<p>i am not too worried about the content of my essay tomorrow, but my handwriting is absolutely atrocious. Has anyone ever had their essay marked illegible? Would you suggest that I take more time to focus on handwriting at the expense of content. Or will the SAT graders make an attempt to read my essay, no matter how bad my handwriting is? On my World History AP test, I got a 5, so I'm assuming that the graders of that test could read my handwriting at least in part.</p>
<p>Poor handwriting can definitely be a handicap, but as long as the vast majority of your words are legible, you should be fine. When I run across a student with bad handwriting, I find I can almost always figure out an illegible word based on context, and I’ll assume the readers can do the same. I would lean toward focusing on content, and not stress TOO much over handwriting. If you did well on that AP, that’s a good sign.</p>
<p>Haha, I have the same problem, and I was wondering this too. On state-mandated writing tests, you get an hour and change to finish, so that leaves enough time to plan and write slower but on the SAT you get 25 minutes. This means no planning and constantly writing. I’m still a bit nervous about it because my speed writing is where I lose control… ;l</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure SAT readers deal with this all the time, so I wouldn’t be too worried. Supposedly, they figure out “patterns” in your writing that help them decipher your handwriting according to my AP Lang teacher.</p>
<p>Whenever I take the MCAS I take forever because my atrocious and gigantic handwriting takes up the whole page with an intro</p>
<p>DON’T WORRY. I have atrocious handwriting and I got a 12 on mine and it was veryfar from amazing</p>