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Lesson 29-D+, Language Arts
Repeat this drill until you have two errors maximum.

Lesson 34-e, Memos

Lesson 34, Correspondence 34-14, Proofreading Check Memo

Click the thumbnail picture to the right to see a full-sized view of Correspondence 34-14. This memo contains a URL Internet address at the end of the second paragraph. After you type a URL and press the space bar, the address might be underlined and replaced with a hyperlink. GDP turns off the feature that replaces Internet paths with hyperlinks, but you might work on a computer in which this feature is on.

• If you don't want a URL to be converted to a hyperlink, click the Undo button or press Ctrl-Z immediately after pressing the space bar.
• To remove a hyperlink later on, right-click the hyperlinked text. Click Hyperlink, Remove Hyperlink from the shortcut menu.

Lesson 30-D, 3-Minute Timed Writing
TW Goal: 32/5e

The goal on any practice test is to have zero scoring errors and zero formatting errors on the first created, scored attempt within the time limit just as you will be required to do when you take your actual test for a grade of A. If you edit the document instead of recreating it, I will not even look at that attempt, so don’t waste your valuable time editing. I grade the first scored attempt only. In other words, YOU MAY NOT EDIT A PRACTICE TEST! If you exit and find you had any errors, click Create . . . (not Edit . . .) and try it again. You may try to recreate a practice test as many times as you want to and you should. This is how you prepare yourself for a test in which you get one attempt only.

Goal: Zero scoring errors and zero formatting errors on the first attempt in 25 minutes maximum.

This document has been designated as a practice test because it is very similar to the actual document processing test you will take next week. 

• Click the Create Correspondence 35-19 button and type this document correcting all typos and formatting errors. Remember to type an envelope and add it to the document.
• If you exit and find you had any errors, click Create . . . (not Edit . . .) and try it again.

• After you exit and score your document with zero errors, click Portfolio.
• In the Student Portfolio window, click the desired lesson and exercise, and click the View Text button.
• In the report header, look at Time in MS Word to see how much time you spent working on the exercise. The elapsed time begins when you click the Create or Edit button and ends when you click GDP, Return to GDP.

Note: You will need to know proofreaders' marks to be prepared for next week's test, which is a rough draft letter with proofreaders' marks. Review 27E, Basic Proofreaders' Marks, pp. 68-69, and 29E, More Proofreaders' Marks, p. 76. You can also look up these marks in GDP's online Reference Manual, Contents tab, Proofreaders' Marks.

Note: Remember—when you take an actual test, you will have only one attempt on any document and it must be perfect—no typos and no formatting errors and it must be completed within the time limit for a grade of A.