NCAA RECRUITING EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
During an OFFICIAL visit, a member institution may provide reasonable entertainment
to a prospective student-athlete and his or her parents, legal guardians or spouse within
how many miles of the institution's campus? - Answer-30 miles.
Permissible video/audio materials must be created by an entity within the institution. -
Answer-TRUE
General information (e.g., information not created for recruiting purposes) posted to an
institution's website (e.g., press release, competition schedule) may be sent to a
prospective student-athlete via permissible electronic correspondence or such
information may be printed and provided to a prospective student-athlete as an
attachment to general correspondence or during any permissible on- or off-campus
contact. - Answer-TRUE
During an OFFICIAL visit or UNOFFICIAL visit, a prospective student-athlete may
attend an event in which current or former student-athletes are trying out with a
professional team(s). - Answer-FALSE
A institutional staff member may initate phone calls to or receive phone calls from a
prospective student-athlete during the five days immediately preceding the prospective
student-athlete's official visit and during the official visit. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for a director of operations (or other noncoaching staff member with
sport-specific responsibilities) to attend a local athletics event involving prospective
student-athletes and have recruiting conversations with the prospective student-
athlete's relatives or legal guardian(s) who are attending the event. - Answer-FALSE
Who is permitted to contact and evaluate prospective student-athletes off-campus for
athletics recruiting purposes? - Answer-Coaches who are counted among the numerical
limitations of countable coaches and who have successfully passed the NCAA Coaches
Certification Exam.
In sports other than men's ice hockey and skiing, before initial full-time collegiate
enrollment, an individual may compete on a professional team, provided he or she does
not receive more than actual and necessary expenses to participate on the team. -
Answer-TRUE
, An institution may not provide a written offer of athletically related aid, or indicate in
writing to the prospective student-athlete that an athletically related grant-in-aid will be
offered by the institution, until August 1 of the prospective student-athlete's senior year
in high school. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for an institutional administrator to co-sign or provide a loan to a
prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's relatives or friends. -
Answer-FALSE
After a prospective student-athlete commits to the institution per Bylaw 13.02.13.1, it is
permissible to have media present during recruiting contact with the prospective
student-athlete. - Answer-FALSE
Prior to September 1 of a prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school, it is
permissible for an institution's coach to engage in recruiting conversations during the
institution's camps or clinics. - Answer-FALSE
An individual who has officially registered and enrolled in a minimum full-time program
of studies in any quarter or semester at a collegiate institution and was present at the
institution on the opening day of classes has triggered transfer status. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for an institution to arrange employment for a recruited prospective
student-athlete within the athletics department ticket office, provided the employment
does not begin prior to the completion of the prospective student-athlete's senior year of
high school. - Answer-TRUE
An institution's camp or clinic brochure may be placed in high school, two-year college
or nonscholastic game programs. - Answer-FALSE
A coaching staff member may be employed at a noninstitutional, privately owned camp
in which a high school athletics award winner is employed. - Answer-FALSE
A high school prospective student-athlete may take a maximum of ____ expense-paid
visits to Division I institutions, with not more than one permitted per institution,
regardless of whether the prospective student-athlete is involved in more than one
sport. - Answer-FIVE
It is permissible for an institution's director of athletics to send a prospective student-
athlete a congratulatory note after he or she has signed a National Letter of Intent or the
institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, or the institution has received
his or her financial deposit in response to its offer of admission - Answer-TRUE
Before a prospective student-athlete commits to the institution per Bylaw 13.02.13.1, at
what time is it permissible for a coach to make in-person, off-campus contact with a
NONQUALIFIER who is enrolled in the first year at a two-year college? - Answer-After
completion of the first year of enrollment at the two-year college.
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
During an OFFICIAL visit, a member institution may provide reasonable entertainment
to a prospective student-athlete and his or her parents, legal guardians or spouse within
how many miles of the institution's campus? - Answer-30 miles.
Permissible video/audio materials must be created by an entity within the institution. -
Answer-TRUE
General information (e.g., information not created for recruiting purposes) posted to an
institution's website (e.g., press release, competition schedule) may be sent to a
prospective student-athlete via permissible electronic correspondence or such
information may be printed and provided to a prospective student-athlete as an
attachment to general correspondence or during any permissible on- or off-campus
contact. - Answer-TRUE
During an OFFICIAL visit or UNOFFICIAL visit, a prospective student-athlete may
attend an event in which current or former student-athletes are trying out with a
professional team(s). - Answer-FALSE
A institutional staff member may initate phone calls to or receive phone calls from a
prospective student-athlete during the five days immediately preceding the prospective
student-athlete's official visit and during the official visit. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for a director of operations (or other noncoaching staff member with
sport-specific responsibilities) to attend a local athletics event involving prospective
student-athletes and have recruiting conversations with the prospective student-
athlete's relatives or legal guardian(s) who are attending the event. - Answer-FALSE
Who is permitted to contact and evaluate prospective student-athletes off-campus for
athletics recruiting purposes? - Answer-Coaches who are counted among the numerical
limitations of countable coaches and who have successfully passed the NCAA Coaches
Certification Exam.
In sports other than men's ice hockey and skiing, before initial full-time collegiate
enrollment, an individual may compete on a professional team, provided he or she does
not receive more than actual and necessary expenses to participate on the team. -
Answer-TRUE
, An institution may not provide a written offer of athletically related aid, or indicate in
writing to the prospective student-athlete that an athletically related grant-in-aid will be
offered by the institution, until August 1 of the prospective student-athlete's senior year
in high school. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for an institutional administrator to co-sign or provide a loan to a
prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's relatives or friends. -
Answer-FALSE
After a prospective student-athlete commits to the institution per Bylaw 13.02.13.1, it is
permissible to have media present during recruiting contact with the prospective
student-athlete. - Answer-FALSE
Prior to September 1 of a prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school, it is
permissible for an institution's coach to engage in recruiting conversations during the
institution's camps or clinics. - Answer-FALSE
An individual who has officially registered and enrolled in a minimum full-time program
of studies in any quarter or semester at a collegiate institution and was present at the
institution on the opening day of classes has triggered transfer status. - Answer-TRUE
It is permissible for an institution to arrange employment for a recruited prospective
student-athlete within the athletics department ticket office, provided the employment
does not begin prior to the completion of the prospective student-athlete's senior year of
high school. - Answer-TRUE
An institution's camp or clinic brochure may be placed in high school, two-year college
or nonscholastic game programs. - Answer-FALSE
A coaching staff member may be employed at a noninstitutional, privately owned camp
in which a high school athletics award winner is employed. - Answer-FALSE
A high school prospective student-athlete may take a maximum of ____ expense-paid
visits to Division I institutions, with not more than one permitted per institution,
regardless of whether the prospective student-athlete is involved in more than one
sport. - Answer-FIVE
It is permissible for an institution's director of athletics to send a prospective student-
athlete a congratulatory note after he or she has signed a National Letter of Intent or the
institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, or the institution has received
his or her financial deposit in response to its offer of admission - Answer-TRUE
Before a prospective student-athlete commits to the institution per Bylaw 13.02.13.1, at
what time is it permissible for a coach to make in-person, off-campus contact with a
NONQUALIFIER who is enrolled in the first year at a two-year college? - Answer-After
completion of the first year of enrollment at the two-year college.
