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Testing for jobs - MTer

Posted: Oct 16, 2010

I am in a quandry. I have tested for multiple companies now and pass with flying colors on the terminology and fill-ins, but am losing out in the transcription testing portion. I never went to formal MT school, but have been working for over 3 years for a small MTSO and have transcribed for oncologists, gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, family practice physicians and have never had an issue with the quality of my work. I also purchased the AHDI Book of Style and have been following the sample reports when I test. I really don't know what I am doing wrong! I have a spell checker too. Just can't figure out what I am doing wrong! Can anyone shed some light? The last company I tested with was kind enough to tell me I scored an 82. Unfortunately they don't tell you what you got wrong. I'm really feeling defeated at this point as I've always had a knack for spelling and grammar, find medical terminology pretty interesting, and I care about the work I do. Any pointers other than the obvious taking a medical transcription course? Right now I don't really have the $$$ or the time for that.

transcription test - truffle

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I would listen through the dictation again (following along with what you have transcribed) a couple of times after you are finished. Maybe you are leaving out small words or something like that.

Do you have QA at your MTSO that reviews your work periodically?

transcription test - anon

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I would suggest that you not try to finish the whole test in one sitting. I have found that doing half one day and then finishing early the next morning works better for me because I am much fresher (especially try this when you relisten to the dictations). Don't dwell too long on words you can't get, leave blank and come back. Also, try not to get discouraged. I trained for 2 years at a community college and have 5 years of transcribing experience and still fail a lot of these transx tests. I think it is because many people have different styles and perceptions of what is right and wrong grammatically, formatting etc. Many of these companies choose the worst tranx they can find such as ESLs, mumblers and fast talkers, not to mention the testing platforms being difficult to use. Hope this helps a bit.

Are you testing at the MTTest website? (sm) - Yochana

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I saved this thread for future reference and will post it here. But, apparently HOW you save the transcription part matters when testing on MTTest.

Sure. - (sm)
Posted: May 13th, 2010 - 1:38 am In Reply to: Would you mind clarifying #3 under - transcription? SM

On the mttest.com site, once you get to the transcription portion, you will probably have more than 1 report to transcribe. Usually they have 4 reports.

You can "save" any report at any given time and take a break (log out and come back another time to finish). This simply saves the information you have transcribed. You can go back to the site and pick up where you left off. You can also use this feature to do a "draft" on all reports and just simply "save" so you can go back and re-read or re-listen before submitting.

You also have the option to "save this report and go to the next report". This will permanently save the one you just finished and mark it with a green checkmark and move you to the next report. You cannot go back to the previous report once you choose that option.

My advice is to simply save each report so you can go back and work/proof/re-listen, etc., until you are ready to submit that report. Then choose the "save this report and move to the next one" option. Review that report and repeat until all 4 have a green checkmark next to them.

Then you click the button that submits the whole transcription portion. You cannot go back once you click that button.

I have a question about this - #3
Posted: May 13th, 2010 - 9:51 am In Reply to: Sure. - (sm)

If you mark the report save and go to next report it will let you go back in to edit it, but does it not save the changes you make? I think that is what I have been doing wrong. I got feedback from a company saying that I had 11 errors in 4 reports and I knew there was no way that was possible. I had listened to those sound files 3 times each and made corrections. But, I had marked them complete and went to the next and then went back to proof and correct them. So, did it not save the corrections I made when I went back and listened again?

Once the green check mark is in place there are - no changes made to the transcription tests
Posted: May 13th, 2010 - 1:14 pm In Reply to: I have a question about this - #3

So if you went back and listened once you had already hit the box that said save this and go to the next file, no, none of your changes were made.
OMG.....that is what I have been doing wrong - No wonder
Posted: May 14th, 2010 - 11:34 am In Reply to: Once the green check mark is in place there are - no changes made to the transcription tests

I feel like an idiot. No wonder I wasn't passing these test. I thought that was the only way to move on to the next test was by marking it save and go to next test....jeesh. I actually had a company nice enough to tell me what my errors were in the report and while she was telling me, I was wondering does she have the correct test, because I know I didn't leave those mistakes in there. Well now maybe I can find a decent job since I know this.

Sure hope this helps you. :-)

Testing - MTer

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Yes, I have been working in the MTTest site mainly. And I have been just saving without the green check mark and going back in to listen again. Maybe I am rushing through too quickly because I want to get another job. I was taking numerous tests the one week because I sent out so many applications. It was like I was working full-time just to do testing. I'm really thinking I might want to try something else since I am getting so discouraged in reading about how many companies hire and then have no work. I've been wracking my brain to come up with other work I can do from home. I enjoy doing creative things like painting furniture and crafty type things, but not sure I could count on making any money with those either. Why didn't I become a speech therapist like my Mom wanted me to be? Much better job forcast for that profession! Now I'm too broke and lacking the drive to go back to school.

Testing something that I do - nn

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Another thing that I do, is type the dictation portion of the test files in Word, run my spell check and the cut and paste into the "test document" after relistening to the report. I then "Save report as" and complete the report and go to the next one. HTH

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