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Typing and keyboard skills: applied practice: open practice pack: answer key

20 untimed questions across 4 authored sections.

This is untimed educational practice for one applied skill. It is not a clinical, diagnostic, employment, or professionally recognized assessment, it does not produce a score or credential, and for the judgement and safety families it is not a substitute for your employer's own policies, training, or legal duties.

Answer key

ItemChoiceAnswer
typing-keyboard-applied-s01-q01DInvoice 4820-B, due 14/03, GBP 1,275.40
typing-keyboard-applied-s01-q02BA transposition: two adjacent letters typed in the wrong order
typing-keyboard-applied-s01-q03CA dropped apostrophe has turned a possessive singular into a plural
typing-keyboard-applied-s01-q04ACompare it against the source in small groups of digits, or use a field with a check digit that rejects an invalid number
typing-keyboard-applied-s01-q05BProofread the finished text yourself: a correctly spelled word in the wrong place is invisible to a spell-checker
typing-keyboard-applied-s02-q01COn F
typing-keyboard-applied-s02-q02AThey let a touch typist find the home position by feel, without looking down
typing-keyboard-applied-s02-q03DKeeping wrists straight rather than bent, forearms roughly level, the screen near eye height, and taking short breaks regularly
typing-keyboard-applied-s02-q04BAll ten digits and the common operators sit under one hand with almost no movement, and the 5 key carries a locating bump for touch entry
typing-keyboard-applied-s02-q05DEach use removes a hand-to-mouse round trip and a visual search, and that is where most of the time in repetitive work goes
typing-keyboard-applied-s03-q01AFlag it for verification and record the uncertainty rather than choose between them
typing-keyboard-applied-s03-q02D03/02/2024
typing-keyboard-applied-s03-q03BTranscribe it exactly as given and raise a query, because the job is fidelity to the source plus a flag
typing-keyboard-applied-s03-q04CWhen an undetected error would be costly and no automatic validation can catch it
typing-keyboard-applied-s03-q05AKeep the checking discipline and report that the batch will be short, because an error costs more downstream than the delay does
typing-keyboard-applied-s04-q01BNet applies a penalty for errors, so it is the figure that reflects usable output
typing-keyboard-applied-s04-q02CA standard unit of five keystrokes, including spaces
typing-keyboard-applied-s04-q03A55 with no errors, because finding and correcting an error costs far more than the extra speed saved
typing-keyboard-applied-s04-q04DPractise at a pace you can hold without looking down and without errors, drilling the specific sequences you get wrong; speed follows accuracy
typing-keyboard-applied-s04-q05CIt is expected: typing speed is largely learned sequences, so unfamiliar strings have to be practised specifically