The location of service facsimiles requires a proper listing question, the absence of which can lead to missing the actual service fac or overrunning a lower release grade.

Of the assessment methods, the following should probably be ruled out as an overrun of earlier grades or on the basis of getting a free needle on a previous grade:

1. Slow assessment with ITSA (overrun Grade 0)

2. Assessment by problems (overrun Grade 1)

3. Assessment by parts of existence (overrun Grade 0)

This leaves as acceptable methods:

1. “In this lifetime, what do you use to make others wrong?”

2. “In this lifetime, what do you think your service facsimile is?” (for a Scientologist trained to Level IV)

3. “In this lifetime, what would be a safe solution to….?” (the blank having been obtained by questions given on the tapes to find either a hidden standard or hidden problem).

4. Assessment of a prepared list, using level found, in “In this lifetime, what have you…… (prehav level)?”

The point being not to start out at the beginning by listing a question which OBVIOUSLY WILL NOT RESULT IN FINDING A SERVICE FAC, in which instance the rule of declaring the grade on a floating needle obtained on the list could not possibly apply.