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What is the secret to passing the mttest? Way too many years of experience and its not going well on that test site. Are they reviewed by a computer program or real people? Any advice?
As you can see, this was posted nearly a year ago and it was quite an eye opener for many....didn't save all the responses, but there were many that didn't know once you had hit the button that says "Save report and go to next report" the report was permanently saved and any changes you made after that would not apply.
Here are the original posts, I hope it helps those who did not see it the first time:
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 - 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
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.