8 MARCH 1975 Issue I Revises, Combines & Cancels BTB 21 Jan 72RA, Cramming Series 2RA, BTB 10 June 73RA, Cramming Series 19RA, BTB 10 June 73, Issue III, Reissued 19 July 74, Cramming Series 20. | 8 MARCH 1975 Issue V Revises, Combines & Cancels BTB 12 Dec 71R, Issue XII, Cramming Series 6R, BTB 12 Dec 71R, Issue XIII, Cramming Series 7R, BTB 2 Sept 72R, Issue III, Cramming Series 10, BTB 21 Jan 73RA, Cramming Series 14RA. |
Cramming Actions | CRAMMING EXPERTISE |
The particular areas of expertise a Cramming Officer has to have, in addition to being a proven Auditor and Supervisor to the level of the Org are: | All Cramming Officers are to put up a large well lettered, permanent sign in the Cramming area: |
1. TRs 0-9 & Rapid TR 2 | |
2. Metering | |
3. Axioms & Codes | A Cramming Officer must be an experienced Auditor up to the highest Class of auditing he/she is Supervising. A failed Auditor on post will only result in failed correction cycles. Another Cramming Officer is appointed to handle students and admin cramming cycles. This has been proven a successful action. |
4. Coaching | The Cramming Officer keeps a log book of all Cramming actions done and weekly reviews the types of Cramming actions going on with the different Auditors. He could find at this point that a certain Auditor has been crammed on three slightly different but related areas. He can, at this point, call the Auditor in and handle the more basic outness isolated. |
5. Mechanics of the Mind | Packs of materials to do with a subject or action should be compiled for Cramming – e.g. Rudiments, Listing and Nulling, TRs, etc. If an Auditor goofs on Rudiments, he reviews the little pack, word clears it, drills the actions, etc. |
6. Problems of Work | Word Clearing is used very heavily in Cramming. Auditors are not “sent to Word Clearing” when it is required. They are just twinned up and word clear the materials ordered in Cramming. If a student is consistently goofing on data contained in a particular level or course, he can be ordered to word clear the entire materials on that checksheet in Cramming. |
7. Word Clearing – M2, 3, 4, 6, 7 & 9 | When certain materials have already been word cleared and the student is still goofing on the procedure, it must be considered that he has a confusion re the sequences of actions and the student must be very heavily drilled on that action. |
8. The Tech Materials to the level of the Org | The Cramming Officer has the whole resources of the Org Library to call upon. Many books contain key data applicable to every level and these should be used liberally in Cramming. |
9. 10 points of Keeping Scientology Working. | If an Auditor is showing ignorance of a datum or rule, it is quite possible that he never read it. |
THE CRAMMING OFFICER’S PROCEDURE | The three main areas investigated in Cramming are: |
The general procedure in use in handling Auditors sent to Cramming is as follows: | 1. The student or Auditor never read it. |
A. Interview the Auditor with the folder and Cramming Order. | The exact data may not have been on an earlier checksheet done on a subject. So one always ensures that all the data is to hand and reviewed. |
B. Go over the folder locating all errors in sequence, earliest to latest. | 2. The student or Auditor has misunderstoods in the material. |
C. Find the Why for the goof on a meter. | Handled fully with Word Clearing, always on the whole text of the materials goofed. |
D. Ensure the Cramming Order handles the Why, is short and written in sequence of gradient handling, including basics. | 3. The student or Interne has confusions on the sequences of actions. |
E. See that the misunderstoods are cleaned up back to the Basics (e.g. errors handling out Ruds traced back through Basic Auditing Series to the Auditor’s Code). Always use WC 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9 in addition to starrates and clay. | Handled by drilling. Can also be handled by HC lists. |
F. Have the Auditor drill the procedure flubbed until flawless. | One point that the Cramming Officer must watch out for is overlong Cramming Orders. An overlong Cramming Order would be one that contained more than four or five issues. Such a Cramming Order is actually a training cycle and should be done in staff training. Overlong Cramming cycles tend to bring about a backlog because they cannot be handled quickly and completed. Qual is a corrective Division and should not get into routine training actions. Routine training belongs in the Tech Division. The Cramming Officer does not accept overlong Cramming Orders. |
G. Have the Auditor do TRs 0-4 (6-9 if necessary), debugging individual TRs on a gradient of perfection. | NO F/N AT EXAMS |
H. If a chronic error, metering error or low hours, check over his meter position, eyes and his handling of the meter, and OT TR 0 and TR 0 particularly. | Per C/S Series 86RB, BTB 20 Jan 73RB, “The Red Tag Line”, the Examiner sends a copy of the list of the day’s Red Tags to the Cramming Officer. |
I. Now, with the error corrected and basics in, interview the Auditor and verify that the Why is handled and send to the Pc Examiner as a VGIs F/Ning student. | A Red Tag Pc report must lead at once to Cramming of the Auditor, the D of P, the C/S and the Tech Sec. They are immediately crammed on the appropriate materials with all Mis-U words cleared up and any Why found on the meter as needful. |
