<p>I took the ap bio exam today, and I misbubbled 40 questions. By the time I realized it, I had less then 5 mins left. And when I was erasing, it was smudging all over the answer sheet, ruining it more. This is devastating.</p>
<p>I have the second highest average in my bio class. I got 5's on all my practice tests. :(</p>
<p>Will college board listen to my pity story, or should I not even bother and take it again next year?</p>
<p>Well, it really depends.
Did you smudge it in a way that incorrect bubbles were completely erased? I have heard that the scoring machine is pretty strict on choosing the correct bubbles (that is to say, it pinpoints your answers carefully). So I would recommend asking CB for a MC hand check; it will take some money but it is worth it if you studied for the exam.</p>
<p>I didn’t finish filling in the correct answers, there just wasn’t enough time.
When I was trying to change some, they were smudging all over the place.</p>
<p>I filled in them back in, so I had proof of a misbubble.</p>
<p>(max number of questions I missed had to be 3 or 4)</p>
<p>Just ask them. I had a friend who, as a sophomore taking her first ap test, bubbled in the 76-150 section rather than 1-75. Why? I have no idea. But she talked to the college board and got it straightened out.</p>
<p>Well, that I can actually understand because of the arrangment of their answer sheets. xD</p>
<p>But I feel like.they’re going to tell me ‘well if they’re wrong, what do you want us to tell you’</p>
<p>Ask for a manual counting or whatever like Johnny suggested. Or if the tests haven’t been distributed yet, contact a school administrator ASAP.</p>
<p>I don’t really think there is much you can do. I did the same thing with my World History exam in 2006 (dang, I’m old) – misbubbled, noticed at the end, and went back and erased and regridded as much as I could. I believe I ended up with about 20 blank and still got a 4 (to the best of my knowledge I did pretty good on the essays). And I was ABSOLUTELY not allowed by the proctors to touch my scantron once time was called. I cannot see your administrator or the College Board letting you do anything to fix it. If you managed to regrid everything but are worried about the smudging, you might want to ask for a handscoring. But if you didn’t have time to regrid – sorry, that sucks, but if you did well on everything else you very well may still get a five.</p>
<p>As others have said, if your issue is the smudging or incomplete (but still apparent to the human eye) erasure of the unintended bubbles, then you can order a manual grading by hand (info is in your AP Student Pack).</p>