What do you think about the new promotion study guide?

I'm assuming your talking about the "The Doctrine 2015 Army Study Guide"?

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While we have been encouraged to "convert" our semi-centralized board questions that we used to derive from the old FMs to the new ADP/ADRPs, this document was not intended to be a "Promotion" study guide.

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There is a lot of great information that will give Soldiers an overview of some of the more critical information in the new doctrine to know, but again, not intended for "board" purposes.

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The ability of Soldiers to memorize study guides is not a good indicator of their ability to train and take of Soldiers as NCOs. Situational based questions are much better tools to assess critical thinking and to determine whether someone is already thinking like an NCO.

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Now, for competition boards, I would probably utilize the study guide to gauge knowledge as that is what we're trying to determine from a competition board.