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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: PYLdude on January 17, 2012, 06:28:10 PM
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Just a reminder for those who signed up. Don't know if you still can but whatevs I suppose. (Anybody know if you could do that?)
Check your emails and good luck.
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Okay, test night one over...who took it and how d'ya think you did?
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I used my camera to record the screen as I was taking the test. Then I checked halfway through and found the camera had stopped, so I switched to screen captures (which would have been a better idea in the first place). Ended up with 45 questions recorded. After checking my answers against Google's search results and thinking back to the unrecorded questions...I think I'm somewhere in the high 30's. Woo-hoo! That's C+ material, folks!
\Isn't the diploma supposed to mean I don't have to take tests anymore?
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Made up my mind last week to take the test, but then a game of Wii Jeopardy! over the weekend where I finished 2nd with $4,800 to Player 2's $53,400 changed my mind quickly. I didn't think I sucked THAT bad at J! but I guess so. Oh well. Guess I'll just wait for the Wheelmobile to roll back through this parts again...
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(Anybody know if you could (still sign up for the test)? ETA: The answer apparently is no.)
Bumping for another reminder to our Central Time Zone viewers or our Eastern Time Zoners who signed up but have yet to take the test...tonight's your night. Of course you don't necessarily need to read this (your email inbox will tell you I'm certain) but hey, figure I'd be nice and remind you anyway.
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took the test, passed with 42/50!
They didn't randomly pick me last year when I passed, so here's hoping they invite me this year.
The info I have shows I would have to take another 50 question test, does anyone know if the same 35/50 score is required to pass?
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took the test, passed with 42/50!
They didn't randomly pick me last year when I passed, so here's hoping they invite me this year.
The info I have shows I would have to take another 50 question test, does anyone know if the same 35/50 score is required to pass?
Before I answer this, how do you know for sure what your score was? Checking afterward, I assume?
I know this much- the online test is treated just like the old audition test was. The test you take at the in-person audition, as far as I could tell, was just a warmup kind of deal. Once the test was done and graded you were called up three at a time to do the mock game based on how you scored on that test.
Basically once you pass the online test you're in the contestant pool and can't come out. It's just a matter of how you do in the interview and such that determines whether or not you have a better shot of coming out of that pool than you might have going in (long shot either way). That's what we were told when I went back in '09. Eighteen months, I believe, is the length of time you're in said pool before you can take the online test again. (Seriously, don't try.)
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It's just a matter of how you do in the interview and such that determines whether or not you have a better shot of coming out of that pool than you might have going in (long shot either way). That's what we were told when I went back in '09.
How long was it between the online test and when you were called for the in-person interview and mock game?
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It's just a matter of how you do in the interview and such that determines whether or not you have a better shot of coming out of that pool than you might have going in (long shot either way). That's what we were told when I went back in '09.
How long was it between the online test and when you were called for the in-person interview and mock game?
I got the email in May and went in June...so 4 months for one and 5 for the other. It could also depend on when they hold the auditions in certain areas if they do at all (they say that even though you may pick a city to audition in, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to do it there).
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Secondary question I guess, but oh well... To any members here who have actually been on-air contestants, is there any advice you could give to prospective contestants (i.e., the people here taking the test now), on the off-chance they pass the tests, and do well enough on the auditions and other preliminaries that they get to the studio for a taping?
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I know this much- the online test is treated just like the old audition test was. The test you take at the in-person audition, as far as I could tell, was just a warmup kind of deal. Once the test was done and graded you were called up three at a time to do the mock game based on how you scored on that test.
As I understand it, the in-person test plays the important role of making sure you're the same person who took the online test (and you didn't quickly Google the answers or whatever). At the two auditions I've been to under the "online test first" system, they didn't even grade the in-person tests while we potential contestants were present; they just set them aside and started the mock game/interviews right away.
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I know this much- the online test is treated just like the old audition test was. The test you take at the in-person audition, as far as I could tell, was just a warmup kind of deal. Once the test was done and graded you were called up three at a time to do the mock game based on how you scored on that test.
