PEG ATE 2026: Part 1
PEG Accreditation Test 2024: Parts 1, 2 and 3
Join PEG for a single webinar or a series of three webinars on the PEG Accreditation Test (AT) 2024 as preparation for sitting the 2026 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 the ways in which candidates can best prepare themselves for the next AT.
Three webinars cover the AT 2024 questions:
| Wednesday, 15 July 2026 | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 1: In Part 1 of this series, the vehicle for achieving this purpose will be the language/ grammar question, an editing question (2A) – structural, stylistic and copy editing – and one general question (4A). |
| Tuesday, 28 July 2026 | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 2: Part 2 will focus on an editing question (2B) – structural, stylistic and copy editing – proofreading question (3B), and one general question (4B). |
| Tuesday, 11 August 2026 | 18:00–21:00 (CAT) | Part 3: Part 2 will focus on an editing question (2C) – structural, stylistic and copy editing – proofreading question (3A), and the final general question (4C). |
More details of the content will be available once we distribute the pre-reading for the webinars (ie the AT 2024 script) to those who register.
Presenters: John Linnegar and Ricky Woods
Platform: Online (Zoom)
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Prerequisites/foundational knowledge: Intermediate or advanced if you intend taking AT26 or AT27. Beginner upwards if this is merely a learning or an exploratory experience for you.
CPD hours: The duration of each webinar in this series is three 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 AT2024 will be emailed to registrants well before the first webinar. (Or well before Part 2 and/or 3 should you register for one of these webinars only.)
Recording and PowerPoint slides: Everyone who registers for a webinar will receive a recording of the event and copies of the PowerPoint slides (if applicable) afterwards.
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 2024 test should bring their completed tests to the webinar/workshop to enable them to discover where they could have performed better.
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. He has been a copy-editor and proofreader for some time now, specialising in school and academic textbooks, non-fiction works and, more recently, journal articles, theses and dissertations, too. He researched and compiled PEG’s Accreditation Test curriculum, launched the first-ever PEG Accreditation Test in 2020, and has been a co-examiner of PEG’s first six Accreditation Tests and also one of the markers. John has also published several textbooks on aspects of English and copy-editing and proofreading.
Ricky Woods qualified as an Accredited Text Editor (English) in 2021 and has been a member of the Accreditation Test examiner team for three years now, from 2023 to 2026, as both proofreader and examiner/marker. (She also wrote the Accreditation test twice – the first time ‘for practice’). Now retired, she was a high school English teacher for close on 40 years. She has spent the past 15 of them focusing more deliberately on upskilling for her ‘new’ career. This entailed numerous webinars, John’s online grammar course, editing courses run by UP and UCT and a PEG mentorship. She works mostly in academic editing, but has branched into school textbooks, non-fiction and even a little fiction, but she prefers to read literature than to edit it.
Cost
Special offers on webinar + 2026 test combinations: PEG members
This year, if you register and pay for all THREE Accreditation Test 2024 webinars AND for the 2026 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 2024 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 2024 Webinar plus 2026 test combination1 | AT 2024 Webinar combination: three webinars2 | Registration – one webinar3 | AT 2024 Webinar plus 2026 test combination4 | AT 2024 Webinar combination: three webinars5 | Registration – one webinar6 | |
| PEG members | R1 488 | R708 | R295 | R2 115 | R1 140 | R380 |
| Members of affiliate organisations7 | N/A | R1 200 | R400 | N/A | R1 500 | R500 |
| Non-affiliated members | N/A | R1 500 | R500 | N/A | R1 800 | R600 |
1Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 8 July [Special offer on webinar + test combination: R780 plus 3 × R236].
2Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 8 July [PEG Members: 80% of 3 × R295, Affiliates: 3 × R400, Non-affiliates: 3 × R500].
3Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 8 July [Part 1]; before or on 18 July [Part 2]; before or on 1 August [Part 3].
4Between 9 and 14 July [PEG members: R975 plus 3 × R380].
5Between 9 and 14 July [PEG Members: 3 × R380, Affiliates: 3 × R500, Non-affiliates: 3 × R600].
6Between 9 and 14 July [Part 1]; between 18 and 27 July [Part 2]; between 2 and 10 August [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 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 8 July. The registration deadline for Part 2 alone is 18 July. The registration deadline for Part 3 alone is 1 August.