YMCA LIFEGUARDING 2026 CORE EXAM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How do you perform a compact jump entry? - ✔✔This jump should be done from an
elevated position, like an elevated lifeguard stand, into water that is 5+ feet deep
- Hold rescue tube horizontally under your arms or against your chest
- Jump into the water with both feet parallel to the water surface and your knees bent.
Hold the excess line in your hand
- As you hit the water, bend knees slightly to absorb the shock
- Allow the rescue tube to lift you to the surface
✔✔How do you perform a stride jump entry? - ✔✔If water is 5+ feet deep and from a
height of no more than 3 feet, this jump is optimal for maintaining eye contact and
entering the water quickly
- Hold your arms out from your sides, hands slightly above your shoulders, holding the
rescue tube in one hand
- Lean forward with your chest ahead of your hips and step out away from the edge,
with legs wide apart in a giant A-shaped stride
- While over the water and clear of the edge, drop the rescue tube to the side and
behind you
- As your body enters the water, force your legs together doing a scissors kick. As arms
touch the water, bring them forward to slow your downward motion and keep your head
above water
✔✔What are the "safe in six"? - ✔✔- Prevent
- Recognize
- Activate Emergency action plan (EAP)
- Rescue
- Emergency Care
- Report
(PRERCR)
✔✔How many people die from drowning every year in the US? - ✔✔3,600
✔✔How many victims of fatal drownings are children 14 and under? - ✔✔About one in
five
✔✔What are the early warning signs in the water? - ✔✔- Erratic behavior
- Weak stroke
- Hair in eyes
- Glassy/anxious looking eyes
- Two heads together (possible double drowning)
- Hand waving (common signal for help)
- Unknowingly moving head towards rock/pier
- Clinging to objects
, - Negative buoyancy
- Inability to verbally respond
✔✔How should you ask questions to a conscious spinal cord injury victim? What are
some questions to ask? - ✔✔Ask for VERBAL answers, do not let victim tilt head when
answering questions!
- Do you know what happened?
- Do you have any pain anywhere? How much pain do you have?
- Do you feel light-headed? Are you nauseated?
- Can you feel your arms and legs? Can you move your arms and legs?
- Are you having difficulty breathing?
- Do you feel weak?
- Are you cold?
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim from the front? - ✔✔- Approach victim from
the front
- Bring the tube in front of you and turn it in edge. Hold the rescue tube with one hand at
the nise and the other hand at the center
- Press the nose across the front of the victim and under one arm
- Push the victim's arm down on the rescue device
- Once victim grabs the device, continue to give reassurance
- If the victim does not grab the rescue tube, help the victim hold on by quickly pushing
the victim's arm down, trapping it under their arm
- Remind the victim to hold on
- Hold the victim's arm and use a rescue kick, continue to reassure them
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim from the rear? - ✔✔- Approach the victim
from the rear
- Push the nose of the tube across victim's back and under victim's arm
- Take hand off the nose and place it on the victim's upper arm
- Press the victim's arm down, trapping the rescue tube or buoy
- Tow the victim to safety
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim that is just below the surface? - ✔✔-
Approach the front and slightly to the side of the victim
- Place rescue tube so it is between you and the victim
- Reach over the tube and grab the victim's wrist or forearm
- Pull that arm up and over the rescue tube or buoy to keep victim afloat on the surface
- (Follow all other procedures for a conscious victim)
✔✔How do you rescue an injured, conscious victim on the surface? (HINT: first priority
is to keep the victim afloat and breathing, secondary goal is to avoid further injury due to
movement) - ✔✔Upper extremity injury:
- Perform a conscious victim rescue from either front or rear
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How do you perform a compact jump entry? - ✔✔This jump should be done from an
elevated position, like an elevated lifeguard stand, into water that is 5+ feet deep
- Hold rescue tube horizontally under your arms or against your chest
- Jump into the water with both feet parallel to the water surface and your knees bent.
Hold the excess line in your hand
- As you hit the water, bend knees slightly to absorb the shock
- Allow the rescue tube to lift you to the surface
✔✔How do you perform a stride jump entry? - ✔✔If water is 5+ feet deep and from a
height of no more than 3 feet, this jump is optimal for maintaining eye contact and
entering the water quickly
- Hold your arms out from your sides, hands slightly above your shoulders, holding the
rescue tube in one hand
- Lean forward with your chest ahead of your hips and step out away from the edge,
with legs wide apart in a giant A-shaped stride
- While over the water and clear of the edge, drop the rescue tube to the side and
behind you
- As your body enters the water, force your legs together doing a scissors kick. As arms
touch the water, bring them forward to slow your downward motion and keep your head
above water
✔✔What are the "safe in six"? - ✔✔- Prevent
- Recognize
- Activate Emergency action plan (EAP)
- Rescue
- Emergency Care
- Report
(PRERCR)
✔✔How many people die from drowning every year in the US? - ✔✔3,600
✔✔How many victims of fatal drownings are children 14 and under? - ✔✔About one in
five
✔✔What are the early warning signs in the water? - ✔✔- Erratic behavior
- Weak stroke
- Hair in eyes
- Glassy/anxious looking eyes
- Two heads together (possible double drowning)
- Hand waving (common signal for help)
- Unknowingly moving head towards rock/pier
- Clinging to objects
, - Negative buoyancy
- Inability to verbally respond
✔✔How should you ask questions to a conscious spinal cord injury victim? What are
some questions to ask? - ✔✔Ask for VERBAL answers, do not let victim tilt head when
answering questions!
- Do you know what happened?
- Do you have any pain anywhere? How much pain do you have?
- Do you feel light-headed? Are you nauseated?
- Can you feel your arms and legs? Can you move your arms and legs?
- Are you having difficulty breathing?
- Do you feel weak?
- Are you cold?
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim from the front? - ✔✔- Approach victim from
the front
- Bring the tube in front of you and turn it in edge. Hold the rescue tube with one hand at
the nise and the other hand at the center
- Press the nose across the front of the victim and under one arm
- Push the victim's arm down on the rescue device
- Once victim grabs the device, continue to give reassurance
- If the victim does not grab the rescue tube, help the victim hold on by quickly pushing
the victim's arm down, trapping it under their arm
- Remind the victim to hold on
- Hold the victim's arm and use a rescue kick, continue to reassure them
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim from the rear? - ✔✔- Approach the victim
from the rear
- Push the nose of the tube across victim's back and under victim's arm
- Take hand off the nose and place it on the victim's upper arm
- Press the victim's arm down, trapping the rescue tube or buoy
- Tow the victim to safety
✔✔How do you rescue a conscious victim that is just below the surface? - ✔✔-
Approach the front and slightly to the side of the victim
- Place rescue tube so it is between you and the victim
- Reach over the tube and grab the victim's wrist or forearm
- Pull that arm up and over the rescue tube or buoy to keep victim afloat on the surface
- (Follow all other procedures for a conscious victim)
✔✔How do you rescue an injured, conscious victim on the surface? (HINT: first priority
is to keep the victim afloat and breathing, secondary goal is to avoid further injury due to
movement) - ✔✔Upper extremity injury:
- Perform a conscious victim rescue from either front or rear
