Services

Reasons why you should come to
Kussad Institute of Court Reporting:

- Live dictation! (Real life in Court Reporting is live dictation).

- Structured classrooms with a positive learning environment.

- Honesty about the length of time required to complete the
court reporting program in a state with a CSR Exam.

- 100% employment rate for all our CSR graduates!

- Read back of your notes in a group setting. (You must
develop the ability to read back your notes under pressure as
you will be required to do in a deposition or courtroom).

- Camaraderie among your peers. (Court Reporting is a
skill-based program, which usually requires a group effort of
encouragement, motivation, and support from a group of court
reporting students and instructors).

- Proficiency statement exam once a week and then twice a
week one month prior to the deadline for the Texas CSR
Exam. (It takes an average student 4-8 months to pass mocks
-- a mock is 180 Lit., 200 Jury Charge, and 225 Q&A that must
be transcribed in one sitting and passed at 95% accuracy.

You might want to ask an Internet school how you are going to
acquire a proficiency statement. If they tell you you will need
to contact a court reporter and a tape will be sent to that court
reporter for you to take the exam, then you might want to
consider finding that person first and working out an
arrangement with them.

In residential schools, mock exams are usually geared toward
that particular state's certification requirements. It is unlikely
that a student will pass a proficiency exam the first time it is
given, unless it is very easy. The Texas CSR Exam and the
California CSR Exam are very challenging. The Texas CSR
Exam has a pass rate of 10% to 40%. If you are in Texas and
plan to work in Texas, you will need to be prepared to pass
the Texas CSR Exam.

- FYI -- Exams can be marked in both word count and syllabic
count, word count only, or syllabic count only. If you are
taking exams that are in syllabic density only (also standard
word count), then your literary and jury charge exams will
usually not have the proper number of words in them
compared to the Texas CSR/RPR Exam. However, usually a
syllabic only exam for a testimony will have many more words
than the Texas CSR/RPR Exam.

- Live multi-voice experiences.

- Students work with the Law students of the University of
Texas to prepare mock depositions. This enables our
students to practice being a court reporter before going out to
work in the real world.

- Director has 20 years' experience training Texas Court
Reporters. Instructors are currently working court reporters,
retired court reporters or teachers with degrees or certified
court reporting instructors by the National Court Reporters
Association.

- Our pass rate for the Texas CSR Exam for our graduates for
the past 10 years for first time test takers has been way above
the 10% to 40% average for the state. From 2002 to 2004,
our graduates had a 100% first-time pass rate.

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