I've heard of them. I've never received one.koam wrote:Has anyone heard of emailed Audition invitations following the January home test?
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I've heard of them. I've never received one.koam wrote:Has anyone heard of emailed Audition invitations following the January home test?
I'm guessing if you're receiving the occasional email from Sony Pictures and/or Jeopardy that they send out (if you asked for it), then The Email (why is this not yet a term?) should get to you no problem.RandyG wrote:[email protected]Heatherly0916 wrote:Do you recall what address the email came from? I have strict junk mail filtering, and although I've added the online test reminder email address to my safe list, I worry about missing email from a different address.
[email protected]
Umm-hmmm.... apparently passing the online test is only a ticket to a lottery. Most bloggers agree that 35 is a passing score, although this may change and probably is adjusted to suit demands & need. If you achieve a pass score your name goes into a random number generator with about a 3% +/-1% chance of selection, depending on #tested #passed #needed and other #s unknown and unknowable. From the audition about 15% -20% of candidates go to the pool (this figure varies annually and depends on # in pool and number anticipated need in the candidate pool); and of these about 1/6 may eventually get drawn for a taping. So odds of getting in after a passing test score online are now around (0.03)(0.15)(.167) = 0.00075, or ~0.08% (slightly less than one-tenth of one percent odds for the math challenged among us ). This is a consequence of enormous numbers of online test takers (over 200k each test) and need to filter them into a manageable size. So yeah now it's a helluva lotto. Still, someone must get on, so keep studying and testing! No call = moar study time!koozbane wrote:I'm in my 17th year of trying to get on Jeopardy. During that time, I've made it to 5 in-person auditions: 3 in Boston, 1 in NYC, and 1 in Burlington, VT. I've also been to a Brain Bus event in Washington, DC. I've passed everything swimmingly, but alas, have not made it on the show. My guess is that I'm too ugly for TV!
Oddly, all 5 auditions were before they started online testing. You applied via postcard or online and then got an invite or not. Under that format, I was 5-for-5. Five applications, five invitations.
Since the onset of the online test, I've not made it to an audition. I pass each year in the range of 45, but have never gotten a subsequent invitation. My guess is the online test has brought a lot more people into the mix, decreasing the chances of getting an invite.
I understood the article to mean that, of 200k who sign up to take the test, 100k actually finish taking it. (The others, I suppose, either don't take it at all, or quit before it's over.)goatman wrote:(amazing that 100k ppl get passing online scores; this has got to be from 'household group testing'; when the 'groupies' show up without their buddies and family members to prompt them they don't do so well, eh? = the only silver lining in your playbook)
I think that you're misreading what's there. From what I read, 200K sign up to take the test and 100K actually take the online tests. There's no information given (from what I see) about the number who pass (I'd be shocked if that number is ever announced since they don't even publicly announce the passing score), just that 2000-3000 get an audition invitation. If my interpretation is correct and we posit that ~10% of the test takers get a "passing" score of 35 or more, then your odds of getting an audition invite are more like 20-30%, which is much more consistent with what we've seen on this board for boardie audition odds.goatman wrote: Umm-hmmm.... apparently passing the online test is only a ticket to a lottery. Most bloggers agree that 35 is a passing score, although this may change and probably is adjusted to suit demands & need. If you achieve a pass score your name goes into a random number generator with about a 3% +/-1% chance of selection, depending on #tested #passed #needed and other #s unknown and unknowable. From the audition about 15% -20% of candidates go to the pool (this figure varies annually and depends on # in pool and number anticipated need in the candidate pool); and of these about 1/6 may eventually get drawn for a taping. So odds of getting in after a passing test score online are now around (0.03)(0.15)(.167) = 0.00075, or ~0.08% (slightly less than one-tenth of one percent odds for the math challenged among us ). This is a consequence of enormous numbers of online test takers (over 200k each test) and need to filter them into a manageable size. So yeah now it's a helluva lotto. Still, someone must get on, so keep studying and testing! No call = moar study time!
You can check out the depressing stats at this news link (amazing that 100k ppl get passing online scores; this has got to be from 'household group testing'; when the 'groupies' show up without their buddies and family members to prompt them they don't do so well, eh? = the only silver lining in your playbook):
http://www.abc17news.com/news/behind-th ... index.html
From the 5 "old school" tryouts I attended, a 7-10% pass rate is accurate.Woof wrote:If my interpretation is correct and we posit that ~10% of the test takers get a "passing" score of 35 or more, then your odds of getting an audition invite are more like 20-30%, which is much more consistent with what we've seen on this board for boardie audition odds.
Will there be a second edit when you notice the note for your first edit accidentally a WHOLE word or two?NYCScribbler wrote:Online test: mid-January 2012. Either the 16th or the 18th; Eastern test was the 17th, but I had a game to be at.
Audition: June 5th, 2012, NYC
Taping: November 14th, 2012, then November 27th, 2012
Airdates: March 28th, 2013-April 4th, 2013
Ka-ching: July 2013
{edited because I accidentally a WHOLE day}
And, of course, I thought that was intentional. Leaving out 'left out' or omitting 'omitted' is a good joke.opusthepenguin wrote:Will there be a second edit when you notice the note for your first edit accidentally a WHOLE word or two?NYCScribbler wrote:Online test: mid-January 2012. Either the 16th or the 18th; Eastern test was the 17th, but I had a game to be at.
