BJJ Referee Quiz: Authority and Organization of Refereeing

The referee is the match’s supreme authority, but that power follows precise rules. This twelve-question BJJ referee quiz tests your command of chapter 1 of the IBJJF rulebook: authority, corner referees, ties and mat exits.

What this quiz tests

This BJJ referee quiz covers the first chapter of the official IBJJF rulebook: the referee’s authority and its limits (article 1.1), the three-referee system and the tie procedure (1.2), duties before and during the match (1.3) and the management of the match area, from mat exits to the specific protections for under-12 athletes.

Twelve questions calibrated for competitors, coaches and referees in training: every correction cites the exact case from the rulebook, as detailed in our article on referee gestures and verbal commands.

To review the referee’s language in full, read our article on referee gestures and verbal commands. And to keep playing, all our quizzes are on the BJJ-Rules quiz page.