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red_chucks wrote:I checked this thread as I wait for an email about Chicago.

I feel very strongly that review of what you know can help you to load it into top of mind. Sometimes I take a beat to separate Sartre from Camus and Chandler from Hammett. That's material I should know immediately, and it could help.

Studying something you don't know about is probably a waste of time. I reviewed contemporary Nashville music for the on-line test because I missed a question last year about Lady Antebellum. I went Hah! when there was a question this year and banged in Carrie Underwood with glee. The answer was Taylor Swift. I vaguely know the difference--Kanye West disrespected one of them at some awards event and not the other. They are only names to me. One year to prep I made a list of people on NPR who wrote books in the previous year, because the online quiz had that question a couple of times. They asked a question, and I answered Pinkwater for Sedaris. My kid laughed and laughed when I told the story. He said Sedaris is in The New Yorker all the time--you know, Dad, the funny essays by the gay guy in France. I said that guy is on NPR? I couldn't even make a connection to something I knew because the NPR names were just names.

About Bob Harris-style learning: The old board's own Sven did it and was a champ. As I remember his story about his last show: There was a question he knew he had learned the answer to, he even knew which notebook it was in, but he wasn't confident enough about knowing the answer to buzz in.

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John Boy wrote:Be careful about mixing and matching substances. I heard about a guy who took both Viagra and Rogaine, and all he got was stright hair.
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tjconn728 wrote:Thought I'd pass the info along that on Thursday I got an email invite to a Philadelphia audition on 3/27. Not sure, but I think I scored 35 on the central test. I didn't think that was good enough to make it, so the email was a welcome surprise.
I also received an invite to Philadelphia on the 27th. Have you received your conformation email after you sent in your RSVP?
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Just received an invite to Dallas on March 28 at 3pm. I know for a fact that I got a 34 on the Central test. Absolutely shocked and stunned right now.
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Creed Bratton wrote:Just received an invite to Dallas on March 28 at 3pm. I know for a fact that I got a 34 on the Central test.
That should give britt408 some hope.
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Creed Bratton wrote:Just received an invite to Dallas on March 28 at 3pm. I know for a fact that I got a 34 on the Central test.
The consensus was that the Central test was harder than the others. Maybe they curved the grades?
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Magna wrote:
Creed Bratton wrote:Just received an invite to Dallas on March 28 at 3pm. I know for a fact that I got a 34 on the Central test.
The consensus was that the Central test was harder than the others. Maybe they curved the grades?
Possibly. I must have also been in the second wave of Dallas auditions, since some people reported getting an e-mail the other day? Maybe they were short and had to go a bit further down the pool?
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So disappointed. I passed the test with a 41 but it looks like I won't be getting an in person audition this year. 3 years running with a passing score and no audition :( My city is DC.
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Hello everyone. I was a member on the official Jeopardy board (formerly computerprojoe14) and found this site through some mutual members on the WWTBAM bored. I received an email today for the Chicago audition on May 17th. I took the PST test since I wasn't able to take the central test and from self scoring based on the transcripts here I got a 37.
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Creed Bratton wrote:
Magna wrote:
Creed Bratton wrote:Just received an invite to Dallas on March 28 at 3pm. I know for a fact that I got a 34 on the Central test.
The consensus was that the Central test was harder than the others. Maybe they curved the grades?
Possibly. I must have also been in the second wave of Dallas auditions, since some people reported getting an e-mail the other day? Maybe they were short and had to go a bit further down the pool?
Maybe you had one or two that you thought you hadn't typed in the space in time, but actually did type enough for them to accept? Or they decided to accept an answer to something we all thought is wrong (hey it happens on the real show, why not on the test?).
And maybe some of the initial people had to decline for some reason and now they're filling in the gaps.
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debramc wrote:Maybe you had one or two that you thought you hadn't typed in the space in time, but actually did type enough for them to accept? Or they decided to accept an answer to something we all thought is wrong (hey it happens on the real show, why not on the test?).
Another possibility occurs to me, which is that they had to throw out a question entirely, making it a test of 49 valid questions.

