Report: pre-interview English test
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eveglassToday I had a two-hour test at Softitler, a subtitling and closed-captioning company where I've applied to be an English editor. The test consisted of three parts:
1. A pen-and-paper grammar test, which also included some general knowledge questions and (for some reason) a logic problem. I think I did pretty well here.
2. A transcription test: they gave you an audio file, and you needed to transcribe as much as you could. I think I did pretty poorly here, because I only realized about a minute into the recording that I could pause it. So my first minute is full of partial, poorly-transcribed sentences as I tried to keep up with talk-show interview speech. By the time I realized I could pause the file, I also realized I couldn't rewind it, so I'm not particularly happy with the end result on that one.
3. A subtitle-editing test: we were given the beginning of an episode of Gilmore Girls, with subtitles already included, but with many errors. Our job was to fix all the mistakes. I think I did pretty well here also, though there may be a few small errors in punctuation due to some questions I had about their style guide.
In the end, i find out in about two weeks how I did. I refuse to think about it anymore right now.
1. A pen-and-paper grammar test, which also included some general knowledge questions and (for some reason) a logic problem. I think I did pretty well here.
2. A transcription test: they gave you an audio file, and you needed to transcribe as much as you could. I think I did pretty poorly here, because I only realized about a minute into the recording that I could pause it. So my first minute is full of partial, poorly-transcribed sentences as I tried to keep up with talk-show interview speech. By the time I realized I could pause the file, I also realized I couldn't rewind it, so I'm not particularly happy with the end result on that one.
3. A subtitle-editing test: we were given the beginning of an episode of Gilmore Girls, with subtitles already included, but with many errors. Our job was to fix all the mistakes. I think I did pretty well here also, though there may be a few small errors in punctuation due to some questions I had about their style guide.
In the end, i find out in about two weeks how I did. I refuse to think about it anymore right now.
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