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Originally Posted by Razor
Great advice, but at the same time, don't be over-the-top impossible to deal with, or the students lose their training effect. Eventually, you need to give some concession in the form of partial acceptance, some useful information or limited assistance in completing a task, otherwise the only thing the students will derive from the training is frustration and serious questions about the effectiveness of the techniques they've been taught to use.
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That's exactly right. And a good observer, grader, evaluator or whatever will monitor both sides of the scenario and tell you when to back it down a notch if the guys being evaluated are doing OK  or ratchet it up a notch if they're not. 
Richard 
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