NCRA skills tests are stenotype, which this site cannot pretend to be
The National Court Reporters Association registers reporters through skills tests that historically include literary at 180 words per minute, jury charge at 200, and testimony (Q&A) at 225, taken on a stenotype machine with realtime theory, not on a QWERTY keyboard. India Typing Test does not have a steno machine, does not grade briefs, and does not play dictation audio. This card is a five-minute legal-English QWERTY rehearsal with a high accuracy gate and no WPM pass mark, because a 225 QWERTY target would be a circus number for almost every visitor.
If you are enrolled in a court reporting program, your speedbuilding happens on a writer, with tapes, and with theory. Use this page only as a side drill for English legal vocabulary, caption-like lines, and eyes-on-text discipline. If you came here because a search said “225 WPM typing test,” you were looking for stenography. A computer keyboard test at 80 WPM will not substitute for RPR skills.
What working reporters actually type after they pass
Realtime reporters write testimony, then produce transcripts with software, scoping, and proofing. The job is Latin-heavy names, medical terms in PI cases, and overlapping speakers. QWERTY speed helps when you scope or edit. It does not replace steno speed. This passage pack is legal running matter so the words look like work product, not like a children’s typing game.
Certification bodies besides NCRA exist (state CSRs, NVRA, and others). Each has its own speeds and realtime rules. This page is not affiliated with NCRA and does not use their copyrighted takes. Your program’s speed tapes remain the real practice set.
Why there is no 225 WPM gate on a QWERTY website
Stenotype writes chords. QWERTY writes letters. Comparing the two WPM numbers is how people get hurt. We refuse to put a 225 gate on this card. Accuracy is set high (96 percent) so you treat legal spelling as the point. Duration is five minutes of visible text, which is easier than live testimony at 225 because you can see the words. That ease is another reason this is not an RPR mock.
If you want a hard QWERTY workout, use the ordinary typing-test quote mode or a longer legal-transcription card on this site. Those still will not make you a reporter. They may make scoping less painful. Be honest on forums: do not claim an India Typing Test score as an NCRA speed.
Literary, jury charge, and Q&A are three different animals
Literary is prepared prose. Jury charge is patterned legal instruction. Q&A is two voices, interruptions, and exhibits. This page is closest to literary because it shows a passage. It is not two-voice dictation. It will not train you to write “Q.” and “A.” against overlapping speech. For that you need audio and a writer.
Students sometimes use QWERTY sites when their writer is in the shop. That is a maintenance day, not a speed day. Keep theory warm with briefs on paper if you must. Do not let a comfortable 70 WPM QWERTY score convince you that 180 literary on steno is “basically done.”
How a reporting student might use this card without lying to themselves
Once a week, not daily: type a legal passage for five minutes to keep English spelling sharp, especially party names and case captions you keep misspelling in transcripts. Build a custom list of your program’s trouble words. Then go back to the writer. If QWERTY practice crowds out speed tapes, it is harming you.
Working scopists and proofers who are not trying to certify as reporters can use this card more often. Their job is QWERTY. Their accuracy bar is the transcript, not an NCRA skills sheet. Know which profession you are in before you copy a 225 WPM meme onto a resume.
State CSR versus NCRA RPR
Some US states still run their own court reporter certification with different speeds or realtime requirements. Passing one does not always waive the other. This website has no state CSR simulator either. It has English legal text and a clock. Official boards publish candidate handbooks. Those handbooks outrank every paragraph here.
If your goal is CART, captioning, or broadcast captioning, NCRA and other bodies have separate paths. The closed-captioning card on this site scores typing of short lines, not steno captioning. Wrong tool, wrong machine. Pick the card that matches the machine you will be tested on.
Ethics: do not sell this page as exam prep for RPR
Schools that tell students a QWERTY typing site will get them to 225 are not doing them a favour. Share this page as vocabulary and editing practice. Send students to NCRA’s own skills-test descriptions for the real thing. India Typing Test will not issue a reporter certificate and will not sit as a practice vendor for steno.
If you need a 40 WPM county clerk certificate, you are in the wrong building — use the CalCareers card. If you need federal GS clerical self-certification, use the OPM card. Court reporting is a different trade with a different machine.