What is an Error?
Grading Guidelines for the Georgia CCR Skills Tests
Automatic Fails:
• • • • Single-spaced transcripts Handwritten transcripts Use of all capital or all lowercase If your name appears on any papers that are handed in 7. Each misspelled word, including typographical errors or strikeovers. Dictated: hospital Transcribed: hotpital 1 Error Dictated: That doctor is not my doctor. Transcribed: That doctger is not my docter. 2 Errors NOTE: The same misspelled word is an error each time it occurs. 8. Each wrong name. Dictated: Mr. Smith followed me home. Transcribed: Mr. Jones followed me home. 1 Error
Allowable number of errors for exams:
Literary Jury Charge Q&A 32 36 40
Note: The following list of errors should be used as a guideline for correcting test papers. In all cases of dispute, the Chief Examiner, guided by all the principles set forth herein, will render the final decision, subject to appeal to the Board of Court Reporting.
What is an error?
1. Each wrong word. Dictated: I didn’t see the car until we hit. Transcribed: I didn’t notice any vehicle until we hit. 3 errors not 6 NOTE: Each wrong and/or substituted word counts as only 1 error, not 2. 2. Each plural read as singular and vice versa. Dictated: Let me check the dates. Transcribed: Let me check the date. 1 error
9. Each obvious question mark omitted from an interrogative sentence or added to a noninterrogative sentence. Dictated: Q What is your name? Transcribed: Q What is your name. 1 Error 10. Each contraction transcribed as two words and vice versa. Dictated: I don’t know. Transcribed: I do not know. 1 Error 11. Each omission of Q and A. Dictated: A Do you mean now? Q Yes. Transcribed: A Do you mean now? Yes. 1 Error NOTE: One error for the omitted Q. Do you mean now? Yes. That is right. Transcribed: Do you mean now? That is right. 3 Errors NOTE: One error for the omitted Q, one error for the omitted Yes, one error for the omitted A. 12. Each incorrect number or money figure represented by a word. Dictated: May one, nineteen fifty one. Transcribed: May 1, 1815. 3 Errors Transcribed: May 2, 1815 4 Errors Dictated: One hundred forty three dollars, sixty cents. Transcribed: 143.60 (omitted $ sign) 1 Error Transcribed: $142.40 2 Errors Transcribed: $143.06 1 Error Dictated: A Q A A
3. Each present-tense verb read as past tense and vice versa. Dictated: In other words, you acted as a clerk. Transcribed: In other words, you act as a clerk. 1 error Each omitted word. Dictated: I drove and he slept. Transcribed: I drove. He slept. 1 error NOTE: The essential error is the omission of the word “and.” No error for the period, no error for the capital H. 5. Each added word. Dictated: Yes. Transcribed: Yes, sir. 1 error 6. Then when he started When he then started 1 error Dictated: Before I went to Chicago, I went home. Transcribed: I went home before I went to Chicago. 3 errors NOTE: If ONE or more words are transposed from one part of the sentence to another, each transposed word is one error. Transposition. Dictated: Transcribed: 4.
13. Each omitted capital letter clearly needed. Transcribed: cleveland, Ohio 1 Error 14. Words used in place of an acronym and vice versa. Dictated: CIA Transcribed: Central Intelligence Agency 3 Errors Dictated: I have worked for the FBI for three years. Transcribed: I have worked for the CIA for three years. 3 Errors 15. Each compound word written as two words and vice versa. Dictated: The high school dropout rate has increased the last two years. Transcribed: The high school drop out rate has increased the last two years. 1 Error
These Will NOT Be Counted as Errors
Misplaced commas Optional capitalization of certain words (e.g., President, State) C. X-ing out of errors if done by typewriter or pen (no pencil) D. In dates, ordinal numbers for cardinal numbers and vice versa: either May 1 or May 1st, May 22 or May 22nd E. Spelling names that sound alike Dicated: Harley Schmidt Transcribed: Hardey Schmitt F. Punctuation which was part of a drop. G. Missing hyphens Dicated: brother-in-law Transcribed brother in law H. Dictated words or phrases not in the dictionary. I. OK: Five feet six inches or 5’6” OK: Four o’clock or 4:00 or 4 o’clock OK: Fourth Street or 4th Street A. B.
Grading example:
Dicated: The second common mistake is usually one of selection. One can see a harried clerical person rushing to send out two overnight parcels. The contents are well marked. Yet the parcels are somehow switched. Although the worker no doubt knew where each package was to go, a selection error transpired. Transcribed: 1 2 3 The next common mistake is usually one of select. Once can 4 5 6 be a harried clerical person running out to send two overnight 7 8 9 10 11 parcels. The parcels and the contents are well-marked, yet the 12 13 14 15 16 contents are well marked, yet the contents are somehow 17 18 19 20 switched. A selection error transpired, although the worker no 21 doubt knew where each pckage was to go. Description of Errors: 1. Incorrect word – 1 error 2. Incorrect word – 1 error 3. Typo – 1 error 4. Incorrect word – 1 error 5. Incorrect word – 1 error per word 6. Transposed word – 1 error 7-9. Added words – 1 error per word 10-15. Added words – 1 error per word 16. Wrong word – 1 error 17-20. Transposed words – 1 error per word 21. Typo – 1 error NOTE: When grading an actual test paper, errors are not to be numbered.