Keyboarding- Building Speed & Accurracy

How do you calculate GWAM?     

• Divide number of minutes by number of words
• Multiply number of words by number of minutes
• Divide number of words by number  of minutes 
• Subtract number  of words from number of minutes

Terry typed 250 strokes, how many words did she type? 

•  25
• 250
•  50 
• 10

In the following sentence, calculate the number of words. The cow jumped over the moon.

•  4 
•  30 
• 6
•  29

A student has keyed 25 strokes in a minute, what was his/her GWAM? 

• 1
• 5
• 10
• 25

Susan has keyed 300 strokes in 5 minutes, what is her GWAM? 

• 60
• 30
• 12
• 300

How many strokes does it take to make a standard keyboarding word? 

• 10
• 5
• 3
• 7

What does GWAM stand for?  

•  Gross weight after measuring 
•  Gross words a minute 
• Great words a minute
• Gross weight a minute 

In the following sentence, calculate the number of strokes. The cow jumped over the moon. A.  5 B.  30 C.  6 D.  39

• 5
• 30
• 6
• 39

 Sam typed 100 words in 5 minutes. What is Sam’s GWAM? 

• 100
• 500
• 105
• 20