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Correspondence - Letters and Memoranda
With insets, continuation sheets, subject headings, enclosures, attention lines, including private, personal, confidential and indicating distribution of carbon copies.
PREAMBLE/AIM
The aim of the examination is to test candidates' ability to produce mailable documents at 40 words per minute and be able to apply such skill in solving practical office problems.
Warming Up
5 minutes for warming up on the material supplied by the Council in the examination paper. The time taken for typing the preliminary passage will not be included in the time for the examination.
DETAILED SYLLABUS
Tasks may be presented in a mixture of manuscript, typescript and printed drafts with interpolations and manuscript correction signs.
Speed and Accuracy Test Details
The speed and accuracy test will be set at 40 words per minute and will carry 10 percent of the total marks. The syllabic intensity of the passage will range between 1.35 and 1.40.
course outline
- PREAMBLE/AIM
- SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
- Examination Duration
- Warming Up
- Speed and Accuracy Test
- Paper Reading Time
- Production Tasks Time
- Speed and Accuracy Test Details
- Production Test Details
- Total Standard Words
- Instructions Attracting Penalties
- DETAILED SYLLABUS
- Correspondence - Letters and Memoranda
- Correspondence - Form Letters and Circular Letters
- Correspondence - Envelope Addressing
- Correspondence - Use of Pre-printed Paper