Hand-scoring SAT Essay

Test Preparation
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<p>Is it worth it? As in are there any chances that my score could go up (or down) simply becaues of a different reader? Or is it just CB seeing if they wrote down 12 and typed 10?</p>

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<p>i'm wondering the same thing...
whats the chance of your regraded score being lower? will they lower it or only change it if its higher?</p>

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<p>If you get hand-scoring done, and your score lowers, the lowered score will be your actual score, same thing happens if your score is higher. I would say it is worth it if you had tons of erashures on your tests and maybe a bad eraser, I would never trust a machine over a human if I knew there were chances of the machine making a mistake with erashures.</p>

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<p>The OP is talking about handscoring the essay, which is read by human graders anyway.</p>

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<p>Yeah I know, but on CB.com, they said you could pay $50 to have your essay handscored again? So I was wondering if that was just them double-checking that they reported the write score on your score report or if they actually went through and reread your essay again and decided if the score given to you did it justice?</p>

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<p>K, what is "CB"?</p>

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<p>college board. guys, just get an english teach to score your essay or something. unless you are getting feedback that really helps, just guess what you are getting. i always get a 3 on my bad essays and a 4 on my good ones. i got a 5 once cause my essay rocked. you can judge yourself better for the price then you can with a human grader who charges 50$ buy some books with some examples in it. they will help more then some onetime reader.</p>

<p>edit: wait a minute, do you mean for the real sat? they do have human graders for the sat. wow you know what, i have no idea what im talking about and am extremely confused.</p>

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<p>Yes I do mean the actual SAT. lol. I took it and I was wondering if I might be able to get a different score by requesting that it be hand-scored. I was wondering if that meant that they double-checked to make sure the score made sense or if they actually reread the essay and gave it another score.</p>