<p>How touchy is it? From what i've read, it seems to be pretty accurate, but.. Here's the situation. </p>
<p>Last question on the test, about 5 secs remaining and I see the answer. I quickly but thoroughly erase the previous answer I put down, and the second my pencil hits the paper to fill in the new oval: "Pencils down. Time is up."</p>
<p>I did manage to get around half the oval filled, and the half that was filled was very dark. Do you think the scantron (or whatever the machine is called) will pick it up correctly?</p>
<p>Maybe I should have just finished filling it in, but I didn't want to take the chance of a voided score sheet because of it.</p>
<p>Depending who you have as your supervisor during the test, some don't care as much if you take 2-3 seconds to complete an answers. I seriously hate when they threaten to cancel my scores just because I'm finishing one problem.</p>
<p>I expect the scanner will pick up your answer correctly. I have known them to pick up half-assed marks pretty reliably, and they are sensitive to different mark intensities so they can tell the difference between a pretty good erasure and half a real mark.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks.. that gives me a little piece of mind on that one. I think I did the worst on the Reading, the only subject I barely finished on time and where the problem oval was, so one more correct answer in my favor should help on that.</p>
<p>couldn't you have just finished the filling while on another section? asa long as you just finished an oval it doesn't seem like the procter would even have time to notice... unless you take minutes to fill in ovals...</p>
<p>Vegan, you could certainly get away with that if the proctor isn't standing right next to you and you're supposed to be on a different multiple-choice test. But if you've moved on to the writing, it would be risky to turn back to the multiple-choice page of your answer folder and start filling in ovals.</p>
<p>what I do is I try to do all the questions and the ones that I dont know I keep blank...and at the very end of the test when we are supposed to do the 10 questions about the environment and parents education level...I go back and randomly bubble things in.</p>
<p>I would've filled the bubble in all the way....seriously, on the ACT and SAT, every question counts; if you knew the answer or had an idea, you should've filled in the bubble</p>
<p>It will probably pick it up, don't worry about it too much, nothing you can change now I guess...</p>
<p>My proctor was VERY strict and I was right in front of her. My essay ended with... fast food establishments should ser... and all I wanted to do was add "healthy options" or something like that, but she yelled at me. =P</p>