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In the year, “1500 AD,” (Stephen Root, Office Space) 1500 people got the plague, but another 1500 made 1500 bucks selling their services to the palace. Even though the vessel with the pestle was the brew that was true. A lot of them had six degrees of separation and seven pounds of perspiration. But unfortunately, the vast majority of them, though educated enough to try failed to look up all those numbers in the GoTranscript guidelines and failed the test.
The above was obviously an apocryphal story, although not part of the actual Apocrypha, aka the Book of Revelations found in the New Testament. However, even though revelations chapter one verse 12, references seven golden lampstands if I then turn around and say that there were actually 12 lampstands in my unauthorized version, you will be judged on how you formatted both the numbers in this long sentence.
Those gold lampstands would be worth a pretty penny today IMHO. Maybe even half a million bucks or thereabouts. Haha, no way a transcriber could make that kind of money honestly, at GoTranscript or elsewhere. However, if said transcriber takes the time to kind of look up all the numbers being used in this test, and kind of format some correctly. That transcriber might be able to make a pretty good amount of moolah, although not gold Lampstand level. It’s alright if you didn’t get some of the words right, although it’s not all right.
If any of those words were actually mentioned in the guidelines, and you got them wrong. The whole point here, in case you’re not getting it is that it’s not all right not to read the guidelines. That’s not just for numbers either. You should be able to properly italicize media titles, such as every cubicle worker’s favorite office space. This a special bonus tip for would-be transcribers who are actually paying attention. Go back up to the very top of your transcript. And right before the opening words, comma, quote in the year 1500 AD, comma, quote, put in parentheses the name of the actor who played poor Milton in that movie, and one other movie or TV show, he’s appeared in. Good luck.
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