PICKLEBALL REVISION EXAM 2025/2026 ALL QUESTIOS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The correct receiver is the only player who may return a served ball. If the wrong
player returns the ball, it is a point for the serving team. [Rule 4.N.1.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If a served ball hits the net and strikes the receiver or the receiver's partner before
hitting the court surface, it is a point for the serving team. [Rule 4.A.9.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If your paddle touches the non-volley zone during a volley swing, it is a fault
regardless of whether the touch occurred before or after contacting the ball. [Rule
9.B.2.] - ✔✔True
✔✔A ball can be hit twice, but only during an unintentional, continuous, single-direction
stroke. If the stroke is not continuous, not single-direction, or if it is a definite second
push, the hit is illegal. [Rule 11.A.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If you ask your opponent's opinion about whether a ball was "in" or "out," you must
accept their opinion. [Rule 6.D.6.] - ✔✔True
✔✔Yelling, "It's going to be out!," when your opponent is about to return your lob, could
be considered a distraction and a fault could be called on you. [Rule 11.J.] - ✔✔True
✔✔During an extended exchange of crosscourt dinks, your opponent suddenly steps in
the non-volley zone and then onto the adjacent out-of-bounds area so he can get closer
to the net to smash a volley return. Is this legal? [Rule 9.D.] - ✔✔Yes, as long as both
feet make contact with the area outside the non-volley zone before the ball is struck.
✔✔Your partner notices that your opponent has committed a non-volley zone fault, so
he calls it. This is permissible. [Rule 9.I.]. - ✔✔True
✔✔Team B's 2nd server, serves into the net. The referee says, "Side Out". Team A is
now about to serve at 9-8-1. The starting server for Team A (the player wearing the
visible form of identification) should be serving from the right court. [Rule 4.B.6.b.]. -
✔✔False
✔✔Your opponent hits a powerful overhead to the sideline. You suspect that it might
have been "out," but you're not certain. What are your options? [Rule 6.D.3.] - ✔✔1. Ask
your partner 2. Ask your opponent 3. All of the above are correct
✔✔When your right-handed partner serves from the left service court, he stands very
near the court center line. His feet are within the proper service area, but when his
paddle contacts the ball, the paddle is slightly across the imaginary extension of the
, center line, above the playing surface of the right-hand court. Your opponents protest
that this is not allowed. This is allowed. [Rule 4.A.3.] - ✔✔True
✔✔Your opponent hits a shot low over the net. You are positioned just behind the non-
volley zone (NVZ) line and stretch to return the ball before it bounces. In the process
your paddle scrapes the NVZ court surface just before you volley the ball. This is a non-
volley zone fault because your paddle touched the non-volley zone during the act of
volleying swing. [Rule 9.B.] - ✔✔True
✔✔You volley a ball from just behind the non-volley zone (NVZ) line. During the follow-
through, your paddle strikes your partner's shoulder. This is a NVZ fault because your
partner's right foot was on the NVZ line when you struck him. [Rule 9.C.] - ✔✔True
✔✔The server is allowed 2 lets in a row; the third will be considered a fault. [Rule 4.O.] -
✔✔False
✔✔A receiver who attempts to return the serve is considered to have been ready. [Rule
4.E.3.] - ✔✔True
✔✔In a match without a referee, the starting server (the player wearing the visible form
of identification) for each game, starts from the right-hand court, and should state the
score as "zero-zero-two."[Rule 4.B.6.b.] - ✔✔True
✔✔During the side switch, you have up to 1 minute to switch sides and get in the ready
position to resume play. No coaching is allowed during the side switch. [5.B.6.] -
✔✔True
✔✔Players are responsible for line calls on their side of the net. If the opponents hit a
ball close to a line, the player or team that is supposed to make the line call may appeal
to the referee without making a call. (6.D.3) - ✔✔True
✔✔A fault shall be declared if a player, or anything the player is wearing or carrying,
crosses the plane of the net, or the extended plane of the net, before striking the ball.
