COMPUTER LITERACY CHALLENGE EXAM GUIDELINES
	TIMED TYPING
	Each student must type from a prepared manuscript for a full three minutes.
	Each mistake in the following areas is counted as one error: spelling, typing, punctuation, spacing (leaving no spaces or putting two spaces between words), indentations, capitalizations, inconsistent spacing between sentences (either one or two spaces is acceptable as long as it is consistent).
	Typing double words, word omissions, and word additions are also errors (each word omissionand/or word addition counts as one error).
	CRITERION FOR PASSING:
	25 words per minute with 3 or fewer errors.
	33 words per minute with 4 or fewer errors
	42 words per minute with 5 or fewer errors.
	50 words per minute with 6 or fewer errors.
	58 words per minute with 7 or fewer errors
	67 words per minute with 8 or fewer errors.
	75 words per minute with 9 or fewer errors.
	SAMPLE TEST
	When a student has demonstrated that he/she can type 30 words a minute or more on the keyboarding program, All the Right Type, he/she should do the practice typing test. If he passes the sample test successfully, he may take the district keyboarding profiency test under the supervision of the applied technology teacher.