PEG Accreditation Test 2022: Parts 1, 2 and 3
Join PEG for a single webinar or a series of three webinars on the PEG Accreditation Test (AT) 2022 as preparation for sitting the 2025 test or simply as a means of honing your knowledge and skills and earning valuable CPD hours. The purpose of this webinar is to demonstrate the way questions should be answered, what to do and what not to do, and to clarify how candidates can best prepare themselves for the next AT.
Three webinars cover the AT 2022 questions:
| Thursday, 22 May | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 1: In Part 1 of this series, the vehicle for achieving this purpose will be some general questions and those on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing in PEG’s 2022 test. |
| Thursday, 5 June | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 2: Part 2 will focus on the proofreading questions and the balance of the general questions. |
| Tuesday, 17 June | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 3: Part 3 will focus on the structural, content, stylistic and copy editing questions and also on the language/grammar question. |
Presenters: John Linnegar and Sally Hofmeyr
Platform: Online (Zoom meeting)
Prerequisites/foundational knowledge: Intermediate or advanced if you intend taking AT25 or AT26. Beginner upwards if this is merely a learning or an exploratory experience for you.
CPD hours: PEG members will earn CPD hours according to the criteria published on the PEG website. Attendees of the live
presentation will receive a certificate confirming their attendance and the duration of the webinar. Those who are
unable to attend the webinar live may submit their receipt as proof of having received the recording.
Pre-webinar materials: The test script of AT2022 will be emailed to registrants well before the first webinar. (Or well before Parts 2 and 3 should you register for one of these webinars only.)
About our presenters
John Linnegar has been a teacher and trainer, and a setter of more tests and examinations than he cares to remember, during a career spanning 40+ years. He has also acted as an external marker and moderator for examinations set by the Western Cape Department of Education and national examinations. Besides having been a copy-editor and proofreader for some time now, specialising in school and academic textbooks, non-fiction works and now journal articles, theses and dissertations, too, he has been a co-examiner of PEG’s first five Accreditation Tests and also one of the markers. The Accreditation Test falls four square within his PEG portfolio of Accreditation Coordinator. John has also published several texts on aspects of English and copy-editing and proofreading.
Sally Hofmeyr started out as an ornithologist and conservationist, but along the way she took up academic editing to help pay the bills and ultimately realised this was the career for her. For over 10 years, editing was her mainstay. From 2016 to 2025, Sally was a senior editor for Uni-edit, a small online academic editing company, and in that role she edited, provided training and feedback to editors and translators, and participated in other aspects of running the business. In 2025 she returned to her academic roots at the University of Cape Town, but she continues to edit occasionally and to be interested and involved in PEG and in helping editors to hone their skills. Sally has been a member of PEG since 2017. She qualified as an Accredited Text Editor (English) in 2020 and was a member of the Accreditation Test examiner team for three years, from 2021 to 2023.
About the webinar
The purpose of the webinars is to demonstrate how questions should be answered, what to do and what not to do, and to clarify how members can prepare themselves for the next accreditation test. It will be useful for those who intend participating to work through these questions beforehand, providing answers where possible, in order to derive maximum benefit from the webinar. Those who sat the 2022 test should bring their completed tests to the webinar/workshop to enable them to discover where they could have performed better.
Cost
Special offers on webinar + 2025 test combinations: PEG members
This year, if you register and pay for all THREE Accreditation Test 2022 webinars AND for the 2025 accreditation test in advance in one transaction, you will qualify for a 20% discount of R372: you pay R1Â 488 instead of R1 860.
This discount applies only to PEG members and only to an early-bird registration for the first of the series of three accreditation webinars.
Special offers on webinar combinations: PEG members
This year, if you register and pay for all THREE Accreditation Test 2022 webinars in advance in one transaction, you will qualify for a 20% discount of R177: you pay R708 instead of R885.
This discount applies only to PEG members and only to an early-bird registration for the first of the series of three accreditation webinars.
| Affiliation | Early-bird specials | Standard full fee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT 2022 Webinar plus 2025 test combination1 | AT 2022 Webinar combination: three webinars3 | Registration – one webinar5 | AT 2022 Webinar plus 2025 test combination2 | AT 2022 Webinar combination: three webinars4 | Registration – one webinar6 | |
| PEG members | R1 488 | R708 | R295 | R2 115 | R1 140 | R380 |
| Members of affiliated organisations7 | N/A | R1 485 | R495 | N/A | R1 740 | R580 |
| Non-affiliated members | N/A | R1 740 | R580 | N/A | R2 340 | R780 |
1Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 15 May [Special offer on webinar + test combination: R780 plus 3 × R236].
2Between Friday, 16 and 20 May [PEG members: R975 plus 3 × R380].
3Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 15 May [PEG Members: 80% of 3 × R295, Affiliates: 3 × R495, Non-affiliates: 3 × R580].
4Between 16 May and 20 May [PEG Members: 3 × R380, Affiliates: 3 × R580, Non-affiliates: 3 × R780].
5Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 15 May [Part 1]; before or on 29 May [Part 2]; before or on 12 June [Part 3].
6Between 16 and 20 May [Part 1]; between 30 May and 3 June [Part 2]; between 13 and 15 June [Part 3].
7Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa (ProJourn), Southern African Freelancers’ Association (SAFREA), South African Science Journalists’ Association (SASJA), the South African Translators’ Institute (SATI), Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA), Society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands (SENSE), Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd), Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT).
Take advantage of the early-bird special: save money and secure your spot at this webinar series by registering early!
Please register by completing and emailing the registration form to the webinar administrator.
Deadline for registrations: for Part 1 or the three-part special is 20 May. The registration deadline for Part 2 alone is 29 May. The registration deadline for Part 3 alone is 12 June.
PLEASE NOTE
We have also planned a second series of three webinars covering the 2023 Accreditation Test questions. The dates are:
| Tuesday, 1 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 1: In Part 1 of this series, the vehicle for achieving this purpose will be some general questions and those on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing in PEG’s 2022 test. |
| Thursday, 10 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 2: Part 2 will focus on the proofreading questions and the balance of the general questions. |
| Thursday, 17 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 3: Part 3 will focus on the structural, content, stylistic and copy editing questions and also on the language/grammar question. |
More details will be available closer to the scheduled dates.