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Instructions to Candidates
The procedure will be as follows :—
1. A short practice passage will be read. This must not be transcribed.
The shorthand notes must be handed in at the end of the examination.
2. Tests will be read in ascending order from the lowest to the highest s])(
speed required. jq
3. An interval of two minutes will be allowed between the reading of the
passages. Tt
4. The shorthand notes may be taken with either pen or pencil, but
transcripts must be written in ink.
5. You may take down the passages dictated at more than one speed, but
you may submit a transcription of only one passage.
6. On no account may alterations be made to the original shorthand notes.
Any alterations which you wish to make should be indicated by a circle round
the wrong outline or phrase and the correct one written above.
7. Candidates on the higher grade must not take down passages read at
speeds lower than eighty words per minute.
8. You may not ask for the repetition of any word or phrase.
9. All writing during subsequent readings, as well as in the intervals
between readings, is strictly forbidden.
10. You will be told by the invigilator when transcription may be
commenced.
11. The shorthand notes of the passage transcribed should be attached to
the transcript and should be handed to the invigilator, together with all other
shorthand notes made by you.