Court Reporters Certification
The court reporter certification exam is not a practice exam. You must be fully prepared and practice extensively prior to registering to test.
The oral exam is composed of three five (5) minutes segments, which are as follows:
- A two-voice dictation of questions and answers given at 225 words per minute,
- A jury charge given at 200 words per minute, and
- Selected literary material given at 180 words per minute.
Each applicant shall personally take down the test and shall reduce the takedown to writing on a manual or electric typewriter or computer.
The minimum passing grade on each section of the oral exam is ninety-five percent (95%) accuracy.
Applicants are permitted use a dictionary during the oral exam.
Applicants will be allowed three (3) hours to complete the transcription of the oral exam of the test. If time permits, an applicant may review his or her transcript but may use only the original takedown from which the transcript was prepared to review the transcript.
The oral exam cannot be passed in legs.
Grading of the Oral Certification Exam
The minimum passing grade on each section of the oral exam is ninety-five percent (95%) accuracy. An error shall be charged for:
- Each wrong word;
- Each omitted word;
- Each added word not dictated;
- Each contraction where read as two (2) words;
- Two (2) words where read as a contraction;
- Each misplaced word;
- Each misplaced period that materially alters the sense of a group of words or a sentence;
- Each misspelled word;
- Each plural or singular if the opposite was dictated; and
- Each wrong number.