<p>Let's share the awful events that transpired during the test. </p>
<p>My worst moment was probably around 10:30 when apparently someone was smoking in the bathroom which set off the smoke alarm. There was a constant, high pitched buzz for 4 minutes... I was practically paralyzed during the ordeal. Worst of all they told us to keep working, I guess there is no procedure for time compensation or anything, but daaaaaamn!</p>
<p>As if I wasn't distracted enough during critical reading, the kid behind me decided to fall asleep and snore for the last 10 minutes of the first section.</p>
<p>Kid next to me had a HORRIBLE cold/cough.</p>
<p>Room was right next to the bathroom so we could hear the flush every 30 seconds, and there was a high pitched grinding every couple minutes that drove me INSANE</p>
<p>Wow, I feel sorry for you guys. My testing was relatively painless and straightforward...</p>
<p>Oh wow, I'm astonished that someone would actually sleep through the SATs! I would have just jabbed him with my pencil to stop the snoring lol.</p>
<p>A kid had a sneezing fit that lasted an entire 25-minute section. The proctor even asked if he wanted to excuse himself. I think it got up to 17 sneezes or so. -_-</p>
<p>Reposted from essay thread:</p>
<p>My examples were going to be from a book, a personal story, and the economy.
Then I realized that there was one minute left when I started writing the third example.
This became the complete final paragraph of my essay:
"Another example of the failing results of dishonestly can now be seen in the U.S.'s economy. If more people recognized the success that is brought about by truth, the world would be transformed."</p>
<p>my first time taking the sats wasnt a complete disaster; however the proctor was a college student that decided to show up about 1.5 hours late. and he didnt even write the start and writing times on the board, so we couldnt manage our time for the first section, until i asked him to write it. ugh</p>
<p>Started my essay on the wrong page =(</p>
<p>my batteries were completely dead for the first section of math! completely my fault! luckily some girl had extra batteries which she lent to me. i did alright without it though, but definitely would have scored hired with.</p>
<p>Didn't realize that there was a whole other passage with nine questions that I hadn't seen. Forced to keep going back with spare time and sneakily trying to finish</p>
<p>xD especially lockn's. But at least now you have a good story to tell!</p>
<p>My "horror" story: I went outside to eat my granola bar and overheard a group of girls. One of them yelled, "I checked the back and saw that there was, like, ten sections. I thought we were close to being done!" We just finished the third section. Needless to say, I was horrified.</p>
<p>EDIT: I do have a tale deserving commiseration. I could not sleep at all the night before. AT ALL. I ended up passing out on the bathroom floor three hours later (after checking the bags under my eyes) and waking up with a bad back.</p>
<p>Proctor called out "5 minutes" 10 minutes too early on (surprise surprise) the stupid Indian CR passage. Needless to say, I panicked until 5 minutes later, she told us she had messed up.</p>
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<p>HAHA. I had to do that, too!</p>
<p>The proctor was reading a book, so I would just casually flip back the pages, then put my answer key above the top of the page (it was SECTION 3 SECTION 3, etc) when we were on section 7 and 8 - Turns out, I made up four or five of the questions. :) </p>
<p>Never got to read the full article, but answered the ones in context.</p>
<p>my horror was the last math section :(</p>
<p>itt: BAWWWWWW
oh, and this girl fell asleep and started snoring like it was going out of style until the proctor woke her up.
I was probably the person in your room with a cough.
And I kept trying to cheat and write a better conclusion to my essay but as soon as I stuck my finger under the last page everybody kept staring at me. That's definitely the worst part of my sats.</p>
<p>inb4 more BAWWWWing.</p>
<p>After the test, my S told me that the night before the exam, he had his first dream ever when he dreamt himself dying. He said it was like a scene in a WW II movie.</p>
<p>..oh my haha</p>
<p>well
my horror story is that in the beginning, my answer booklet got stained since we were in the cafeteria and for some reason.. the tables weren't wiped very well
however...... and i had to explain to the lady that i needed a new answer sheet,since i didn't want to risk anything happening to my score
except..she apparently didn't understand me...sooo she had to go all the way down to the office and get two other people
that pretty much held my room up
it sucked
:(</p>
<p>this kid was sleeping and snoring during the essay</p>
<p>everyone started laughing
the proctor tried her best not to embarrass him and i turned away when he woke up haha</p>
<p>ARGHHH cannot believe i left my brand new ti-89 titanium in the testing room!!! praying no one took it .. i just bought it a few months ago b/c i had lost my old one! D:</p>
<p>also, i had to go to the bathroom at the end of almost EVERY section. painful. and the bathroom was literally, 5 min away so i practically RAN to the bathroom and sprinted back to get back to the room in time for the test. NOT fun.</p>