J. If no F/N, check him over on the meter for by-passed why or misunderstoods, isolate the area and get it corrected and Word Cleared M2 & 9 and starrated and drilled. | Any discovered instance of a non-F/N VGIs folder not being relayed to the C/S, and thus discovered by the Cramming Officer, must result in an immediate Ethics Hearing for No Report. |
K. Write up the “Why” and key actions of the handling for the C/S, attach the F/N Exam form and route to the C/S logged as complete. | Msm John Eastment; A/CS-5 Approved by Guardian WW FB Ad Council FB Exec Council LRH Comm FB Commodore’s Staff Aides Approved by the Board of Issues for the BOARDS OF DIRECTORS of the CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY |
Steps A & B have several parts: | |
a. Show me. | |
b. Tell me. | |
c. Obnosis. | |
d. What happened just before that? | |
SHOW ME | |
In many instances, if a person is asked what was done, he will not report exactly what was done, so a Cramming Off should get a person to show him what he did. | |
A Cramming Off has to hand a Cramming Order. His first action is to get the person to demonstrate by going through the motions. In many cases, he won’t have to go any further because the demonstration will immediately show what was wrong and requiring correction. | |
For example, an Interne is having trouble with assessment, but a simple demonstration shows that he does not know how to set up for a session. He has his Meter way over to the left, the worksheets in the center and the assessment sheet way over to his right, and thus cannot see the list, the Meter and the Pc all in one field of vision. Such a demo can take one minute and save a Cramming Off 20 minutes of digging. | |
In Admin Cramming, Show Me can take the Cramming Off into the Staff Member’s area. | |
TELL ME | |
When Show Me is not possible, have the person tell what happened. “Exactly what did you do?” is a stable datum. Get the exact sequence of events not a lot of ramble. If very confused have the person use a Demo Kit. Don’t get caught up in reasons or explanations. | |
OBNOSIS | |
The Cramming Officer must be able to pick out the outnesses in what is being said or shown. One doesn’t have to be an expert to recognize and follow down something that doesn’t make sense. | |
WHAT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE THAT? | |
In some cases, particularly in the Tech Cramming area, the Cramming Off will have to find out what happened just before the goof. | |
When checking for what happened just before a goof, the Cramming Off will find A. something he didn’t understand, and/or B. something he couldn’t control. | |
A new Interne flubs the commands of R3R. Now, if the Cramming Off doesn’t ask what happened just before that, he may miss out on his Why. He will probably find out that the Interne realized he was running out of paper, or some such common incidence, which caused him to become flustered, TRs to go out, and he flubbed the commands. In this case, through his own lack of planning and set-up actions, the Interne lost control of the session. So the Cramming Off will cram the Interne on session set-up actions and strengthen his TR 0 through the use of TRs booklets and tapes and see that he continues daily TRs Training on the Interneship. | |
When a look into a situation does not readily show up a Why, go earlier and find out what happened. | |
ETHICS | |
The only hidden barrier to real success in Cramming is non-participation, the indicator of Out Ethics. A Cramming Off must recognize Out Ethics and get it handled. He may be able to get the Staff Member to handle it on the spot, or he may have to send the person to Ethics or even to Integrity Processing. The point is to recognize the barrier to progress and get it removed. | |
SUPERVISOR CRAMMING | |
Unless Qual is also correcting Training where needful, Cramming will be overloaded with flubbed products who didn’t get the data in the first place and are now goofing on their Tech or Admin post. | |
The Qual Sec should inspect Course rooms daily. Does the Super have his E-Meter set up on his desk ready for an M2 or M4? Is the Super moving around the class constantly, handling students, keeping them moving and F/Ning? Actual Super two way comm with students should be listened to and TRs and Supervisor or study tech correction written up. | |
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Any Supervisor with down stats, drop-outs, blows or slow students must become bait for a continuing correction program until the standard is way up and into an acceptable level. | |
The value of a good Academy or HSDC Supervisor, who runs snap and pop courses, gets his students through rapidly and thoroughly is extremely high. In this case, he is personally worth about two times that of a top HGC Auditor in terms of beans into the Org. HAS and HQS Course Supers prove their worth in future beans and re-sign-ups in the Org. They help to create future business in the Academy and the HGC. Therefore, proven top Supervisors should not be ignored as areas of facility differential. | |
A Supervisor is handled in Cramming like any other person in for correction. The Situation is located, the Why found and the handling for that Why executed. There are many such Situations and Whys to be found on most to get them to a point of being flubless Supervisors. It is a no more lengthy cycle than getting an Interne through his Interneship. | |
A good Supervisor produces the Org’s future Auditors. | |
Msm John Eastment A/CS-5 Approved by Guardian WW FB Ad Council FB Exec Council LRH Comm FB Commodore’s Staff Aides Approved by the Board of Issues for the BOARDS OF DIRECTORS of the CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY | |