<p>Over time, my handwriting has morphed into some sort of hen-scratched, half-capital, half-lower-case, some-cursive, some-printed, discombobulated, doctor-like writing. It's really sad. I make all of my Rs, Bs, Qs and As capitalized (but smaller when they're supposed to be lower-case). Will points be deducted because I'm being "grammatically incorrect" by sticking capital letters in the middle of a sentence?</p>
<p>Lol! Good description - it quacked me up. Regarding your question, I don't know. If it looks THAT bad and is hard to read, you might be in some trouble; if it's an easy read, you will be better off. </p>
<p>Idea: To make the grades more fair, they should let us type our essays on computers! That would be killer, dude! Kalabunga!</p>
<p>I write in only caps. In my experience, it's penalized on SAT but not SAT</p>
<p>"I write in only caps. In my experience, it's penalized on SAT but not SAT"</p>
<p>Penalized on the SAT but not the SAT? lol Trust me, I'm not one to throw stones, but just so that I know if I have to go back and change all my letters: Do you mean that it is "penalized on ACT but not SAT" or "penalized on SAT but not ACT"? Thank you!</p>
<p>Interestingly, last year someone at CollegeBoard defined "legible" (they require legibility" as "in English" in response to my question about the definition for the SAT.</p>
<p>haha, my bad. Penalized on SAT but not ACT ;)</p>
<p>Suggestion: Learn Wingdings. You might be able to fool your way to a twelve!</p>
<p>LOL. I'll have to try that, but it looks more like hieroglyphics to me!</p>
<p>writting caps takes much more time and effort imo. :(</p>
<p>"writting caps takes much more time and effort imo. "</p>
<p>Not when you write so quickly that it is illegible. :) lmao</p>
<p>Cursive, folks, cursive. It's a beautiful thing. </p>
<p>Anyway, my AP World teacher told me that they'd done studies with the people who score the tests, and that a neatly written essay was scored higher than the exact same essay written messily. </p>
<p>Then again, my cursive is completely illegible. Sometimes I add superfluous i's and e's by accident if I'm not really concentrating, which then have to be awkwardly crossed out or merged with the nearest letter. Still, I've managed pretty good scores on AP exams an the SAT essay. </p>
<p>I don't know about the ACT essay, because they STILL HAVEN'T SCORED MY TEST. Not that I'm angry about that, or anything.</p>