<p>I think i read somewhere (either in the BB or some Prep book) that you can't use mechanical pencils on the SAT. Is this true? Or are they ok as long as you use .7 lead? thnx for the answer</p>
<p>No, you can't use them.</p>
<p>Gah, I can't take a test without my lucky mechanical pencil...</p>
<p>Uh...how did my post get before yours?</p>
<p>Because you posted at 6:03, while I posted at 6:04</p>
<p>Yes, you can use mechanical pencils. I used them to take the SAT as a 7th grader (Jan '05) and wrote the essay (and got an 11) as an 8th grader (Jan '06).</p>
<p>Actually, I saw your post and then posted.</p>
<p>i use mech pencils on every sat/act/sat2 i've taken. Only one proctor said I couldn't use it, but i still did anyways =). (I got a 670 on that one though, so....)</p>
<p>is there a reason some proctors don't let you use a mechanical pencil? Because i'm so used to mine that to use anything else would be complete blastphemy.</p>
<p>^There really isn't a good reason, especially since it is easy to find single-lead mechanical pencils with #2 lead. Traditionally, though, mechanical pencils were all multi-lead and the lead (really graphite) softness scale is different than for wood pencils (I like "B" or even "2B", which are both pretty soft, #1 or #0 equivalent).</p>
<p>It's just another way to make standardized testing that much more bureaucratic and impersonal.</p>
<p>Yeah, i meant #2 lead in the first post, but it seems as if i put .7</p>
<p>w/e same thing. and thanks, fig, for the answer</p>
<p>The proctor read in the book that you could only use regular #2 pencil.
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