The Keyboarding Test

So, yesterday in keyboarding I asked the instructer what the test was like. I was honestly just looking to make conversation since she was nice enough to let me borrow her book this week so I don't have to open my so that I can return it when I pass the bypass exam.

Anyway, turns out there's more to this test than just keyboarding and typing speed. Here's what will be tested:

* Type a simple table
* Type a block-style letter
* Type a 2-page academic report with proofreader's marks
* Type a block-style memo
* Perform a 5-minute timing with 35+ wpm and 5 errors or less.
* Perform numeric 10-key with at least 150 dpm and 3 errors or less

EEK!

I thought this test would be a piece of cake. Now, I'm not so sure.

I don't know how to type a simple table, a block-style letter or memo (what is block-style anyway??), I'm not sure if I remember all the proofreader's marks I learned in high school (and if I did, could they have changed??) and I'm not too confidant on my 10-key.

When I signed up for the keyboarding bypass exam I thought it would be just that: keyboarding. When I signed up for it they didn't give me a "study guide" or any information about it...and I didn't think to ask.

So, let's say I don't (god forbid) pass the keyboarding exam, then this will be what I'm left to deal with:

* Every day Monday thru Thursday I have a 2 hour class which is my last peirod of the day. This means, if I do pass out of the class I'll get to go home 2 hours earlier!!
* We have to do each leasson-set twice. At the end of each leasson-set is a mini-test which must be completed twice. That means I must complete, and complete well (meaning 35+ wpm with 1 or fewer errors) 4 times.
* Each mini-test is grouped in twos, meaning at the end of each lesson-set you must take the mini-test twice but they are connected. If I "pass" the first of the 2 mini-tests from the first attempt of the lesson, but don't "pass" the second mini-test from that attempt at the lesson then I have to re-take both attempts of the mini-test. Does that make sense?
* I have an entire week to complete the lessons. This week's lessons are 1 and 2. Lesson 1 being the "home row" and lesson 2 being keys "r," "e," "o," and "i" I think. Yesterday I completed all of lesson 1 (incuding all four mini-tests) and all of lesson 2 minus the four mini-tests. I would have finished the four mini-tests for lesson 2 it weren't for the fact that we had to go over as a class how to use the program, oh and how to use email.
* If I finnish the lessons assigned for that week that doesn't mean I get to go home. And it doesn't mean I can "jump ahead." What it means is that I get to work on 10 key for the rest of the week.
* I have to email the professor every Monday to let her know how I'm doing. As in "I'm having a good week," or "I'm having a bad week."

So incunclusion I'd really like to test out of this class...but I'm not sure I'll be able to. I might as well go ahead and take the test since I (read: my parents) paied the $40.00 for the test. But if I could get a refund I might actually do that too since I don't really have the time today or tomorrow to study for my bypass.

GAH!