I took the West Coast online test at 8:00 PM last night. It was very fast-paced; 50 questions, 15 seconds per question.
You had to read the question and category, type in your answer and hit “submit” before the 15 second time limit expired. If you hit “submit” early you were instantly transferred to the next question, so in a way it paid to hold off if you had the answer to give your brain a few extra seconds of rest.
The questions were all from different categories, so it was a little tough not to have the category primed in memory for series of questions.
2 or 3 of the questions I had no idea on, and a few more I guessed. It wasn’t clear from the instructions if there was a penalty for guessing incorrectly (as there is in actual Jeopardy).
Since the answers were all text entry, I’d assume they have one pass of automated scoring, and then some humans look results over for spelling irregularities that would count as a correct answer but the computers wouldn’t catch.
I’m very curious to see how I scored. They say it is random chance on who gets called for a follow-up interview, but I’m sure the “random selection” is from a subset of the highest scores.
