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The United States National Range Officers Institute was designed to establish a structure for the creation, accreditation, recognition, and maintenance for USPSA members wishing to become match officials. Following the goals of the Range Officer Creed, the organization ensures that Range Officers are the best trained, the best qualified, and the best prepared, to a same world-wide standard, in conjunction with IPSC/IROA officials. There exists a direct relationship between the quality of the officiating, and the quality of the competition. Officials can enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow staff, and be proud to be a part of the fraternity of officiating.

The Purpose and Goals of NROI
  • Establish national training standards for Range Officials.
  • Advise on aspects relating to the safe conduct of competition.
  • Advise on rules of competition and principles of good course design.
  • Certify and recertify Officials.
  • Serve and support local and national USPSA matches.
  • Where relevant, offer support for international matches.



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    Online Exams Now Active

    The online exam system for NROI-certified officials is now up and running.
    If you've been expired for six months or less you will be able to log in to
    the member lookup at www.uspsa.org to take the exam online. Here are some general guidelines on how this will work:

    1) Membership must be current to access this feature.

    2) Members will get instant results once an exam is submitted for scoring.
    No more waiting for the mail to find out if you passed!

    3) Exams can be started, saved, and completed at a later time. If you don't
    get it all done in one sitting, no worries, the system will save your
    progress and allow you to go back to finish later.

    4) If you have difficulty with an exam, or a question about your results, we
    will be able to log in and see exactly what you're seeing.

    5) Officials will have three (3) chances to pass the exam. This should be
    more than adequate. If you find that you are unable to pass the exam within
    three tries, we will be happy to hook you up with an instructor for some
    remedial training. We want to help you succeed!

    6) Exams can be printed so you'll have a copy for your records, if you so
    desire.

    7) Members will need their PIN to access the exam from the member look up
    page. The PIN is a 7 digit number which may be found on your Front Sight
    mailing label. Each issue of Front Sight will contain a new PIN, and the
    pins on your two most recent issues of Front Sight will be accepted by the
    system.

    (It's generally much easier to remember a password you chose than to remember a 7 digit number which changes every time a new Front Sight comes out. You may use your PIN to configure a personal access password which will not change with each issue of Front Sight. You may use your personal password, or the PIN from your most recent copy of Front Sight magazine to change your password at any time. Please follow this link to go to the page that will allow you to set a personal password.)

    8) If you have been expired for more than six months, please email us at nroi@uspsa.org and we'll send you a long version of the exam as per NROI policy. Officials expired for more than a year will be required to take the course again. Please see this page for all of our recertification policies.

    9) Once you successfully pass the exam, NROI HQ will be notified and will send out your new packet confirming recertification. You will NOT need to call HQ to inform us that you passed or failed. However, persons who pass their exam will not see their updated certification reflected on the classification page until after the next monthly update, starting with the November 2008 update.

    10) We will be changing from quarterly exams to monthly. This means that once a month we will add exams for anyone set to expire the next month. For example, if you are due to expire in November, the exam will be added to
    your classification page in October.

    That's it! Thanks so much for all your patience with us during this process.

    October 03, 2008
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