The routine questions of the Expanded Grade processes are not checked for read before running them. The exceptions are only as expressly designated where it is a part of that individual technique, or on listing questions such as the main Grade IV process.

Generally:

1. When you're picking something to run on an individual that is handling his individual manifestations it must read well before you run it. Not all pcs have "a sharp pain in the left elbow" or are upset by false teeth or have a prepcheckable item called "reviews" or have an item for "Who or what has suppressed you?"

2. When you're running something that is common to all thetans — i.e. that all thetans have — then the charge is there, though it could take a little while to run the meter action into the process. Probably with Ruds well in most of the standard processes would read anyhow, if you happened to be looking at the meter; thus later you can check a previously run Grade process for read as an indication of whether or not it's flat.

To run 0-B you'd check the item for read before using it in the blank in the command … but you wouldn't check "communication", find no read, and then skip Grade Zero on the pc. All the processes of the level are run on each pc.