away from the large boxes where your answers are entered
     
  • Left on the card as written and not erased
     
• Notes, numbers, or other markings from training materials, memory, or other sources (including Conditions Posters), other than the allowed SEVEN numerals and the erosion computation described above, are NOT to be written anywhere on your scorecards!
   
  • Any scorecard with such notes, numbers, and/or marks (from training materials, memory, or other sources) written on it will be assigned a score of 0 (zero)!!!
     
  • Evidence of non-allowed notes/numbers/markings that have been written on a card and then erased will also cause a score of 0 (zero) to be assigned to that card!!!

Click here for scorecard EXAMPLES showing acceptable and unacceptable markings (PDF version).