General Transcription MCQs

1. The patient should be drinking at lease one _________ of water each morning.

2. Which of the following is NOT an audio file?

3. What is verbatim transcription?

4. Which of the following is the correct order in which transcription takes place?

5. What are some problems with speech recognition technology?

6. Which of the following is NOT a type of transcription?

7. True or False? Live transcriptions are more accurate than offline transcriptions.

8. True of False? Speech recognition technology is usually more accurate than a professional transcriptionist.

9. Which of the following equipment is used for transcription?

10. Transcriptionists may be required to sign a _____________ to ensure client confidentiality.

11. True or false? Transcriptionists do not need to follow standard capitalization rules.

12. The medicine had a strange _______ on the patient's skin.

13. When transcribing verbatim, a transcriptionist should _______.

14. The application applies to androids and iphone. Transcribe correctly.

15. What is the most common piece of external hardware for a transcriptionist?

16. What is the most important attribute when it comes to your transcription?

17. When transcribing for a government agency, which of the following is important to remember?

18. Which of the following is a transcription software?

19. The patient had _______ of medications to take.

20. A common question to ask your client about before transcribing a recording is:

21. True or false? Documents transcribed with voice capturing software still need to be verified by a transcriptionist.

22. True or false? There is no difference between legal, medical, and general transcription.

23. The patients have the same medications _______ the board.

24. French abbreviations are different from english ones? Yes No

25. True or False? All transcriptions follow the same formatting.

26. True or false? A transcriptionist should not make note of emotional changes.

27. True or False? A medical transcriptionist sometimes has the task of editing documents created by Speech Recognition Technologies.

28. Which of the following is most common transcription software?

29. The proper abbreviation for average is:

30. What is the proper abbreviation for milligram?

31. True or false? You must get formal certification to become a general transcriptionist.

32. What does the common abbreviation YTD stand for?

33. Which of the following would be a circumstance that does NOT need transcription?

34. When should a transcriptionist use a contraction?

35. Which abbreviation means "quarter"?

36. True or false? Transcriptionists should use abbreviations whenever possible.

37. What is the proper abbreviation for association?

38. Should a transcriptionist modify the speaker's sentences to make sure everything makes sense?

39. What does SRT stand for?

40. Transcription service providers charge customers:

41. In the context of transcription, what does the term "minutes" refer to?

42. Which abbreviation means "cross reference"?

43. The proper abbreviation for table is:

44. What are the three main categories of transcription?

45. Choose the most likely sentence.

46. Which of the following is NOT a tag?

47. The patient can eat at ___________ she wants.

48. The patient enjoys eating popsicles_____ she does not usually have an appetite.

49. Which MP format is used to store files on the internet?

50. True of false? The following is correctly transcribed, 2a + 3a equals 5a. .

51. How should a transcriptionist present numerals?

52. What is the average time it takes for an audio file to be transcribed? Answer in a ratio of audio time to real time, as in x:y.

53. The proper abbreviation for affiliation is:

54. What is the industry standard for the time it takes to transcribe 15 minutes of audio?

55. When a customer asks for a clean verbatim he means;

56. What is the abbreviation for revenue per available room?

57. Water, whole grain, and vegetables_____ these are the things ideal for the patient's diet.

58. Asking for a _______ can be useful prior to transcribing.

59. Which of the following is correctly transcribed The client owe us five million dollars. The client owes us $5 million. The client owes us $5,000,000. The client owes us 5 million dollars.

60. In medical transcription, which of the following is NOT considered one of the four major reports?

61. Is the following correctly transcribed? He left London at twelve o'clock. Yes No

62. The speaker's name should be on the ______ of a transcription document.

63. Using Jefferson notation, what would (15) indicate?

64. Who is the originator (a.k.a. dictator) in the transcription process?

65. Which would be an appropriate abbreviated transcription of "Food should be administered every hour."

66. How should you type the following phrase: "First Quarter operating results were twenty-one point two million, an increase of fifty-two percent from first quarter last year and an increase of twenty-eight percent from the sequential quarter's operating results of eighteen million."

67. Which of the following do transcriptionists sometimes use to control digital media?

68. What symbol(s) is used to represent a word that was unable to be transcribed on the transcript?

69. Using Jefferson notation, what do brackets indicate?

70. Which of the following is commonly used for undecipherable words or phrases?

71. In medical transcription, what would using all capital letters indicate?

72. Which one of the following is not a Brazilian Real sign?

73. True of false? Currently TL is an ISO code for Turkish Lira.

74. True or False? Only a high school diploma is required to become a medical transcriptionist.