Specifics

As a beginner, you really want solid, easy answers to the problems you encounter in grappling. The problem is that there aren’t a lot of easy answers. If grappling were a testing format, it would be an essay, not a true/false scantron.
There are some certainties. One of the simple but very useful points that Coach Bill mentioned today in class was if you want to armbar your partner, move the thumb toward the pinky. This seems easier to me than having to figure out which direction the elbow pit is facing and then pressing the arm in the opposite direction.
There were some other great nuggets in class today but returning to the essay versus true/false test, most of them were dynamic truths rather than simple ones. While that may be frustrating as a beginner, to not have simple definite answers, I think over the long haul it points to a much broader strategy that will serve students both on and off the floor – adapting to the situation at hand.