Accreditation Test preparation: AT2023 session 1
PEG Accreditation Test 2023: Parts 1, 2 and 3
Join PEG for a single webinar or a series of three webinars on the PEG Accreditation Test (AT) 2023 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 2023 questions:
| Tuesday, 1 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 1: In Part 1 of this series, the vehicles for achieving this purpose will be one question on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing, one proofreading question and one general question, in PEG’s 2023 test. |
| Thursday, 10 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 2: Part 2 will focus on the second proofreading question, one of the editing questions on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing and one general question in PEG’s 2023 test. |
| Thursday, 17 July | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 3: Part 3 will focus on the language/grammar question, the final structural, content, stylistic and copy editing question and also on final general question in PEG’s 2023 test. |
More details of the content will be made available once we distribute the relevant pre-reading for the webinars (ie
the AT 2023 script) to those who register.
Presenters: John Linnegar and Sally Hofmeyr
Platform: Online (Zoom meeting)
Level: Beginner/Introductory
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 relevant questions of the test script of AT2023 will be emailed to
registrants well before each of the three webinars. (Or well before Part 1, 2 or 3 should you register for one of
these webinars only.)
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 2023 test should bring their completed tests to the
webinar/workshop to enable them to discover where they could have performed better.
About our facilitators
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 nationalexaminations. 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.
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 2023 Webinar plus 2025 test combination1 | AT 2023 Webinar combination: three webinars3 | Registration – one webinar5 | AT 2023 Webinar plus 2025 test combination2 | AT 2023 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 23 June [Special offer on webinar + test combination: R780 plus 3 × R236].
2Between 24 and 29 June [PEG members: R975 plus 3 × R380].
3Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 23 June [PEG Members: 80% of 3 × R295, Affiliates: 3 × R495, Non-affiliates: 3 × R580].
4Between Monday 24 June and 29 June [PEG Members: 3 × R380, Affiliates: 3 × R580, Non-affiliates: 3 × R780].
5Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 23 June [Part 1]; before or on 3 July [Part 2]; before or on 10 July [Part 3].
6Between 24 June and 29 June [Part 1]; between 4 July and 8 July [Part 2]; between 11 and 15 July [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.
Deadlines for registrations:
- for Part 1 or the entire three-part special is 29 June.
- for Part 2 alone is 8 July.
- for Part 3 alone is 15 July.