Reminder: Competition ends on May 15th

Be sure all test candidates have registered!

The Certiport 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office will close on May 15, 2009. Please complete the steps below to determine the finalists for your region.

1. Be sure all your students have registered for the competition. If they did not opt-in at the time of testing, go to www.officecompetition.com to see how to register. Students will not be automatically entered into the competition, registration is required.
2. Contact your Certiport representative or email officecompetition (at) certiport (dot) com before May 25, 2009.

Once the finalists have been determined and announced on June 2, 2009, Certiport will send a Student Participation Packet to each partner about the final testing, Pathways conference, registration, requirements, waivers, etc. Please work with your students to complete this packet before June 9, 2009.

Key Dates:

• May 15th – Competition registration ends
• May 25th – Contact Certiport about final students
• June 2nd – Certiport will email Student Participation Packets
• June 9th – Deadline for partners to submit (via email or fax) finalists’ Student Participation Packets

We look forward to continued communications on the final competition. Thank you for your participation and support this year!

Certiport Team
officecompetition (at) certiport (dot) com

Top Students This Week

Hello everyone,

We have an update to the best scores and times for the Certiport Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office!

As of this week, the top performing students are once again:

• Excel 2003 - Japan
• Word 2003 - Lebanon
• Excel 2007 - Mexico
• Word 2007 - Mexico

--Teresa

Weekly Rankings

Hi everyone! This week's top-ranking students represent the following countries:

• Excel 2003 - Japan
• Word 2003 - Japan
• Excel 2007 - Mexico
• Word 2007 - Mexico

Have a good week!

--Teresa

Certiport Partners

Hi everyone! In case you are in Greece, Japan, Singapore, or Latin America and you are not already utilizing your local web page, I want to make you aware of these great sites, tailored to the competition in your area.

The weekly country stats are unchanged. Have a good weekend!

--Teresa

A Great Resource for the Competition

Good morning everyone! (Well, it is morning at the moment that I am writing this in American Fork, Utah.)

I have some great news that can help you immensely in your preparation to win the competition! When I was a student (so very long ago), I used the computers at school for most of my papers and projects. I didn't have the latest version of Microsoft Office on my computer at home and I couldn't afford it.


But right now Microsoft is offering a special deal for students only! $59.95 for MS Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Outlook 2007, OneNote 2007, Groove 2007, Publisher 2007, Access 2007, InfoPath 2007, and Accounting Express 2008! I looked online myself to see what I would probably be paying for this set, and the cheapest price I found was $350. The original retail value was more... about $680 on the Microsoft website!


Having Microsoft Office on your personal computer could help you spend more time familiarizing yourself with the programs, and improve your test score! I believe the offer extends to different countries as well, but you'll need to check out the details to be sure. Visit http://www.officecompetition.com/ and click on the Ultimate Steal link on the left-hand side to buy Office Ultimate 2007 and find out if this offer is available in your country.





By the way, the top ranking countries have not changed in the past few weeks - still Japan, Lebanon, and Mexico.

Have a great week everyone!

--Teresa

This week's top-ranking students represent the following countries:

• Excel 2003 - Japan
• Word 2003 - Lebanon
• Excel 2007 - Mexico
• Word 2007 - Mexico

You may already have excellent training in Word and Excel, but if you would like some extra instruction straight from Microsoft, check out these free online lessons!

For some extra training in Word 2007, click here.
For extra help with Excel 2007, click here!

--Teresa

Weekly Rankings

This week's top-ranking students represent the following countries:

• Excel 2003 - Japan
• Word 2003 - Lebanon
• Excel 2007 - Mexico
• Word 2007 - Mexico

Have a good week!
--Teresa