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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DoorNumberFour on February 01, 2009, 01:18:57 PM
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I took the test this past Tuesday, and I still haven't gotten my results back.
Do they still email you, even if you failed it? I've taken it twice before, and each time I got an email back saying my score wasn't good enough for an in-person audition.
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I believe this year, they're not emailing you if you failed.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'207354\' date=\'Feb 1 2009, 05:09 PM\']
I believe this year, they're not emailing you if you failed.
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I never got any emails from them any of the times I took the test and I know I failed it at least once.
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I never got any e-mails from them saying I failed the test either, and I don't believe they send out failure/passing e-mails. They only contact you if they want you to audition.
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About how long after taking the test do they send an email, if you do pass?
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[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' post=\'207365\' date=\'Feb 1 2009, 10:23 PM\']
About how long after taking the test do they send an email, if you do pass?
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I'd like to know this myself. From what I understood they said that they can contact you any time between now and the next online test, but I'd thing something would be set in stone, no?
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'207370\' date=\'Feb 1 2009, 10:53 PM\']
[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' post=\'207365\' date=\'Feb 1 2009, 10:23 PM\']
About how long after taking the test do they send an email, if you do pass?
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I'd like to know this myself. From what I understood they said that they can contact you any time between now and the next online test, but I'd thing something would be set in stone, no?
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I took the online test last year. The next morning, at 6:30am, I got an email saying my score was not good enough to get an interview.
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What I'd like to know is why some people are getting emails and others aren't.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'207370\' date=\'Feb 1 2009, 07:53 PM\']From what I understood they said that they can contact you any time between now and the next online test, but I'd thing something would be set in stone, no?[/quote]
Nope...the first time I took the online test was January 2007, and I didn't hear a peep from J! until July, when I got an e-mail inviting me to an audition in Culver City.
(And that audition was 17-1/2 months before this year's online test, so I was ineligible.)
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So has J! now finished with any kind of "open call" auditions? Does everyone have to do the online test, even for the LA bookings?
R.
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I'd really like to see Wheel of Fortune do these sorts of tests, instead of "pick a dummy from a drum." [No offense to the above poster. ;)]
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None taken :) (For those of you playing at home, I was Dummy #37 at my tryout).
Do you not have to do the Wheelmobile pre-screen then on to the tryout proper?
R.
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I think they still have Brain Bus events, but if you took the online test this year you can't take another 30 question test this year.
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[quote name=\'vtown7\' post=\'207474\' date=\'Feb 2 2009, 07:49 PM\']Does everyone have to do the online test, even for the LA bookings?[/quote]
Yes, everyone does. I'm not even sure how often they do auditions in L.A. these days -- it was once a month under the open system, but I have a feeling it's less now.
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[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'207502\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 09:21 PM\']
[quote name=\'vtown7\' post=\'207474\' date=\'Feb 2 2009, 07:49 PM\']Does everyone have to do the online test, even for the LA bookings?[/quote]
Yes, everyone does. I'm not even sure how often they do auditions in L.A. these days -- it was once a month under the open system, but I have a feeling it's less now.
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I'd be inclined to think that way myself.
I did a little independent research myself last night...appparently you still have to take and pass the standard Jeopardy! test (for those who don't know, and I'm sure there's a couple- 50 questions one at a time displayed on a TV screen, pen and paper, still have to get 35 to pass.).
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'207503\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 06:24 PM\']I did a little independent research myself last night...appparently you still have to take and pass the standard Jeopardy! test (for those who don't know, and I'm sure there's a couple- 50 questions one at a time displayed on a TV screen, pen and paper, still have to get 35 to pass.).
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That's correct, although unlike in the olden days, the contestant coordinators don't grade them immediately -- they just put them away and go straight into the interview/mock game portion of the tryout. (They presume that no one in the room pulled the old switcheroo and had someone else take the online test for them.)
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[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'207611\' date=\'Feb 4 2009, 11:53 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'207503\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 06:24 PM\']I did a little independent research myself last night...appparently you still have to take and pass the standard Jeopardy! test (for those who don't know, and I'm sure there's a couple- 50 questions one at a time displayed on a TV screen, pen and paper, still have to get 35 to pass.).
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That's correct, although unlike in the olden days, the contestant coordinators don't grade them immediately -- they just put them away and go straight into the interview/mock game portion of the tryout. (They presume that no one in the room pulled the old switcheroo and had someone else take the online test for them.)
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I must say, that'd be quite the con to pull off.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'207614\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 12:22 AM\']I must say, that'd be quite the con to pull off.[/quote]
Well, certainly the first part of it wouldn't be difficult. You just get somebody else to take the online test for you, or have a helper (or helpers) over your shoulder while you do it.
