<p>After my boyfriend being sick & doing everything he can not to get me sick, I wake up yesterday feeling like I got hit by a truck. I felt like hell the entire time. The I blanked on the essay, couldn’t apply my prepared examples. I used personal exapmles but my first was so wierdly worded and vague (really personal stuff so it was awkward but maybe I’ll get a sympathy point ha). I ran out of time before I finished the last paragraph of my second body paragraph and (obviously) didn’t get my conclusion in. Then I realized that I skipped section 7 on the answer sheet so I had two completely switched up sections and one blank… The proctor was cool about it though and let me stay after to fix everything </p>
<p>Between that and how groggy I felt I’m preparing myself for a 7 essay and a horrible score. Sucks, my goal score was 2100… :(</p>
My proctors (there were two) kept going in and out of the room and the noise the door made was distracting.
They were also talking during testing time.
After about two minutes into a section, one of them shouted “Hey the timer is not working. Everyone stop working!!” and we had to wait a while for them to fix the timer.
I was taking the subject tests (1 hour long each) and about 20 minutes after we started, one proctor said that we have three minutes left. I freaked out. And then she corrected herself.
This is really trivial but my proctor kept stuttering when she was reading the instructions before/after/in between test taking. She (an old white woman) seemed like she was worse than me at reading English, which isn’t even my first language. At one point she started reading the instruction for people taking SATs on Sunday because of religious reasons…and today’s not Sunday!!!</p>
<p>I was really annoyed by the end and wanted to slap the proctors with my SAT test booklet.</p>
<p>At the test center my S took the SAT at, they were busy tearing apart the parking lot in the front of the school. He said occasionally noise drifted it but it oddly sounded like an owl.</p>
<p>Oh yes there were lots of stomach growls especially me, I was a monster. I tried to drink water during the test but the proctor kept glaring me he made everyone leave the room even if it was a tiny sip. He warned a guy when he didn’t put his pencil down immediately after he called time. Then he thought some girl cheated because he thought section 2 was all writing but hers was math. What a fool!</p>
<p>I was taking subject tests and at first there were only four people including me. One girl was asking the proctor a ton of questions (how long do we get, can we use a calculator, etc.) and then she decided to take the SAT I today instead. Kind of weird…</p>
<p>a kid from S’s school was kicked out of subject test for cheating… think he was caught going back on first test during 2nd test…kid was sitting in front of S…</p>
<p>After finishing the test, the proctor was giving instructions about not sharing answers and blah blah: “You will not, under any circumci-- excuse me, under any circumstances…” I tried not to lol.</p>
<p>Took the SAT, about 35-45 kids in the class… didn’t count…
I’d say overall there was 200 kids there today.
This one kids cellphone went off, the proctor didn’t notice!</p>
<p>@ Computerized: What school did you take it at…or I guess what state. If in NY, what school?</p>
<p>I took the SAT I and there were like…25 kids in the class I was in. It was annoying because like, I guess the walls were pretty thin and I kept hearing the proctor in the other room reading instructions while we were testing. Really annoying. And the guy sitting behind me kept sneezing and blowing his nose…Swine flu much? Hahaha.</p>
<p>Oh. & this guy got caught cheating - he was on section 7 while were were in section 2 or something. Proctors were nice though, they didn’t kick him out. Just gave him a warning. My proctor let me keep water on my desk and we had our calculators out the whole time. </p>
<p>During one of my CR sections, a cellphone went off. It was the proctor’s cellphone. She was just like “Oh, haha, forgot to turn mine off…” I got so flustered because of her stupid loud ringtone!</p>
<p>Last time I wrote in cursive was elementary school. When I did the SAT in December I remember I just started scribbling towards the end because I was writing so slow.</p>
<p>haha i got some good stories… I sat next to the wall of the room, so every time some1 sharpaned their pencil it was like a woodpecker pecking in my ear… and also i had to take the biggest **** ever!!</p>
<p>LOL, a lot of people in my room apparently had no idea how to write in cursive, so the proctor had to write the entire alphabet in cursive on the board. It was kind of funny. Seriously, I think everyone was doing it on purpose just to annoy the proctor, who was actually really nice even though she had no idea what she was doing most of the time. She called for the end of the test after section 9, not knowing that there was anther section.</p>
<p>I love this thread. After stressing over how I have gotten probably about a million questions wrong and debated about cancelling my score for several hours, these stories really make my day:)</p>