Elance proficiency test questions and elance test answers - pass with these elance admission test answers

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By lobobrandon

Elance test questions and answers - the importance of them

This hub is written to help you pass the elance test - Elance is one of the many online jobs. Listed here are the elance test questions as well as the answers you need to pass the elance proficiency test. The elance admission test answers that you find here come along with an explanation as it is the main reason behind the proficiency test. If you just go through the elance test without knowing the basics you’re bound to be cheated or you’ll give up because you’re not landing any jobs even though you’ve been trying for months on end. I write on elance and I love the site and I hated the way people misused the web to publish just a questionnaire along with the elance test answers – they took no trouble to see that you’ve understood the real meaning of the test. So let’s go through the list of questions as well as the basic points you need to know about elance. There is a small quiz at the side of the next paragraph below the pic so that you can test yourself before you actually proceed with the real elance test.

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Pass the elance test with ease and confidence
Pass the elance test with ease and confidence

Test yourself before you take the elance test

Getting your first job on elance?

If your planning on winning your first job on elance you'll need to know a couple of things. First and foremost before you use connects and write a proposal get your profile page ready and your portfolio stacked with atleast 2 samples. Getting started on elance is difficult and you may give up if you don't do it right. Imagine you were the client - would you hire someone who you knew nothing about? That's the reason your profile is so important. However, the profile is just one small factor.

The importance of having a paid plan on elance

This is one of the most important elance test questions as it’s commonly asked - that's because elance wants everyone to be a member. Basically, there are four types of accounts that you can have on elance; they are as listed below:

· Free account – A free account is one where you get just 10 connects a month. Connects are used to submit proposals on jobs. Depending on the price range of the job the number of connects varies. A job with a budget of up to $500 charges you 1 connect whereas $500 – 1000 is 2 connects and lastly $1000-5000 takes 3 connects.

· Individual membership – Individual members receive 30 connects a month and the balance connects at the end of each month if any, are rolled over to the next month unlike the free accounts.

· Small business – Small business can form teams of up to 5 members and they get 40 connects each month and have all the privileges of the individual membership.

· Large business – Teams of 40 members can be formed so you can get your whole offline business establishment to work with you online through elance.

Providers with a paid account have the privilege of using customer support via chat and also elance call; whereas, those with a free account are only eligible for the mailing support requests.

Keywords are very important when clients search for you; if you have a membership you can add a total of 10 keywords as opposed to 5 in the case of free accounts on elance. Also you get an opportunity to add many more tested skills to your public profile – 5 more, that’s really helpful in getting jobs.

This hub (article) will help you get all the answers you need to pass the elance proficiency test.  Click the picture to enlarge
This hub (article) will help you get all the answers you need to pass the elance proficiency test. Click the picture to enlarge

Question related to tested skills

Another popular elance admission test question is the one related to tested skills. Elance offers you an opportunity to test your skills and depending on the number you answer right you get a percentage that shows in a form of a bar graph near the skill on your profile. If you feature in the top 30% or more it is highlighted with a small graphic button.
The elance admission test answers have options that are mostly right as they want to teach you more about the site before you join. Therefore, here’s some more info to help you regarding tested skills –

  • You will need to wait 14 days before you can re-take a test and try to improve your score.
  • You can manually adjust your score if you’re not happy with your tested score. But, this shows in blue instead of orange so the clients can easily notice the difference.
  • All the skilled tests are timed – don’t worry I never found it an issue
  • If you score 60% and above on the tests it’s considered a pass else a fail.

Tested skills - when you feature in the top

This is how the tested skills look on elance - when you feature in the top
This is how the tested skills look on elance - when you feature in the top

What’s the importance of your elance profile?

Your elance profile is one of the most important parts of your account. Getting all the elance admission test answers and passing with flying colours will be of no use if you don’t build a great profile. Because only well written profiles stand a chance of winning a job – your proposal should speak marvels as well. Your profile is a place wherein you put information about yourself that would help your clients to get to know you better. You can also add samples in your portfolio which is a part of your profile itself.

Elance tracking tools

Getting all the elance test questions into your basket will be helpful if you know how to work once you get a job. Elance is a professional site and offers you and your clients many tools to track the progress of work. Hourly jobs have a tracker to keep track of time and it takes 5 pictures of your screen at random times during the hour and posts them into the workroom for your clients to check out. Status reports so that you can inform your clients as to how much per cent of the work you’ve completed. Elance prompts you to send status reports at least once a week.