For example, I think the question about the opera Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in 1898 might have been rejected, since he actually wrote it in 1897 - its first performance was in 1898. I think the question might have come from this show, where it was a triple stumper:
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?g ... y-korsakov
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Maybe you had one or two that you thought you hadn't typed in the space in time, but actually did type enough for them to accept? Or they decided to accept an answer to something we all thought is wrong (hey it happens on the real show, why not on the test?).
And maybe some of the initial people had to decline for some reason and now they're filling in the gaps.
Nope, I specifically remember being furious at myself for having a 34 and changing a couple that I had right to wrong answers, but I didn't have any where I didn't answer on time. Went through the answers 3 times trying to convince myself that somehow I got a 35, but didn't. Maybe they just need somebody from Arkansas...
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Anybody else received an email about Chicago? I keep anxiously checking my email here at work. :?
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scornel wrote:
tjconn728 wrote:Thought I'd pass the info along that on Thursday I got an email invite to a Philadelphia audition on 3/27. Not sure, but I think I scored 35 on the central test. I didn't think that was good enough to make it, so the email was a welcome surprise.
I also received an invite to Philadelphia on the 27th. Have you received your conformation email after you sent in your RSVP?
I did. I sent my confirmation email on March 2, and I got the confirmation back from the show on March 7.
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Setho wrote:So disappointed. I passed the test with a 41 but it looks like I won't be getting an in person audition this year. 3 years running with a passing score and no audition :( My city is DC.
Based on my experience, if you could manage it maybe you should try a different city next year. This is the first year I got a passing score (and at 35 barely so) but was fortunate enough to get an audition. I live in Baltimore and work in DC, so DC would have been the most convenient for me, but I put my audition city down as Philly because I figured I'd have a better shot there. The Philly metro area has a few hundred thousand more people, but being in between New York and DC I figured it wouldn't have as many overflow applicants from neighboring metros, whereas DC would probably be the audition city for most of Virginia and North Carolina as well. Plus, the DC area has so many highly-educated folks that I thought a higher percentage of people may qualify.

Obviously this may all just be coincidental, but it happened to have worked for me.
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Setho wrote:So disappointed. I passed the test with a 41 but it looks like I won't be getting an in person audition this year. 3 years running with a passing score and no audition :( My city is DC.
Man, it makes me wonder how well I did to get an audition. I'll have to pass along the Philly trick to my friend here at work who has also been trying for years.
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tjconn728 wrote:
Setho wrote:So disappointed. I passed the test with a 41 but it looks like I won't be getting an in person audition this year. 3 years running with a passing score and no audition :( My city is DC.
Based on my experience, if you could manage it maybe you should try a different city next year. This is the first year I got a passing score (and at 35 barely so) but was fortunate enough to get an audition. I live in Baltimore and work in DC, so DC would have been the most convenient for me, but I put my audition city down as Philly because I figured I'd have a better shot there. The Philly metro area has a few hundred thousand more people, but being in between New York and DC I figured it wouldn't have as many overflow applicants from neighboring metros, whereas DC would probably be the audition city for most of Virginia and North Carolina as well. Plus, the DC area has so many highly-educated folks that I thought a higher percentage of people may qualify.

Obviously this may all just be coincidental, but it happened to have worked for me.

The problem with that reasoning is that they hold more audition sessions in NYC and DC than in Philly (based on past experience). I don't have the data, though, to see if there are enough more sessions to compensate for the expected larger total number of passers.
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tjconn728 wrote:
scornel wrote:
tjconn728 wrote:Thought I'd pass the info along that on Thursday I got an email invite to a Philadelphia audition on 3/27. Not sure, but I think I scored 35 on the central test. I didn't think that was good enough to make it, so the email was a welcome surprise.
I also received an invite to Philadelphia on the 27th. Have you received your conformation email after you sent in your RSVP?
I did. I sent my confirmation email on March 2, and I got the confirmation back from the show on March 7.
Really? I sent my confirmation email on March 2 but still haven't received the confirmation back. Now I'm getting worried...
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scornel wrote:
Really? I sent my confirmation email on March 2 but still haven't received the confirmation back. Now I'm getting worried...
Check your junk mail folder, then email the contestant coordinators. It shouldn't take them this long to get back to you.
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Just got the invite for Chicago. Since they've reopened registration for the adult test, my mom has decided to sign up and try. It'd be great if we could do the Chicago audition together.
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