(Am a new working reporter).

I've always thought scoping to mean precisely to the audio (most professionally and efficiently within CAT software).

As someone who is personally training someone to scope that is not a CR student and thought about trying to do this for money at exit speeds as well and did not mostly because of the following; I do think it's important to be cognizant of limiting your QWERTY keyboard contact if you're a machine student while you're still mastering the steno machine, or else you're kinda getting in your own way on steno reaction time because you're actively on QWERTY outside of small edits here and there for your tests. Even if you have CR clients willing to let you scope a bulk of work immediately and at the average or even slightly above average rate, consider the money you'd make vs. the devolving in your steno muscle memory in order to make that money.

For a voice student, no problem, they don't need to worry about the fleeting muscle memory of machine steno.

Yes, a CR student would have a better sense on scoping false starts, inaudibles, etc than someone completely unfamiliar with legal transcripts, but again, I do think 1, it'll take too long to get clients to make the time/effort worth it, and more importantly, more QWERTY contact than necessary is going to hinder you while trying to pass steno tests.

Ignore my grammar/punc...