<p>I thought I read somewhere that there is an effective strategy to color in the circles without using up precious time? Has anyone else heard of this ? Can you describe?</p>
<p>i saw some strategy about filling in bubbles super-quick in "up your score", but the entire book seemed pretty pointless.</p>
<p>it was something along the lines of have a blunt pencil so you cover more surface area with each stroke....</p>
<p>seems a little ridiculous to me. you won't save more than a couple seconds over all most likely.</p>
<p>if you do want the full strategy though, just get a copy of "up your score" from the library or something.</p>
<p>I believe their strategy is to start from the middle and keep making circles(getting bigger) to the outside. It's very quick. You can test run it with the blue book answer choices. IF you have any SAT Prep book, most likely it will have these answer bubbles. Again, keep circling from the inside and go out.</p>
<p>Lol... this really shouldn't matter. Are there really books that teach you the most efficient way to bubble in circles? How much can you shave off each section overall - maybe 5 seconds total..</p>
<p>Trust me, your time is better spent learning how to improve on the sat q's themselves :)</p>
<p>farralicous, I disagree. "Up Your Score" wasn't pointless, just like most other SAT prep books, except way more interesting to read.
Up Your Score said that you can just put a little slash in each one, and the machine will recognize it as your pattern. just make sure you press hard. I think they estimated that it could save you up to 6 minutes on the test.</p>
<p>yeah always thought about that.. i always end up bubbling it in like 5 times to make sure it gets scanned</p>
<p>i bubbled really dark on my test for fear that the machine wouldnt read it... but then at the end of the test I noticed that after I had turned the page that the graphite residue from my answers to like sections 3 and 4 was transferred onto the bubble sections for 7 and 8. any chance that these stray (and entirely unintentional) marks hurt (or helped?) my score?</p>
<p>When ever I do bubble things I always use my thumb and press down on the bubble to get rid of the residue.</p>
<p>I know, I'm always too scared to use Up Your Score's advice.</p>
<p>you know this is retarded. just take your time to shade in those bubbles properly. it's no hundred meter sprint. its a 4 hr exam!</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with srrinath, i think bubbling strategies are pointless and I always circle from the inside to out. The whole slash thing, idk about. Sounds like if it works it could save some time for each section but I'd be way too scared to try that out.</p>
<p>^ we should all get together and pay some kid who to take it and try the slash thing. then we can find out if it works or not lol.</p>
<p>LOL, we should. Put on add on craigslist or something.... :)</p>
<p>haha yeah that sounds like an idea and I wouldn't mind chipping in for that</p>
<p>but if he didn't actually do the slash thing we'd have no way of finding out...so someone might just take money to take an SAT they were planning on taking anyway.</p>
<p>^^Woah that's brillant, um...so I'll voulenteer to try it out lol.</p>
<p>I've heard that one way to save time, in regards to this, is to write all of your answers in the test booklet, and then only when you're done with all of the questions and/or have 5 minutes left do you bubble in your answers.</p>
<p>i've also heard of that too, but personally, i would be a little nervous about doing that in case i didn't have time left to bubble in all the answers.</p>
<p>I write my answers in the test book, & bubble them in after I complete the page.</p>
<p>i sort of do that; i bubble after each page though, not after each question or the entire section</p>