[Rule 11.I] If a ball has bounced and crosses back over the plane of the net, then a
player may cross the plane of the net without first contacting the ball. [Rule 11.I.1] -
✔✔True
✔✔In sanctioned play without a referee, a player is allowed to call a service foot fault on
the opponent.[Rule 13.D.1.b] - ✔✔True
✔✔In sanctioned play without a referee, players may call service foot faults and non-
volley zone faults on the opponents.[Rule 13.D.1.b] - ✔✔True
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The correct receiver is the only player who may return a served ball. If the wrong
player returns the ball, it is a point for the serving team. [Rule 4.N.1.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If a served ball hits the net and strikes the receiver or the receiver's partner before
hitting the court surface, it is a point for the serving team. [Rule 4.A.9.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If your paddle touches the non-volley zone during a volley swing, it is a fault
regardless of whether the touch occurred before or after contacting the ball. [Rule
9.B.2.] - ✔✔True
✔✔A ball can be hit twice, but only during an unintentional, continuous, single-direction
stroke. If the stroke is not continuous, not single-direction, or if it is a definite second
push, the hit is illegal. [Rule 11.A.] - ✔✔True
✔✔If you ask your opponent's opinion about whether a ball was "in" or "out," you must
accept their opinion. [Rule 6.D.6.] - ✔✔True
✔✔Yelling, "It's going to be out!," when your opponent is about to return your lob, could
be considered a distraction and a fault could be called on you. [Rule 11.J.] - ✔✔True
✔✔During an extended exchange of crosscourt dinks, your opponent suddenly steps in
the non-volley zone and then onto the adjacent out-of-bounds area so he can get closer
to the net to smash a volley return. Is this legal? [Rule 9.D.] - ✔✔Yes, as long as both
feet make contact with the area outside the non-volley zone before the ball is struck.
✔✔Your partner notices that your opponent has committed a non-volley zone fault, so
he calls it. This is permissible. [Rule 9.I.]. - ✔✔True
✔✔Team B's 2nd server, serves into the net. The referee says, "Side Out". Team A is
now about to serve at 9-8-1. The starting server for Team A (the player wearing the
visible form of identification) should be serving from the right court. [Rule 4.B.6.b.]. -
✔✔False
✔✔Your opponent hits a powerful overhead to the sideline. You suspect that it might
have been "out," but you're not certain. What are your options? [Rule 6.D.3.] - ✔✔1. Ask
your partner 2. Ask your opponent 3. All of the above are correct
✔✔When your right-handed partner serves from the left service court, he stands very
near the court center line. His feet are within the proper service area, but when his
paddle contacts the ball, the paddle is slightly across the imaginary extension of the
, center line, above the playing surface of the right-hand court. Your opponents protest
that this is not allowed. This is allowed. [Rule 4.A.3.] - ✔✔True
✔✔Your opponent hits a shot low over the net. You are positioned just behind the non-
volley zone (NVZ) line and stretch to return the ball before it bounces. In the process
your paddle scrapes the NVZ court surface just before you volley the ball. This is a non-
volley zone fault because your paddle touched the non-volley zone during the act of
volleying swing. [Rule 9.B.] - ✔✔True
✔✔You volley a ball from just behind the non-volley zone (NVZ) line. During the follow-
through, your paddle strikes your partner's shoulder. This is a NVZ fault because your
partner's right foot was on the NVZ line when you struck him. [Rule 9.C.] - ✔✔True
✔✔The server is allowed 2 lets in a row; the third will be considered a fault. [Rule 4.O.] -
✔✔False
✔✔A receiver who attempts to return the serve is considered to have been ready. [Rule
4.E.3.] - ✔✔True
✔✔In a match without a referee, the starting server (the player wearing the visible form
of identification) for each game, starts from the right-hand court, and should state the
score as "zero-zero-two."[Rule 4.B.6.b.] - ✔✔True
✔✔During the side switch, you have up to 1 minute to switch sides and get in the ready
position to resume play. No coaching is allowed during the side switch. [5.B.6.] -
✔✔True
✔✔Players are responsible for line calls on their side of the net. If the opponents hit a
ball close to a line, the player or team that is supposed to make the line call may appeal
to the referee without making a call. (6.D.3) - ✔✔True
✔✔A fault shall be declared if a player, or anything the player is wearing or carrying,
crosses the plane of the net, or the extended plane of the net, before striking the ball.
[Rule 11.I] If a ball has bounced and crosses back over the plane of the net, then a
player may cross the plane of the net without first contacting the ball. [Rule 11.I.1] -
✔✔True
✔✔In sanctioned play without a referee, a player is allowed to call a service foot fault on
the opponent.[Rule 13.D.1.b] - ✔✔True
✔✔In sanctioned play without a referee, players may call service foot faults and non-
volley zone faults on the opponents.[Rule 13.D.1.b] - ✔✔True