Working on elance and getting started

You cannot access the workroom until and unless you’ve been awarded the job. You can’t even send your clients messages unless they begin a conversation with you. REMEMBER you don’t need to confirm any mode of payment when you begin your elance account – this is a famous question that you’ll need to answer to pass the elance test.

Violations in elance

One of the elance test answers that has all of the above as the right answer is the one related to violations, that’s because elance has to inform you about all the possible violations in one question itself. So, below is the list of violations:

  • Accepting any form of payment outside of elance
  • Completing a job below the minimum payment as per elance rules
  • Adding a sample to your portfolio – a sample that doesn’t belong to you and you don’t have the legal rights to use.
  • Adding contact details like personal website, phone number or even e-mail addresses outside the designated areas on your profile.

Conflicts – elance helps you in the following ways

  • If you’ve properly passed the elance admission test without just getting the elance admission test questions and blindly marking you may never come across major problems. But, problems are very likely and elance first gives both parties the chance to solve the dispute on their own.
  • If unsuccessful elance holds a conference between both parties via messages to try to come to a solution
  • A judgement is finally made by the 3rd party, but elance cannot force the clients to pay - hence you need to ensure that escrow is funded before you begin a job.

Elance escrow

Elance escrow is the saviour when it comes to online work. Escrow ensures that the funds are set aside for the work and released only when both parties are satisfied. Elance escrow protects both the contractor as well as client.

Payment activity

You can check out all the details as well as history of payment activity with your elance payment history menu. There is a tranctions options under the Manage tab where you get the full history. But, as per the elance test answers, your answer needs to be – “Get paid under the account activity tab”

Get advanced help and tips for success

You could use the following features to find all you need to know about elance:

  • The Elance University
  • Another great asset is the Water Cooler – the elance forums
  • Use the Elance blog to find out the latest happenings around elance.

Type of work supported on elance

Elance only offers fixed price jobs and hourly jobs at this moment and doesn’t offer free work opportunities as well as commission based jobs wherein contractors are paid a share in profits

The feedback system on elance

Passing the elance admission test and testing your skills is just one thing; but feedback and ratings from clients is the ultimate factor that helps you get more and more jobs; because, contractors won’t want to hire you if you’ve got a bad rating and negative reviews from previous clients. Reviews and feedback can’t be edited nor removed because if they could be removed people would remove all the negative reviews and keep just the good ones.

Now that you’ve got all the elance test questions answered, I hope you go all the way and answer all the elance admission test answers scoring a 100%. But, I’m sure you’ll pass after reading this hub. So go on, pass the elance test and come back to leave a comment to help others with their elance test.

Comments

WD Curry 111 profile image

WD Curry 111 Level 8 Commenter 5 months ago

This is the first I have heard of Elance. I haven't taken the test, but promise to check out this lead. I am impressed with your initiative and spirit of professionalism. Have you had any success with this pursuit?

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lobobrandon Hub Author 5 months ago

Hi WD Curry thanks for the comment :)

Yes I've had success. I'll send you my profile link by mail. That's the reason I'm not writing often here on HubPages. How do you like the pictures on this hub? I made them myself - it's the first time I made my own :D

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JT Walters 5 months ago

Hi D:

Just took the quiz three times and I fianlly got a 100. i would worry I would get turned upside down in owing money to this service before getting paid. Does it cost mroe then the average person makes. Because you write quite professionally and not all of us are up to your standards of excellence.

All My Best,

JT

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lobobrandon Hub Author 5 months ago

Hi JT Walters,

I never had a paid account until I got a few jobs. The individual account costs $10 a month. Only when I started getting a minimum of $50 a month I began a paid membership. I had a budget of $0 for it and I began from scratch. You could to. Give it a try, you've written so much you'll surely be great :) You could write BMR articles even though you're not good in the language - but who says you not? You've got loads of hubs to show clients as samples.. You'd do just fine.

But when you sign up use my referral link if possible as both get benefits. Check out this hub for the referral and more tips on elance

http://lobobrandon.hubpages.com/hub/Getting-starte

PS: - If you need any help at all don't hesitate to send me a private message

I write articles for websites as well as ezine and have a few product reviews in my hat as well :)

I've never written BMR but they don't need to be perfect so you could begin that way and with time you'll improve. But, like I said earlier your perfect already and there's nothing to worry about...

