CA FBLA Competitive Event Guidelines 212 2008 Edition

WORD PROCESSING II—INDIVIDUAL EVENT SCHOOL-SITE TESTING SECTION, STATE AND NATIONAL COMPETITION A high level of word processing skill is a necessity for employees in productive offices. This event recognizes FBLA members who demonstrate that they have acquired word processing proficiency beyond entry level. ELIGIBILITY A participant may not have previously competed in this event or Word Processing II at the national level. Section: Each local chapter may enter three (3) members. State: The top five (5) winners from section competition will represent their section at

the State Leadership Conference National: The first place and second place winner in state competition will represent

California at the National Leadership Conference. Advisers and participants should refer to the latest edition of the FBLA Chapter Management Handbook for national competitive event guidelines.

OVERVIEW This event consists of two (2) parts: an objective test and a school-site production test. Participants are required to complete both parts. A one (1) hour objective test will be administered based on the Objective Test Competencies. The score received on this portion of the event will constitute 15 percent of the final event score. One (1) hour will be given for the production test at the local school site. SCHOOL SITE PRODUCTION TEST PROCEDURE (Section and State) See Event Regulations section in front of document for complete Skill Event regulations.

The Competitive Events Facilitator will coordinate all school-site testing and is responsible for the mailing of all tests.

The School Site Testing Form—both section and state—can be found online at cafbla.org or at the end of this document. The conference registration packet will contain specific information and will also contain the testing form.

The production portion of this event is administered prior to the Section and State Conference.

One (1) hour will be allowed for the production test at the school site. Additional time will be allowed for general directions, equipment set up, and warm-up. Problems are weighted according to difficulty and may be completed in any order.

The following reference materials are allowed at the test site: dictionaries, the Standards of Mailability and Format Guide.

Voice recognition software may be used where appropriate. The local chapter must provide the software.

Documents produced for this event must be prepared by the FBLA competitors, without help from the adviser or any other person.

Calculators are not allowed during the testing time.

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CONFERENCE ON-SITE OBJECTIVE TEST PROCEDURE (Section and State) All participants must report at the event time listed in the program. If a participant

arrives after the testing administrator has begun giving event instructions, he/she will not be admitted to the testing area.

All students from the school must take this test at the same time. Participants must show photo identification at the time the written test event starts or

he/she will not be allowed to compete. A faxed copy is not acceptable. Participants must adhere to the FBLA Conference Dress Code when taking the written

test or he/she will not be admitted to the testing area. The written test must be taken in order to place in this event.

JUDGING Judging of the skill test will be based on printed copy. A panel of judges will evaluate the documents. All decisions of the judges are final. Ties will be broken based on the scores associated with the objective test portion of the event. Objective Test Competencies

document formatting rules and standards grammar, punctuation, spelling, and proofreading basic keyboarding terminology and concepts related application knowledge

Production Competencies production of all types of business forms letters memorandums tables reports statistical reports materials from rough draft and unarranged copy

NBEA Standards Reinforced by Event Communication: foundations, technological Information Technology: computer architecture, operating systems, environment and

utilities, input technology, application software Career Cluster: Business, Management and Administration; Information Technology; Marketing, Sales and Service