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Has anybody left a blank - momgedd

Posted: Mar 08, 2014

on a test and still got hired? Not sure if okay to leave a blank but have relistened so many times and can't make it out and don't want to guess.

Yes, I have done that - and was hired

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In fact, I left three blanks on a test. Later on, after working for the company for a couple of months, one of the QA people told me that none of them could figure out what was being said either. So, I think maybe companies do that on purpose sometimes to see if you will leave a blank or take an off-the-wall guess at it.

blanks - crystal ball

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Leaving blanks is often part of the test. They want to know that you will leave a blank at something you're not sure of and not just fill in what you think you hear but aren't sure.

I've left blanks and gotten hired, too.

BLANKS ARE FACT - me

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It has been my recent experience that it is okay to leave a blank, in fact, I think I left more than one--and thoroughly, pain-stakingly researched every other detail in those reports. I was hired within 3 days--which I think, of late, might be a record. Good company, prefer not to list at this point, you'll just have to trust it really is a decent one in the mix of things here on MTStars.

Blank - Debbie

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I have tested for several companies in recent weeks. Yes, it is fine to leave a blank if you cannot hear.

Blanks - momgedd

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Thanks for all the responses. I did leave two blanks and I got hired.

I have. I'd rather an "I don't know" than a wrong word. - LM

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Blank - MT

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I have left blanks on a test in the past when the dictator was ESL. The company did not expect me to understand everything he said. I was hired by this company.

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