Ahh, done with TODAY'S testing.

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Me: "Okay, pop out the floppy disk.."

Random Fat Woman: "This button?"
(* Random Fat Woman hits RESET *)

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Dialog Box says: "Use the Find Files or Folders command (Search in Windows 2000) to find the file C:\OPAC\BlahBlah.txt

Random Bald Guy: "Hmm.. I'm confused."
Me: "Go to the Start menu, click Find."
Random Bald Guy: "Uhh.. Start.. and then what?"
Me: "Find." (I point to it.. he could NOT have missed it.)

(A little while later, I come back to him and notice he's still in the same question as before, without the Find dialog up. He's searching through the rest of the start menu, frantic in his quest to find the Find Files or Folders command.)

Me: "...It's right there, go back to Find, where I showed you."
Random Bald guy: "But the question says to use Find Files or Folders, that's just Find."
Me: "Yeah. See that?" (I point to the Files or Folders command that branches off of the Find command.. plainly visible)
Random Bald Guy: "Geez, I'm stupid."

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Dialog Box: "Copy the folder C:\OPAC\TestFolder to your floppy."

Random Fat Woman (again): "How do I do this?"
Me: "Have you ever worked with files before?"
Random Fat Woman (again) "Well, when I applied I said I just have basic computer knowledge, and the receptionist said that's OK"

(* She thinks she has basic computer skills, yet she can't copy a folder. I'm willing to bet that most people think they're uber-1337 before they take (and fail) this basic computer knowledge test. *)

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Dialog Box: "Open notepad."

(* I notice that a Random Woman opened Internet Explorer. *)

Random Woman: "I'm confused."

(* It's a 2-word command, it's NOT DIFFICULT. *)

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There's plenty more. Repeats of the above "I can take the test twice???? OMG" and the inability to hit "Done" when they're done again.

I think that the highest Win98 test score that day was a 60%. Lowest was like 5%.

One more day.. tommorrow at 4:00.