For as big a deal as Jeopardy is making about going online, this seems to be a step that helps their contestant coordinators a lot more than it does any potential contestants. Back when I tried out (and at the time, I got the impression this was typical), only about 20% of the people who showed up passed the test. By essentially doing an online pre-screen, you're eliminating a lot of wasted effort.
Of course, the potential contestants it benefits the most are the non-locals who were on the fence about making the trip out to audition. An online test can help make up your mind for you...one way or the other.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'207633\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 10:16 AM\']
Of course, the potential contestants it benefits the most are the non-locals who were on the fence about making the trip out to audition. An online test can help make up your mind for you...one way or the other.
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(raises hand)
It also helps those who, like me, live in an area of the country where the show is unlikely to travel for auditions. Huntsville, AL is apparently too small a market (and apparently too indistinct a city, compared to, say, the even smaller Savannah, GA) for them to bother with. The nearest big markets within 100 miles of Huntsville are Birmingham and Nashville, two cities not known for having a high number of potential Jeopardy! contestants or strong affiliates (in Birmingham it runs against Wheel of Fortune, likely taking away much of the audience who might otherwise watch, and in Nashville it has never been highly-rated and thus struggles with a weak station, currently WUPX-30, the Sinclair-owned My Network TV affiliate).
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'207633\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 11:16 AM\']
Back when I tried out (and at the time, I got the impression this was typical), only about 20% of the people who showed up passed the test. [/quote]
At my friend's audition in Toronto a couple of years ago - a whopping 4%!
R.
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[quote name=\'vtown7\' post=\'207674\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 09:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'207633\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 11:16 AM\']
Back when I tried out (and at the time, I got the impression this was typical), only about 20% of the people who showed up passed the test. [/quote]
At my friend's audition in Toronto a couple of years ago - a whopping 4%!
R.
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I don't know how many out of my audition in Philly about 12 years ago, but there was about 100 in the room. Maybe, at most, 12 passed. I wish I remembered specifics.
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At the four tryouts I went to in the pre-online-test days, all in beautiful Culver City, the pass rate was maybe 10% to 15%.
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At my kids week tryout in Cleveland in May 2002, 9 passed out of about 85.
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[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'207687\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 12:04 AM\']
At my kids week tryout in Cleveland in May 2002, 9 passed out of about 85.
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That's a lot of kids you got! No wonder the tryout took a week.
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[quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'207694\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 04:44 AM\']
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'207687\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 12:04 AM\']
At my kids week tryout in Cleveland in May 2002, 9 passed out of about 85.
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That's a lot of kids you got! No wonder the tryout took a week.
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He'll be here all week, ladies and germs.
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[quote name=\'Tony Peters\' post=\'207672\' date=\'Feb 5 2009, 08:20 PM\']
(...and in Nashville it has never been highly-rated and thus struggles with a weak station, currently WUPX-30, the Sinclair-owned My Network TV affiliate).
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A quick look at the My30 website shows the weakness of the station:
http://www.mytv30web.com/ (http://\"http://www.mytv30web.com/\")
Check out that promo for DoND. Perhaps Howie is holding court?
/sure hope case 6 doesn't have Alimony in it
//generally speaking, it seems as if NO ONE working at TV stations pays any attention to detail anymore
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[quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'207694\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 07:44 AM\']
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'207687\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 12:04 AM\']
At my kids week tryout in Cleveland in May 2002, 9 passed out of about 85.
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That's a lot of kids you got! No wonder the tryout took a week.
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Wait'll Nadya Suleman's 14 kids are eligible. It'll be a tryout month.
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'207735\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 03:58 PM\']Wait'll Nadya Suleman's 14 kids are eligible. It'll be a tryout month.[/quote]
By then, at the rate they're going, Feud could almost do a full week of Suleman vs. Duggar. :-/
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[quote name=\'mrchips\' post=\'207758\' date=\'Feb 7 2009, 09:34 AM\']
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'207735\' date=\'Feb 6 2009, 03:58 PM\']Wait'll Nadya Suleman's 14 kids are eligible. It'll be a tryout month.[/quote]
By then, at the rate they're going, Feud could almost do a full week of Suleman vs. Duggar. :-/
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Feud? Think big--1 vs. 100. 15 Sulemans plus the father of the 14 kids + 20 Duggars + the McCaughey septuplets and their parents + Jon and Kate plus 8 + an episode's worth of Maury "paternity test" show guests and you have your mob!