<p>Is this very bad in the eyes of the writing graders?:</p>
<p>I start the essay section with decent handwriting. THEN, after the proctor says "5 minutes left," my handwriting gets a little out of control.</p>
<p>Do graders see this change in penmanship as "oh, they just wrote something down to finish the essay in time"</p>
<p>hahha that happens to me too
i dont think so, they know that you are only human
it's quality of writing, not the actual ... handwriting
though i know that there is a correlation between those who write in cursive and print... (cursive essays tend to get higher scores, and so do longer essays), but that is probably correlation and not causation</p>
<p>my handwriting was absolute crap at the end and i got an 11. I think one of the scorers gave me a 5 because i misspelled "compromise" wrong like 2 times a sentence.</p>
<p>also, do the graders care that you spelled names of proper nouns wrong, or get information about history a little mixed up?</p>
<p>edit: should it be "spelled names of proper nouns wrongLY"?</p>