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Every answer on the tests is somewhere on the site. This page shows you where.

Start with the General test, then do your department’s test. Click a section, find each item below, then move on.

01The LadderGo there ↗
  • How many checkpoints this year, and what day they close
  • How many pages the book is
  • What to check first when the event for your spread hasn’t happened yet
  • What the loading screen tip says every late spread had in common
  • What’s different about the first checkpoint on Oct 29
  • How many passes Design owes at a normal checkpoint, and how many everyone else owes
04The Hand-InGo there ↗
  • The sentence about Discord, Drive, and Walsworth
  • The only thing that counts as a signature
  • How to name a V1 file
  • Why Discord won’t take a 40 MB PDF
  • The size, dpi, and color mode a new spread starts with
  • What happens to a V1 that comes back with zero notes
05The BookGo there ↗
  • How much space stays clear on each side of the spine
06What Done Looks LikeGo there ↗
  • How big the main photo has to be
  • How names are written in a caption
  • How many words of body copy, and what has to be in it
07Sign The ReleaseGo there ↗
  • What happens to your CRED until the form and both tests are done
13The MonthGo there ↗
  • Why every checkpoint is on a Thursday
  • The order every spread follows
  • The three stages, in order
  • Whether a V1 counts on checkpoint Thursday
  • When you can hand off a spread, and who decides who finishes it
  • How many spreads you can work on at once
  • What happens at the Wednesday standup, minute by minute
  • What goes in your daily progress report
14The Post-MortemGo there ↗
  • Which of the three questions is the most important one
15The GradeGo there ↗
  • How your grade splits between production, CRED, and role
  • The three things everything you turn in is graded on
  • What to do when your spread misses the checkpoint, and what it costs
  • Which checkpoint a Power Pass can’t be used on, and when you use one
  • Which part of your grade covers letting a person down, and which covers missing a weekly task
  • The lowest your CRED can go in a month
  • What skipping the monthly self-assessment costs
16The FeedGo there ↗
  • What happens when a post uses a student’s full name
19Cover EveryoneGo there ↗
  • The one rule this section is built on
20Dojo-kunGo there ↗
  • What to do when Dojo-kun scores you wrong

Found everything?

Test yourself. The practice test shows you the answer after every question.

General Practice ↗
08Content, Social & MarketingGo there ↗
  • The three days Content posts every week
  • The three parts of every Tuesday Weekly Update
  • What it means when a Weekly Update takes more than one class period
  • What rotates on Thursdays, and what rotates on Fridays
  • What a CENTAURUS CIRCUIT post is, and how to tell if it has a theme
  • How the BUY THE YEARBOOK ad should feel
  • Where a post moves when there’s no school that day
  • What gets posted when a post day lands on a holiday
  • When break posts are due, why they’re due a week early, and the three dates
  • The one question your chair asks Content every day
  • What Content owns besides the feed, and what’s on their list of things to turn in
16The FeedGo there ↗
  • The two automatic penalties
  • Whether a last name on a jersey breaks the name rule
  • How names go in captions, tags, and credits, including usernames
  • What happens when Sensei gives notes on a post
  • The size for feed posts and Reels, and which shape works better
  • Where faces and text go in a vertical video, and what covers the bottom of the screen
  • What to do with the safe zone overlay before you export
  • When videos get subtitles, and which app you edit them in
  • The part of a caption the site says matters most
  • What a pile of hashtags does
17The 4th Period PassGo there ↗
  • Where Content is during 4th period

Found everything?

Test yourself. The practice test shows you the answer after every question.

Content Practice ↗
03The PipelineGo there ↗
  • The file format every shoot uses, and why
  • How a shoot folder is named
  • How Lightroom imports photos
  • Who erases the card, and when
  • How the two Drive folders are shared
  • Where the Drive link goes after you upload
  • How to pick your best photos from 800 quickly
  • How to fix the same problem in 200 photos at once
04The Hand-InGo there ↗
  • Why a photo saved from a parent’s Instagram prints blurry
05The BookGo there ↗
  • When to ask a business for its logo as a vector file
09Outreach + PhotoGo there ↗
  • What happens to an event in the next 14 days that has no photographer
  • The one question your chair asks Outreach every day
  • How often the yearbook inbox gets cleared
  • What Outreach owns besides the cameras and the calendar
12The ToolkitGo there ↗
  • The channel where ASB news gets posted
  • Why the Nikon Z5 is the wrong camera for basketball
17The 4th Period PassGo there ↗
  • Where Outreach is during 4th period, the two exceptions, and how many logged shoots you owe each week
  • The first thing you do at a classroom door, and what to do if the teacher says no
  • What you never photograph without checking everything in the frame
  • What you have to do when 4th period ends
  • Why the 4th Period Pass has the most rules
19Cover EveryoneGo there ↗
  • What Outreach does about students who aren’t in the book yet
CSCamera SchoolGo there ↗
  • The lightest camera for walking into a classroom
  • Which camera to use for an event that only happens once, like graduation
  • The first thing you do when you take a lens off
  • How a camera gets checked out of the gear cage
  • What to do when you damage gear, and what it costs

Found everything?

Test yourself. The practice test shows you the answer after every question.

Outreach + Photo Practice ↗
01The LadderGo there ↗
  • What Design spends its passes on at the Mar 18 checkpoint
02The CalendarGo there ↗
  • Why your plan is Outreach’s photo list
  • Where the guides layer goes while you work, and why
04The Hand-InGo there ↗
  • The three PDFs that go in one #yb-proofs thread
  • How to check the color mode in a new Photoshop document
  • How to export a V1 PDF from Photoshop
  • The main file that goes in your Drive folder
  • What goes in the sources/ folder
  • The four ways a spread comes in wrong
  • Why your PDF has pink dashes across it
  • Why photo-heavy spreads get built in Photoshop, not Canva
  • Walsworth’s job in the process
05The BookGo there ↗
  • The pixel size for a full-page photo that runs off the edges
  • The smallest size for four-color text
  • How far bleed goes past the trim
  • The rich black color mix
  • What typing 300 into the DPI box does
  • Line-art resolution
  • What you can’t give Walsworth
  • The free test for dark text
  • How headline text gets into Walsworth
10Design, Layout & ProofingGo there ↗
  • The one question your chair asks Design every day
  • What every designer does before each checkpoint, besides their own spreads
  • Why problems in this department stay quiet
  • What goes in a plan
11The FloorGo there ↗
  • The order a chair follows when someone isn’t doing their work
12The ToolkitGo there ↗
  • Why the text goes missing when a classmate opens your .psd
13The MonthGo there ↗
  • What your chair checks when they sign a plan, and what Sensei checks
  • What happens if you want to change a signed plan
  • What you’re graded on when you finish someone else’s spread in a handoff

Found everything?

Test yourself. The practice test shows you the answer after every question.

Design Practice ↗