<p>Generally, the bubbles are set up to anticipate those marks. They aren't aligned, so most of the marks occur outisde the bubbles, so they shouldn't affect your score.</p>
<p>As for erasures, it really depends on how well you erased. I haven't heard many problems about bubble scoring. Those machines tend to be pretty accurate.</p>
<p>the proctors turned on the AC FULL BLAST (32 degrees),,,we almost froze to death,,,it was hard to even move our fingers to fill in the bubbles,,,</p>
<p>A lot of other groups finished way before my group and people were yelling, shouting, and slamming lockers in the hallways. Seriously? Why aren't people more considerate.</p>
<p>Not really a horror story but I glanced at the guy two desks over and he had 1/5 of a page written 15 minutes into the essay and no intention of writing more. :|</p>
<p>My eraser didn't work well on one of the bubbles, so it ended up kinda gray. I marked the correct bubble really really darkly. Hopefully the scantron compares the relative pitch of the bubbles in picks the darker one. Wishful thinking.</p>
<p>I came in with #3 pencils hahahahah I didn't even know that they existed.</p>
<p>^ Ehh, I had a lot of bubbles that were still grayish after I erased them. Now I'm nervous.</p>
<p>I've started thinking that I didn't fill the bubbles in dark enough. I'm just assuming it's part of post-test stress, hopefully.</p>
<p>Although, I am curious, if I ask for hand-scoring, can CB deem my bubble 'too light' and not fix my score if there is an error?</p>
<p>One of the kids sitting next to be literally farted every 5 minutes. God it was horror from 8:00 to 1:00..</p>
<p>Ugh my proctor apparently used her own watch, which was set about 5 minutes in advance, to do the times. So I wasn't watching the clock when she first wrote the times on the board because I was stressing about writing the essay. I looked up and saw that the end time was 9:15, and I was like, phew, lots of time left. Nope, that ended up screwing up the end of my essay so I didn't even have a conclusion. It was impossible to know when the time was going to end for the whole rest of the test!</p>
<p>I think that within the 3.5 hrs you have for the SAT, you should work at your own pace for everything.</p>
<p>haha my proctor checked our IDs every time we came into the room from breaks...it was annoying.</p>
<p>i actually have one that i wrote to collegeboard about. i know they're supposed to report all disturbances, but just in case... </p>
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<li><p>fire alarm went off when we had 7 minutes left for a section. we went out and waited (while several people discussed answers) and came back in and were given the same exact 7 minutes to reread, redo, and re-comprehend everything. Of course, our proctor was less than incompetent when it came to telling time, so she stopped us two minutes early. After going through the entire next section, she notified us of her mistake and told us to turn back to the old section and we were given exactly two minutes to once again redo, reread, and re-comprehend.</p></li>
<li><p>During another section, she told us that we had 5 minutes left when we actually had 15 minutes left and all of us sad there bewildered for a while panicking about how we're never going to finish, and after a minute or so she told us that we really still had 15 minutes left. that was a whole minute wasted, which counts on the SAT. </p></li>
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<p>anyways, this SAT is going to suck. i'm a nervous test taker as it, but with all these factors making it over 9000 times more stressful, there's no way i did well.</p>
<p>My test center ran things very well. The proctor had a no-nonsense mentality and was very clear about how much time was left, writing start and stop times on the board and giving us 10, 5, and 1 minute warnings. My only complaint was that it got pretty hot in the testing room which hurt my concentration, but compared to many of you that's nothing to complain about.</p>
<p>EDIT: Or should I say, "compared to the problems of many of you"... lol all this grammar is getting to my head.</p>
<p>Your stories make me feel so great about my testing site! LOL I went to Mater Dei to test there, and the isntructor was pretty nice about everything - probably because he didn't really seem to care.</p>
<p>But, small story anyways
We had a timer up front and when it got to the 10 and 5 minute marks, it would make 5 loud beeps. Heart-pounding, relentless, shocking beeps. I literally felt my heart skip a beat when I heard it, I sat right in front of the timer.....Oh and the girl to my right was pretty attractive as well =X. Couldn't stop looking at her...</p>
<p>My daughter bubbled section 7 in the section 8 spot. She fixed 8-10 on a new sheet, but left 7 blank.</p>
<p>Ugh, multiple debacles seemed to make a bad day worse.</p>
<p>I was diligently writing my essay, and I started to notice sniffling sounds behind me. Annoying sniffling. The girl behind me continued to 'silently' cry for another 6 minutes or so and then burst into full sobs and ran from the room. We were all like "....!"</p>
<p>I was in the middle of reading the big big CR passage, the one with like 13 or so questions on it and proctor says "5 minutes left" I was like "Noooooooo" and did some speed reading. She then said "Oh wait, you still have 8!" and I was like "Rock!"</p>
<p>I didn't have to go to the bathroom at all during my ACT, assumed I would hold up for the SAT. Not so much. After the 3rd break I realized I had to go. Bad. I have never had to go so bad in my life! By session 10, my eyes were swimming! I ran from that room haha!</p>
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<p>They wouldn't let her copy her section 7 answers over to the other page? That's going to hurt her score a lot. If they didn't remove the original 8-10 sheet, hand scoring should fix the problem.</p>
<p>Ah, horror stories. Mine were mostly math-related. I decided to misread a word problem as multiplication instead of addition. I then bubbled C (the correct answer), and when time was called, I stupidly erased it and left it blank. I also didn't have time to fill in a grid-in I skipped earlier because the end time our proctor wrote on the board for that section gave us two more minutes than when the counselor on the intercom made us stop. Ah well, I feel a little better after reading some of this thread. :)</p>
<p>^ How'd you bubble the correct answer if you solved it incorrectly?</p>
<p>^ It was the easy question about x^2+y^2. I figured in my head the answer (the correct answer was x = 0 or y = 0, right?), and put down C. Then I went totally nuts and thought I misread the question, and wrote down on paper this time (xy)^2. None of the answer choices worked, so I erased C and decided to come back to it later. Big mistake x a million. :P</p>