NCAA TEST STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS /LATEST
2024 2025
1. National Collegiate Athletic Association: The collegiate model of athletics in which
students participate as an avocation, balancing their academic, social, and athletics
experiences
- Highest levels of integrity and sportsmanship
- Excellence in both academics and athletics
- Administers 23 sports and championships for those sports
Provides vehicle to enforce: player eligibility, recruiting, financial aid/scholarships,
playing/practice schedules, championship events
2. Eligibility: 3 requirements:
- Graduated high school
- Qualifying GPA (2.3) and ACT/SAT score (sliding scale, more strict for lower GPAs and less
strict for higher GPAs)
- Must be completing min number of required courses
Four years excluding redshirts
3. Academic redshirt: Year used to get in compliance with standards at the college level
4. Medical redshirts: Hardship waivers; granted in special circumstances to in- jured/ill
athletes who appear in fewer than 30% of team competitions (none beyond midpoint )
5. Recruiting: Any solicitation of prospective student-athletes or their parents by an
institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution's athletics interests for
the purpose of securing a prospective student-athlete's enrollment and ultimate
participation in the institution's intercollegiate athletics program
6. Contact period: A period where coach may have face-to-face, written and ver- bal
contact with college-bound student-athletes and their parents, visit their high schools, and
watch them compete
7. Evaluation period: No face-to-face contact in off-campus settings, but they can attend
and watch high school games
8. Contact: Occurs anytime a coach says more than "hello" during face-to-face
interactions with an incoming student-athlete or his or her parents in an off-campus setting
9. Quiet period: Allows for on-campus, face-to-face contact; letters and phone calls are
allowed, but coaches cannot visit high schools or attend games in person
10. Dead period: No face-to-face contact is permitted in any form or setting; phone calls
and letters are still allowed
, 11. Official visit: Any visit to a college campus by a college-bound student athlete and his
or her parents in which the college pays for transportation to and from the campus, lodging,
three meals per day, and reasonable entertainment expenses (i.e., three tickets to a home
sporting event); only five official visits and one to each school can be taken by prospective
student-athletes.
12. Unofficial visit: Visit that only includes reasonable entertainment expenses
13. National Letter of Intent: Signed by a college-bound student-athlete when the
student-athlete agrees to attend a Division I or II college or university for
one academic year. Participating institutions agree to provide financial aid for one
academic year to the student-athlete as long as the student-athlete is admitted to the
school and is eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules.
- Ends the recruiting process
14. Athletic Scholarships: Awards of financial aid given to a
student-athlete to attend a
college or university based
predominately on his or her
ability to play a specific sport.
15. Division 1: Highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the NCAA; typically
these schools have larger budgets, more elaborate facilities, and more athletic
scholarships than other divisions
Must have at least 7 men's and 7 women's or 6 men's and 8 women's; avg enrollment 12,900;
nearly 60% of NCAA revenues given to these programs
16. Football Bowl Subdivision: FBS; allows maximum of 85 scholarships per year;
championed determined by College Football Playoff
No fewer than 90% of FBS scholarships can be awarded; full scholarships
17. Football Championship Subdivision: FCS; limited to 63 scholarships per year; can offer
partial scholarships by dividing 63 scholarships; no fewer than 76.5 players must receive
some form of support
18. Division 3: The largest of the NCAA divisions (by number of schools) and con- sists of
those colleges and universities that choose NOT to offer athletic scholarships to their student-
athletes
Aid must proportionally mirror amount given to rest of the school's general student body
Avg enrollment 2,717; 81% are private; may NOT use endowments; only 3% of NCAA's total
revenues are given to these programs
2024 2025
1. National Collegiate Athletic Association: The collegiate model of athletics in which
students participate as an avocation, balancing their academic, social, and athletics
experiences
- Highest levels of integrity and sportsmanship
- Excellence in both academics and athletics
- Administers 23 sports and championships for those sports
Provides vehicle to enforce: player eligibility, recruiting, financial aid/scholarships,
playing/practice schedules, championship events
2. Eligibility: 3 requirements:
- Graduated high school
- Qualifying GPA (2.3) and ACT/SAT score (sliding scale, more strict for lower GPAs and less
strict for higher GPAs)
- Must be completing min number of required courses
Four years excluding redshirts
3. Academic redshirt: Year used to get in compliance with standards at the college level
4. Medical redshirts: Hardship waivers; granted in special circumstances to in- jured/ill
athletes who appear in fewer than 30% of team competitions (none beyond midpoint )
5. Recruiting: Any solicitation of prospective student-athletes or their parents by an
institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution's athletics interests for
the purpose of securing a prospective student-athlete's enrollment and ultimate
participation in the institution's intercollegiate athletics program
6. Contact period: A period where coach may have face-to-face, written and ver- bal
contact with college-bound student-athletes and their parents, visit their high schools, and
watch them compete
7. Evaluation period: No face-to-face contact in off-campus settings, but they can attend
and watch high school games
8. Contact: Occurs anytime a coach says more than "hello" during face-to-face
interactions with an incoming student-athlete or his or her parents in an off-campus setting
9. Quiet period: Allows for on-campus, face-to-face contact; letters and phone calls are
allowed, but coaches cannot visit high schools or attend games in person
10. Dead period: No face-to-face contact is permitted in any form or setting; phone calls
and letters are still allowed
, 11. Official visit: Any visit to a college campus by a college-bound student athlete and his
or her parents in which the college pays for transportation to and from the campus, lodging,
three meals per day, and reasonable entertainment expenses (i.e., three tickets to a home
sporting event); only five official visits and one to each school can be taken by prospective
student-athletes.
12. Unofficial visit: Visit that only includes reasonable entertainment expenses
13. National Letter of Intent: Signed by a college-bound student-athlete when the
student-athlete agrees to attend a Division I or II college or university for
one academic year. Participating institutions agree to provide financial aid for one
academic year to the student-athlete as long as the student-athlete is admitted to the
school and is eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules.
- Ends the recruiting process
14. Athletic Scholarships: Awards of financial aid given to a
student-athlete to attend a
college or university based
predominately on his or her
ability to play a specific sport.
15. Division 1: Highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the NCAA; typically
these schools have larger budgets, more elaborate facilities, and more athletic
scholarships than other divisions
Must have at least 7 men's and 7 women's or 6 men's and 8 women's; avg enrollment 12,900;
nearly 60% of NCAA revenues given to these programs
16. Football Bowl Subdivision: FBS; allows maximum of 85 scholarships per year;
championed determined by College Football Playoff
No fewer than 90% of FBS scholarships can be awarded; full scholarships
17. Football Championship Subdivision: FCS; limited to 63 scholarships per year; can offer
partial scholarships by dividing 63 scholarships; no fewer than 76.5 players must receive
some form of support
18. Division 3: The largest of the NCAA divisions (by number of schools) and con- sists of
those colleges and universities that choose NOT to offer athletic scholarships to their student-
athletes
Aid must proportionally mirror amount given to rest of the school's general student body
Avg enrollment 2,717; 81% are private; may NOT use endowments; only 3% of NCAA's total
revenues are given to these programs
