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Time to boycott MTTest.com - sm

Posted: Jan 11, 2012

Just took another test at that site and, as we all know, most of the time the tests are ridiculously easy and yet I keep failing...supposedly. Something fishy in Vancouver:)))

I know, right!!! I've felt the same; never a response on what the issue was.... - Mrs. Pass

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I know better...we all know better. :)

Creepy - Old MT

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That is so funny you mention that. I took one of those tests for a company that was so ridculously easy, and I flunked. I couldn't imagine how I could flunk something so easy. My current job with ALL acute care is at least 10 times harder, and I get 98-100% audit scores.

You are correct. something stinks with MTTest. - babs123

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MTTest - Puzzled

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Okay I have taken plenty of tests on MTTest and I have never failed one. The last time I took one was about 1-1/2 years ago. Perhaps this is something recent? Otherwise, I am just a bit puzzled why companies would go to the expense of paying MTTest to test applicants and then fail them. Am I missing something here? Flame me if you must but I feel like I am asking a legitimate question here.

What you are missing - mttt

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Is that there's NOTHING wrong with mttest, but the test-takers have to blame someone rather than take accountability. I've taken many tests through mttest and never failed one.

The issue isn't MTTEST. The issue is there are people who are MTs and because they've been one for 10, 15, 20+ years they think that automatically translates into skill. It doesn't.

MTTest - Puzzled

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I have certainly considered that as a possibility, having seen some really poor quality work being done, even by those who have been in the industry for a long time. That being said, I thought I should point out a major fallacy in the argument that it is because MTTest is designed to fail people. Some companies have harder tests and some have easier tests. Sometimes the downloading doesn't work well, there are technical difficulties, ESLs who you could hardly accuse of having any English ability at all, and tricky questions, but none of these problems are issues that any reasonably experienced MT shouldn't be able to successfully overcome. If an MT thinks the test was easy but still failed, maybe they should look a bit harder at their skill level and stop assuming that their many years of experience means that they aren't capable of making mistakes. In fact, it is that sort of hubris that is the problem, IMO.

MTTest - Puzzled

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The silence here is deafening. No one? No one going to defend how "crooked" MTTest is? Alrighty then.

MT Test - Employed but looking

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I wouldn't say it's "crooked" but I think there are problems with it. I don't think the transcription test is graded by humans and I think that's an issue. I've passed the testing for some companies but not others. I just took one for a well known company that I didn't pass and I am questioning that because I do think there were technical issues. Most of the time I have not been able to accept the offer of employment because the benefit packages, especially health insurance, have not been suitable for me. One thing I'd like to change would be to receive my test results or at least know how I scored.

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