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lobobrandon Hub Author 5 months ago

I forgot to mention that elance also gives you links to a small paragraph along with each question so that you can learn about the site. So there's no way you could go wrong in the proficiency test. In my quiz I twisted the questions a bit especially the one where I say choose the one not applicable :) I twisted them so that anyone who does well here will surely pass the actual elance test.

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JT Walters 5 months ago

Hi lobobrandon,

I am actually on vacation right now reaidng my favorite writers which includes you. I remembered you were goign to be publilshing frequently this month so I have been vigilantly reading.

I will have to check it out after my vacation is over.

Thanks though and I may very well be contacting you privately.

All My Best My Friend,

JT

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WD Curry 111 Level 8 Commenter 5 months ago

The graphics are yours? They look good and tight. They are well balanced and the color combinations are fun and attractive. You are becoming a multi-media force.

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lobobrandon Hub Author 5 months ago

Hi JT I'll be writing a 60 hubs in 20 days challenge beginning Jan 7th :) as I'm busy with my exams now :(

I keep reading your hubs and other hubbers hubs though as reading takes just a few minutes :D

Thanks again

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lobobrandon Hub Author 5 months ago

Hi WD :) thanks for that :D

I just began and I hope to improve and I'll be creating my own pics from now on unless their product reviews.

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hafeez75 4 months ago

Very Nice and informative hub.thanks

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lobobrandon Hub Author 4 months ago

Hafeez thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found it informative :)

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carolyn a. ridge Level 2 Commenter 4 months ago

This is a great hub and very well written . Though I've never heard of this test, there is a very similiar one on the net -- that I tried a few months ago. I was not impressed! However, I will study this in depth, and check it out. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year !!

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lobobrandon Hub Author 4 months ago

Hi Carolyn thanks for the comment and I wish you and your family a very Happy New Year 2012 :)

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ElizaDoole Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Hi lobobrandon,

This is an excellent hub. I am also on Elance and have been for a while, and this is a great summary I am going to revisit this from time to time. You have saved me a lot of research. I'm also going to post a link to it on one of the forums, where someone was asking about the good writing sites.

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lobobrandon Hub Author 4 months ago

Hi Eliza thanks for the comment and forum post :). This is just for those who want a way to pass the original proficiency test. There's another one I wrote on Elance that will help you with your profile etc. I'm sure you won't need it but it would help :D

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Hendrika 4 months ago

I am trying to get into Elance. I have passed the test, but still struggle with my profile. Maybe you can make a Hub with some help on how to get your profile to work for you in finding a job.

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lobobrandon Hub Author 4 months ago

Hi Hendrika

Thanks for your interest. Surely I'll write one as soon as my exams are over. But for now all I can say is create some samples for your portfolio in niches you would like to write in. Use HP as samples as well if you have any hubs related to the type of job your bidding to. Will get a detailed profile hub out within a week.

Regards

Brandon

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RedElf Level 7 Commenter 4 months ago

Lots of interesting information here - I shall have to take a look at eLance.

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Hendrika 4 months ago

Thanks lobobrandon, looking forward to that Hub. I am not too sure, am I allowed to add links to my work on the net, or to the free platforms I use? I thought that may go through as contact information outside the given area.

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lobobrandon Hub Author 4 months ago

Hi RedElf thanks for the compliment and you'll surely do well. Nice to hear from a great hubber as you :D

Hendrika what do you mean by links of your work on the net? You could add your work on your hub pages profile or if your on elance just save it in a word doc and place it in your portfolio with a link at the top pointing to the published article (make sure its yours and has your name though if its published).

shahzad 2 months ago

hi

how are you

hope you are fine

I have passed the test, but still struggle with my profile and skills test

please help me how to get gob on elane and how to pass the skills test on elane

Tanks

Shahzad

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lobobrandon Hub Author 2 months ago

Hi Shahzad congrats on passing the skills test. I've written another article that will help you to fill up your profile so that possible clients are impressed.

Regarding the skills test I can't help you as there are plenty of tests there and they depend on your professionalism in that respective field. If you're good in a field you wouldn't have to worry about passing.

Here's the link to help you with your profile and getting a job - http://lobobrandon.hubpages.com/hub/Getting-starte

If you have any more questions feel free to ask

Regards

Brandon

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