As I understand it, the in-person test plays the important role of making sure you're the same person who took the online test (and you didn't quickly Google the answers or whatever). At the two auditions I've been to under the "online test first" system, they didn't even grade the in-person tests while we potential contestants were present; they just set them aside and started the mock game/interviews right away.
Maybe I was misremembering? Or perhaps they did your auditions differently? Seems a little weird that they'd do it one way for me and another way for you.
Morbid fun fact: Michael Jackson died on the day I took my test.
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One more bump...for those of you living in Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, or Hawaii time, your turn comes tonight.
Also, if you signed up and haven't had the chance to take it yet, last chance...
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Anyone know if its mobile friendly?
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Depends on the mobile, but I'm guessing it's Flash-based, which right off the bat disqualifies a very large percentage of the mobile phone market.
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Depends on the mobile, but I'm guessing it's Flash-based, which right off the bat disqualifies a very large percentage of the mobile phone market.
It is Flash-based. Tried to do the log in test with my Touch and it didn't work.
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Someone better educated in smartphones can probably answer this for me: Why hasn't a smartphone capable of flash come out yet? You'd think they'd all be scrambling to be the first, wouldn't you? And if one has already come out, why aren't all the others on board with it yet?
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Missed it this year. Forgot to register and am I sorry!
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Why hasn't a smartphone capable of flash come out yet? You'd think they'd all be scrambling to be the first, wouldn't you? And if one has already come out, why aren't all the others on board with it yet?
Three (and a half) reasons:
1) Steve Jobs, even from beyond the grave, has a tendency to act like a petulant child when the world doesn't bow down to him.
2) Adobe sucks and should be destroyed. By extension:
2a) Adobe, for whatever reason, seems to be incapable of writing any kind of phone-based Flash that doesn't completely suck in terms of performance. (There's an argument that suggests they can't do it for full-blown-PCs either, but that's a different discussion.)
3) HTML 5 has rendered Flash largely unnecessary, so right now it's a matter of getting people off of a de facto standard onto a, well, standard.
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Also because Flash has extended well beyond it's original intention (displaying animation), and therefore has a very large core that needs to be loaded even to do the most basic of things expected from apps. Other than to point it out, efficient and Adobe have never appeared in the same sentence.
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2a) Adobe, for whatever reason, seems to be incapable of writing any kind of phone-based Flash that doesn't completely suck in terms of performance. (There's an argument that suggests they can't do it for full-blown-PCs either, but that's a different discussion.)
Not that I don't like Flash, but it'd be nice for my 8-year old laptop to actually be able to go onto YouTube and watch videos and stuff.
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2a) Adobe, for whatever reason, seems to be incapable of writing any kind of phone-based Flash that doesn't completely suck in terms of performance. (There's an argument that suggests they can't do it for full-blown-PCs either, but that's a different discussion.)
Not that I don't like Flash, but it'd be nice for my 8-year old laptop to actually be able to go onto YouTube and watch videos and stuff.
So why can't it? I have a 9 year old Dell somewhere and it runs the tube fine.
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Maybe I was misremembering? Or perhaps they did your auditions differently? Seems a little weird that they'd do it one way for me and another way for you.
Different members of the contestant staff conducting yours versus mine? Contestant staff at your audition suddenly having a flashback to the olden days? The fact that my auditions have been in Culver City, so they only had to drive the tests 5 minutes back to the office?
It seems weird that they would make you wait while they graded the in-person tests -- they didn't tell anyone to leave after they graded the ones at your audition, did they?
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Maybe I was misremembering? Or perhaps they did your auditions differently? Seems a little weird that they'd do it one way for me and another way for you.
Different members of the contestant staff conducting yours versus mine? Contestant staff at your audition suddenly having a flashback to the olden days? The fact that my auditions have been in Culver City, so they only had to drive the tests 5 minutes back to the office?
It seems weird that they would make you wait while they graded the in-person tests -- they didn't tell anyone to leave after they graded the ones at your audition, did they?
No they didn't. As I remember the grading was only for what amounted to what might best be described as a seeding, whereas we were called up three at a time based on testing scores for the written test we took there.