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* Audition Questions *

#1 Post by kittenfeet » Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:48 am

Hi!
I haven't posted in about a year and a half or so and I think the board had a different host site. Yes, I am one of "those" people who come poking around here when I am gearing up for an audition. I took the road test in Vegas 2 years ago and passed the test and had the interview, but got a sad card. I went to NYC to audition last august and didnt pass the test so went back the next day and didnt pass again!! The tests were much harder than before.

I am here again because I am going to the road audition in Vegas again this year. I poked around and wasn't able to find an answer to this. I have noticed that a lot of the questions are from past episodes and I have been looking at transcripts but only have a limited amount of time. I was wondering if anyone knew if the questions lately have been from recently past seasons, like 2007, or farther back. I want to know what season I should be focusing on.

Thanks so much! :D

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#2 Post by slam » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:21 am

kittenfeet wrote:Hi!
I haven't posted in about a year and a half or so and I think the board had a different host site. Yes, I am one of "those" people who come poking around here when I am gearing up for an audition. I took the road test in Vegas 2 years ago and passed the test and had the interview, but got a sad card. I went to NYC to audition last august and didnt pass the test so went back the next day and didnt pass again!! The tests were much harder than before.

I am here again because I am going to the road audition in Vegas again this year. I poked around and wasn't able to find an answer to this. I have noticed that a lot of the questions are from past episodes and I have been looking at transcripts but only have a limited amount of time. I was wondering if anyone knew if the questions lately have been from recently past seasons, like 2007, or farther back. I want to know what season I should be focusing on.

Thanks so much! :D
There are certainly questions from recent shows. At my last test, there was one from the episode that had been aired the previous day! That being said, there might also be questions from further back that I didn't recognize. I did definitely recognize a handful from the past year's worth of episosdes.

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#3 Post by ulysses5019 » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:31 am

kittenfeet wrote:Hi!
I haven't posted in about a year and a half or so and I think the board had a different host site. Yes, I am one of "those" people who come poking around here when I am gearing up for an audition. I took the road test in Vegas 2 years ago and passed the test and had the interview, but got a sad card. I went to NYC to audition last august and didnt pass the test so went back the next day and didnt pass again!! The tests were much harder than before.

I am here again because I am going to the road audition in Vegas again this year. I poked around and wasn't able to find an answer to this. I have noticed that a lot of the questions are from past episodes and I have been looking at transcripts but only have a limited amount of time. I was wondering if anyone knew if the questions lately have been from recently past seasons, like 2007, or farther back. I want to know what season I should be focusing on.

Thanks so much! :D
Good luck. I'm glad that slam was able to provide some information.
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#4 Post by sunflower » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:36 am

slam wrote:
kittenfeet wrote:Hi!
I haven't posted in about a year and a half or so and I think the board had a different host site. Yes, I am one of "those" people who come poking around here when I am gearing up for an audition. I took the road test in Vegas 2 years ago and passed the test and had the interview, but got a sad card. I went to NYC to audition last august and didnt pass the test so went back the next day and didnt pass again!! The tests were much harder than before.

I am here again because I am going to the road audition in Vegas again this year. I poked around and wasn't able to find an answer to this. I have noticed that a lot of the questions are from past episodes and I have been looking at transcripts but only have a limited amount of time. I was wondering if anyone knew if the questions lately have been from recently past seasons, like 2007, or farther back. I want to know what season I should be focusing on.

Thanks so much! :D
There are certainly questions from recent shows. At my last test, there was one from the episode that had been aired the previous day! That being said, there might also be questions from further back that I didn't recognize. I did definitely recognize a handful from the past year's worth of episosdes.
I agree and also noticed that some of the questions from recent tape dates were in there...so when I was watching shows that aired, that were taped around the time I auditioned, I saw a lot of questions in those. That's something you really can't prepare for because you wouldn't have seen them, unless of course you were in the audience.

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#5 Post by frogman042 » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:42 am

I didn't know about this site (or any sites for that matter) when I took my test about a month and a half ago - I happened to be in the NY area for an extended time and as a lark saw that auditions were open - so I went in cold - having no prior WWTBAM audition data - I did have some experience by trying out for Jeopardy a couple of times a few years ago.

My initial reaction to the test was that most of the questions seemed to fall into the 4K to 8K level of difficulty. Harder then I initially expected. After getting the :D card telling me I was in the pool I started looking for info on what my odds were in actually being called. In doing so I found this site and have started going through the old transcripts. I've been hopping around among this past year and some from about 4 years ago - so far. So, to make a short story long, I did see a few (about 3 or 4) questions that were on my test (no fair to tell which ones) and they were 8k questions. Knowing what I know now, if I was prepping for the test I would concentrate on the 2k to 16K questions.

Good luck with your research and let us know how your testing/audition goes! Maybe we will get to meet on the same taping day!

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#6 Post by littlebeast13 » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:43 am

Nothing to add to the original post, but my posting of the BB directory seems to have lured two ghosts from the past out of hiding so far....

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#7 Post by kittenfeet » Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:04 pm

Thanks for all your help and suggestions everyone. I will make some study materials and try to get busy on the studying. I HAVE to be on this show at some point and I will not stop trying :D

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