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Online assessment, which consisted of 25 grammar and text editing questions. You get one point for each correct answer and a negative point for each incorrect answer. If you get 17 or more points, you pass the test and will receive an email offer.
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Physics Editor

Interviewed at Cactus Communications

3.7
Nov 9, 2021

Online assessment, which consisted of 25 grammar and text editing questions. You get one point for each correct answer and a negative point for each incorrect answer. If you get 17 or more points, you pass the test and will receive an email offer.

The final phase is responding to feedback and re-editing the same passage. This is where it got a lot stranger. Some of the feedback was sketchy, in terms of accuracy or meaning. In my selection there was a random sentence that came out of nowhere with no context. it made no sense. I noted this and assumed in a real situation you could ask for author clarification. I gave feedback that it made no sense and then was given that same feedback. I changed the sentence and then didn't get the job because "I altered the nuance of author meaning."
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Editor

Interviewed at Cactus Communications

3.7
Dec 1, 2018

The final phase is responding to feedback and re-editing the same passage. This is where it got a lot stranger. Some of the feedback was sketchy, in terms of accuracy or meaning. In my selection there was a random sentence that came out of nowhere with no context. it made no sense. I noted this and assumed in a real situation you could ask for author clarification. I gave feedback that it made no sense and then was given that same feedback. I changed the sentence and then didn't get the job because "I altered the nuance of author meaning."

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