<p>Is food or drink allowed on the breaks? How many breaks do we get?</p>
<p>Also, another question I had is... Are we allowed to bring a bottle of water and drink some during the test? The website specifies that bringing a drink including water is not allowed ..That sucks..... Its allowed on the SAT..</p>
<p>Drinking and eating is allowed during breaks, but no food or drinks is allowed DURING the exam.</p>
<p>Nope, you can't bring any food or drinks.</p>
<p>iljets10
-- You can't even BRING any food or drinks?</p>
<p>I've never heard of that. At least when I wrote it in Canada, we could bring in food and drinks and have them during the break.</p>
<p>wazzup--If it's allowed on the SAT, keep this in mind: The College Board just had a huge fiasco where thousands of students got the wrong scores because of moist answer sheets.</p>
<p>lubinli--You can't bring them in the testing room with you. You might be able to leave them in another room or something. Of course, at many test centers you will be able to break this rule.</p>
<p>Drinks, including water, are not allowed in the room because if you left a ring on the desk or something your answer sheet could get wet and that could screw up your score, or screw up the score of the kid whose answer sheet ends up next to yours.</p>
<p>I think the 'common law' rule would be that as long as they're somewhat concealed (under a desk, for example, or in a jacket pocket), you can have water or coffee and a small snack. The ACT only has one break, as compared to 2 or even 3 on the SAT.</p>
<p>I'm sort of a testing veteran (this will be my 8th standardized test this year) and I've had coffee under my desk for every single test, and a couple times water too. When I took the SAT II's at my school, the proctor (who was a teacher I knew well) let us have food out on the table, and said that as long as we didn't make a distraction, she didn't care if we drank durnig the test, noting that restrictions like no food create unnecessary testing pressure and will make you thirstier knowing you can't have it than if you know it's OK to take a sip.</p>
<p>i actually think its up to the teacher whether drinks are really a big deal...... i brought red bull to my 1st SAT test and my teacher didnt care, i brought red bull to my first ACT test and the teacher didnt say anything and i even drank it like usual, i brought red bull to my 2nd SAT and my teacher didnt care much, and i brought some extreme waker upper energy drink today to my ACT and i drank it during the test and during breaks and my teacher didnt care. So its all up to ur teacher but they really are not allowed during the real test times</p>
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If it's allowed on the SAT, keep this in mind: The College Board just had a huge fiasco where thousands of students got the wrong scores because of moist answer sheets.
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The moist answer sheets were not caused by water bottles; it was the weather. CollegeBoard acknowledged that.</p>
<p>Took the ACT yesterday and was allowed to keep a bottle of water near my feet so everything turned out all right :)</p>
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The moist answer sheets were not caused by water bottles; it was the weather. CollegeBoard acknowledged that.
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kchen, I know that. Read my whole post: The point is that moisture causes scanning problems. While moisture from a water bottle won't cause mass scanning errors, it could cause a problem for you or someone else.</p>