v1 · built from the 26-27 national guides

Fall Line

A study game for PSIA-AASI ski and snowboard certification. Every question comes from the 26-27 assessment guides, activity lists and PSIA-RM curriculum guides, with the page it came from.

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On screen

What's in the bank

About 300 questions and flashcards, written from the eight PDFs on the PSIA-RM education pages. Every item carries a word-for-word quote from the page it cites, and a script checked each quote against the source text. Flag anything that reads wrong and I'll fix it.

How the exam is built

From the 26-27 national assessment guides, every level has the same three modules. Level 1 is one all-or-nothing event; you can't bank modules. Levels 2 and 3 are modular, so you can take modules one at a time, in any order, across seasons.

ModuleOn the mountainStudy it here
Movement Analysis & Technical UnderstandingSelf-assessment and peer MA, up to 8 minutes eachMA Chutes, Fundamentals, MA Lab
Skiing / Riding PerformanceActivities from the National Activity List, called down one at a timeActivity Bowl, plus activity flashcards in the Lift Line
Teaching & People SkillsA teaching segment with your peers as students (up to 20 minutes at L1)Teach Traverse, Focus Areas

PSIA-RM's own pathway pages also list an online Professional Knowledge Exam before the Level 2 and 3 on-snow assessments, and prerequisite clinics. The Pathway run covers those.

How scoring works

MechanicWhat it does
Vertical feetXP. 100 vft per correct answer, times your carving multiplier (up to ×3).
WipeoutsThree per run. Lose them all and ski patrol ends the run.
Review boxesEach question and card sits in a box from Today to 2 weeks. Get it right and it moves out a box; miss it and it comes back today.
Run conditionsGroomed at 80% mastery. Icy when 3 or more items are due for review. Closed if the guides have nothing for your level.
Exam Day25 questions from every run, no wipeouts, with a per-run breakdown. The 80% target is Fall Line's, not an official pass mark.

Things in the guides that look off

While writing questions, the source text disagreed with itself in a few places. No question depends on these points. Ask your trainer or examiner about them.

  • Snowboard Activities List: Level 1 Switch Turns has an Open shape on page 9 but Closed on the MA quick reference (page 76). Level 1 Off Piste / Bumps terrain is Blue on page 8 but Green on page 76.
  • Snowboard Activities List: Heel to Heel (in-air) on page 63 says "landing on the toe/switch heel edge", which looks like a typo. "Separation" is used as an alignment value but never defined.
  • Alpine Assessment Guide: the professionalism outcome is "Instructor Decisions & Behavior" in the L2/L3 MA and Skiing modules but "Professionalism and Self-Management" in the L2/L3 Teaching module. The L3 Skiing Performance wording appears copied from L2.
  • Alpine Curriculum Guide vs. Activities List: the RM Level 3 camp page (p. 64) lists four Integrated Activities (Wedge, Wedge Christie, Basic Parallel, Dynamic Parallel). The national list has three per level: Wedge, Wedge Christie and Basic Parallel at L2; Wedge Christie, Basic Parallel and Dynamic Parallel at L3. Fall Line follows the national list.
  • Alpine Activities List: Falling Leaf with edge change (page 56) repeats the ski-performance text as body performance. The Level 2 Funnel (page 39) is on groomed blue but its description says variable snow.

Build phases

Phase 0
  • Plan and clickable mockup
Phase 1
You are here
  • Bank from the national guides, with page cites
  • Lessons to read before each run
  • Map, Quick Run, Lift Line, Exam Day
  • Progress saved in this browser
Phase 2
  • Technical and teaching manuals, e-learning notes
  • Real MA scenarios with video, and Lesson Builder
  • Progress synced across phone and laptop
Phase 3
  • Spoken or typed MA answers graded by Claude
  • Exam countdown and study plan

Still missing

  1. The national technical and teaching manuals. The guides point to them for the full Technical Fundamentals, and most of the "why" lives there.
  2. Your e-learning course notes and the Professional Knowledge Exam topics, if you have them.
  3. Your discipline, level and exam date, so the game starts in the right place.