hope this is the right place for this
when I went to the scoutmaster basic training course it was explained to me that we were to follow the requirements exactly - not to add to them nor to leave things out.
It seems to me my troop over the years has added quite a lot of 'paperwork' to the requirements. An example
Second Class
#5 Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
My troop requires the boys to fill out a form provided by the troop the form may or may not require a leader