Court reporting students qualify for state exam

DOWNEY - Downey Career and Education Center students, Michelle Rosas, Shannon Dominessy, Jenny Yi and Emily Cantrell (not pictured) qualified recently to take the California Shorthand Reporters Examination to be held on Friday, March 6, in Ontario.

The examination is given three times a year and is the equivalent to a bar exam. It is a two-day test, with academic subjects tested on one day and machine dictation a different day.

To be eligible to take the state test, students must have completed 660 hours of academic training in English, legal studies, medical terminology, court procedures, California codes, and computer training.

Students also must pass all speed tests up to and including a 200 word per minute Qualifier test with four live readers. All speeds tests must be passed with 97.5% accuracy.