<p>Is there a testing procedure rule that test takers are to be notified 5 minutes prior to the end of the section they are working on by the proctor? Or did PR have me depend on a nasty little habit?</p>
<p>Our proctor told us she couldn't tell us when five minutes was almost over, which I thought was complete BS. We didn't have a clock in our room either, but at least I had a watch. I feel bad for everyone that didn't.</p>
<p>fdkjfdsjfdkls. I am just royally screwed...I have no conclusion on my essay. My essays are typically 10-12 and they are what holds my writing score together. I'm just royally angry.</p>
<p>That happened to me also...I wrote the first sentence of my conclusion, and it was definitely not a good sentence to end on. It sucks because the essay is the first section so you never know</p>
<p>i was in that situation in may. i went out yesterday and bought a digital watch. its pretty nice actually.</p>
<p>sucks our proctor only told us when we had one minute left, talk about worthless.</p>
<p>^I would have been thrilled if she told me I had one minute left...my conclusion was in my head...but not on paper. Now the college board essay graders think I don't know *** conclusions are.</p>
<p>Then I like freaked out the entire duration of the desk because I couldn't see the clock from the angle I was at since the flag blocked it...</p>
<p>Oh and I forgot to bubble in section 5 in section 5...I did it in 6...and spent section 7 re doing my bubbles, thank goodness I realized during the long writing section. So I was a mess...and my first SAT experience wasn't so hot.</p>
<p>my proctor told us when there were 2 minutes left so i only had two sentences for my conclusion, which sucked!</p>
<p>Our proctor told when we had 10 and 5 minutes left, plus there was a clock I looked at religiously.</p>
<p>For may sat I had no conclusion and I got a 10.</p>
<p>My proctor told us when 5 min and 1 min were coming.</p>
<p>What I really want to know is if there is a steadfast rule about warnings? Is it something required, is it something I can moan and complain to collegeboard about?</p>
<p>To everyone who is worried about not having a conclusion for their essay...not to worry, I was similarly freaked out when I did not have time to write any conclusion at all. Not even a sentence, all I had time for was an intro and two bodys and that was all. And I got an 11. Moral of the story: it will all be okay.</p>
<p>I hope so...I have an intro, two long bodies, and a sentence fragment that I spazzed out and managed to write like 5 words of as the proctor said, PENCILS DOWN! I SAID PENCILS DOWN! I'm totally feeling that 10+.</p>
<p>simple answer to this: WEAR A WATCH!</p>
<p>There is no rule requiring proctors give n-min. time warnings.
Why don't we all gang up on the CB and send emails !STRONGLY! suggesting 5 min. rule be put into effect.
Want to post here if you've done so?
Here's my check mark:</p>
<p>gcf101 -- requested time warnings.</p>
<p>From my students' and my experience, it might help if you ask proctors nicely before the beginning of the test whether they would make time announcements. Of course, there is no guarantee they would oblige and remember.</p>
<p>I took June 3rd SAT II's, and proctors were giving remaining 30-, 10-, and 5-min. warnings. Unfortunately it's rather an exception: this was happening in a testing center located in a private school.</p>
<p>Yes, time warnings would be nice, but not all proctors provide them, as is evident from the previous posts. One simple solution would be to ALWAYS wear a digital watch to the exam.</p>
<p>I think it would be nice to have 10- 5- and 1- minute warnings. The proctor at our own school is nice enough to give any sort of warning if we ask her, but the proctor at another school only gives 30-minute warnings, which is a pretty pointless time warning, IMO.</p>
<p>The infamous clock rule is that if there is no clock in the room, the proctor is supposed to give a 5-minute warning before the end of the section, just as they are supposed to announce the time in 20 minute increments for each hour of the SAT Subject Tests.
But as many have noted, don't count on it. What, are you going to retake the test because they didn't give you a warning?
Get a watch, and use it to plan your pacing. Write down the start and stop time for each section at the top of your test booklet, and check your watch every couple of pages; be proactive in choosing which questions to do. Then, when you hear "5 minutes remain", you won't freak out and be surprised. Of course, don't spend the whole time looking at your watch, either. 0 points for that.
The other bonus is that if the proctor shorts you on the time by mistake, you can politely point it out. If you don't have a watch, you'll never know.
The coolest are those count-up and count-down timers...you set it to start and can see how far you are along out of 25 minutes. Or you can see how close you are to 0:00 if you set it to count-down mode.</p>