Audition: June 5th, 2012, NYC
Taping: November 14th, 2012, then November 27th, 2012
Airdates: March 28th, 2013-April 4th, 2013
Ka-ching: July 2013
{edited because I accidentally a WHOLE day}
goatman wrote:Umm-hmmm.... apparently passing the online test is only a ticket to a lottery. Most bloggers agree that 35 is a passing score, although this may change and probably is adjusted to suit demands & need. If you achieve a pass score your name goes into a random number generator with about a 3% +/-1% chance of selection, depending on #tested #passed #needed and other #s unknown and unknowable. From the audition about 15% -20% of candidates go to the pool (this figure varies annually and depends on # in pool and number anticipated need in the candidate pool); and of these about 1/6 may eventually get drawn for a taping. So odds of getting in after a passing test score online are now around (0.03)(0.15)(.167) = 0.00075, or ~0.08% (slightly less than one-tenth of one percent odds for the math challenged among us ). This is a consequence of enormous numbers of online test takers (over 200k each test) and need to filter them into a manageable size. So yeah now it's a helluva lotto. Still, someone must get on, so keep studying and testing! No call = moar study time!koozbane wrote:I'm in my 17th year of trying to get on Jeopardy. During that time, I've made it to 5 in-person auditions: 3 in Boston, 1 in NYC, and 1 in Burlington, VT. I've also been to a Brain Bus event in Washington, DC. I've passed everything swimmingly, but alas, have not made it on the show. My guess is that I'm too ugly for TV!
Oddly, all 5 auditions were before they started online testing. You applied via postcard or online and then got an invite or not. Under that format, I was 5-for-5. Five applications, five invitations.
Since the onset of the online test, I've not made it to an audition. I pass each year in the range of 45, but have never gotten a subsequent invitation. My guess is the online test has brought a lot more people into the mix, decreasing the chances of getting an invite.
I'm not sure where you got these numbers, but it's hard to accept them at face value. If 200k people take the quiz, and 400 or so get on the show, that's .2% of all test-takers, which is a far cry from .1% of all test-passers.
Back in the pre-online-quiz days they used to say that 10-15% of wannabes at the "cattle-call" auditions would actually pass the test. This was one reason to do away with them; it's just too much work sifting through all that chaff to get to too little wheat.
If today that number is higher (possibly from people getting illegal help sitting at their computers) then you can imagine 20% of 200k people pass the test, or around 40,000. Sounds to me that more like 1% of test-passers will get on the show.
Of course the part that hurts is getting into the lottery and not getting invited (which has happened to me three times). If they have a dozen audition cities and invite 200 to each, that's about 2,400 invited to interviews out of 40,000 passers, or about 6%.
Out of those 2,400 they invite 400 (probably fewer, with all the new tournaments and special weeks they keep inventing). But if it's 400 new regular contestants, that's about 1/6 of the auditioners.
No idea where you get the idea that 15-20% of auditioners go to the pool. By definition if you get invited to an audition you are in the pool. You may be deemed a less desirable candidate and not be moved to the top of the CC's' list, but you're in the pool
By my estimations, your chances of becoming a contestant are more like:
If you take the online quiz: 400/200,000 or so, 0.2%;
If you pass the online quiz: 400/40,000 or so, 1%;
If you get invited to an audition: 1/6 or so, which coincidentally is very similar to the pre-online-quiz days, when they told us that annually 2,000 or so would pass the quiz at the various regional auditions, brain bus auditions, etc.; and 400 (1/5) would be chosen.
Much is unknown, of course, and I don't proclaim this as Gospel. I know the odds are long, but not nearly as bleak as you paint them.
And of course, good luck to both of us in getting on the show.
You can check out the depressing stats at this news link (amazing that 100k ppl get passing online scores; this has got to be from 'household group testing'; when the 'groupies' show up without their buddies and family members to prompt them they don't do so well, eh? = the only silver lining in your playbook):
http://www.abc17news.com/news/behind-th ... index.html
Auditioned myself around the same time for the Teen Tournament, still holding out hope for a call to come. Lucky you!!!Lumosityfan wrote:Took online test September of 2013.
Received audition invite October 2013 for Teen Tournament.
Went to Audition November 21, 2013.
Finally got the Call February 4, 2014!
My first one was Cleveland, 6/12/08.Frank Hardy wrote:Online test: Jan. 29, 2008.
Email: May 2, 2008.
Audition in Cleveland: June 10, 2008.
I was fortunate enough to pass the screening quiz and took the 50-item quiz the next day. I thought it was easier, and passed it handily.FireAntsDefense wrote:No, and I think it was Corina who said "I'm sorry, you didn't pass." I had to drive to Durham that night, so I took off right after. Yourself?John Boy wrote:What a coincidence.FireAntsDefense wrote:Brain Bus: Asheville 2004. I remember because next morning I woke up with the granddaddy of all hangovers and the first thing I saw when I cut on the TV was someone throwing a cup at Ron Artest
I also attended the Brain Bus audition in Asheville. Did you pass the screening quiz and advance to take the big quiz the second day?
John Boy wrote:I took the very first online quiz in 2006. don't recall the date or even the month, but it was early in the year.
Got an email invitation first week of April and attended live audition in Indianapolis May 1.
Since then I've passed the online quiz three more times without another invitation to audition. This year I passed again (at least I'm assuming my 39 is good enough) and here I sits waiting by the phone like a deranged teenager, waiting for another invitation.
Based on what people have posted here, yes.koam wrote:Is it common for people to pass the online test and not receive an audition invitation?