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testing and foot pedals...is it just me or - crazy2mt


Posted: Jan 06, 2010

does most testing not work with your foot pedal?  I have only taken 2 tests in the last 2 months that my foot pedal worked.  All the rest, I had to struggle with F1 and such.  It really slowed me down and I am sure affected my testing.  Any help or advice out there?  I did download the pedable program and checked to make sure my pedal was in working order.

Puzzled....

testing/foot pedals - tired MT

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Ah yes! I have the same problem - then when you have five or six "notes" by the last one (which is usually the worse) you are so aggravated you want to SCREAM. I've been doing this forever and my testing is usually greatly damaged by this problem too. Then if you say anything - they act like "oh well, so sad, too bad". Good Luck - but it is definitely not just you!

I certainly agree - especially when you will never use this method again once you are employed. - IAMT

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Seems like they all use it for testing though.

I do have a microcasette transcriber and a handheld cheap dictaphone and have played the report into that tape and then typed it from my tape in the transcriber into Word and cut and pasted to their document file. That worked pretty well. Lot to go through just to test though but worked the best.

Testing and foot pedals - Are you referring to

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the mttest.com site? If so, I always save the audio file to my desk top and click and drag it into express scribe so that I can use my foot pedal. I have only had one company test site that I couldn't use it on, and it was a HUGE pain in the a**!


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