<p>Today, I filled in the bubbles only very roughly during the test since i was planning on darkening them after the 10th section while the supervisor collects the answer sheets..
i know this sounds so silly, but thats what i did for all of my previous SAT exams.. None of the supervisors ever said anything about it.. (in fact, one of them even encouraged me to do it..)
So, after the 10th section i was doing what i had planned to do, and this supervisor just snatches my answer sheet, screaming at me..
I was just desperate to have it back..
but he took it anyways..<br>
i tried to talk to him afterwards, but he just didnt want to talk to me..
I think it was more of a personal thing.. since he didnt seem like a strict supervisor at all..
He even ignored someones cellphone ringing and some timer beeping in the middle of the test..(im very sure he heard them...)
the worst thing is that i did not fill in the bubbles for the grid-ins for the math section.. i only put the answers in the blanks above the bubbles..
i read over the CBs policy about hand-scoring and it only counts for those who filled in the bubbles as stated in the instructions and still got lower scores because of the scanning computer error or something like that..
is there anything i can do?
oh.. god.. i am so screwed.. the college i wanna go to requires that students can only apply the year they graduate.. so this was my absoulte last chance of taking the SAT.. (january would be too late for that college)
any advices? help? anything??
ive been crying for last 3 hours now.. that supervisor totally ruined my future by not giving me a minute... a minute is screwing up my life....</p>
<p>First, calm down.</p>
<p>Second, try sending a mail to CollegeBoard explaining your problem. They might be able to better advise you.</p>
<p>Third, never ever take things for granted again.</p>
<p>Talk to the school principal or guidance counselor BEFORE they send the scores in. Get your parents to go in and explain to them that you just want to fill them in, but the school can carefully look at what you're filling in(ie make sure you're only filling in the math answers that you put in). Call CB as soon as you can, you must act QUICKLY before those scores are sent in!</p>
<p>^ The answer booklets are sent after they are collected. AND they are sealed right there.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don't think it's likely that hand scoring will do you any good. You're supposed to finish the sections by the time limits, and if you typically bubble after the administration ends, then you're getting more time than everybody else, which is kind of unfair to the rest of test takers. But you can always try calling college board or your testing center supervisor. Btw, when you make the call, don't say something like "I did that for all my other tests and they let me!" because then they might invalidate your other scores or something like that.. just try to say that you were only darkening your circles, you weren't actually changing answers.</p>
<p>thanks everyone..
does anyone know when the answer sheets are getting sent in?
i took the test outside of the US..
so i thought they wouldn't get sent in untill monday..
am i wrong?:((( too late already?
i tried to talk to my counselor (i took the test at MY school and he was there), but my supervisor came and kept interfering, defending himself & making me look all bad, and even forced me to go home...
the counselor seemed to be on the supervisor's side and only told me to come back on monday..
now that i think about it over again they were probably more concerned about canceling my scores than letting me darken the bubbles....
what would be the smartest thing to do now..
what do i say when i call the CB?
im worried they might cancel my score if i tell them anything wrong..</p>
<p>First thing I'd do is contact CollegeBoard and ask if a multiple choice score verification would solve the lack of bubbles in the math grid-ins. If they say it does, pay the $50 fee for the verification and hopefully the score will be corrected. The following quote is taken from the CollegeBoard website (Hand-Scoring/Requests</a> for Score Verification), which may include a case like yours, so it's worth a shot:
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If we can determine that you made an obvious error in filling in the information on the answer sheet (such as, but not limited to, placing your answers in the wrong section of the answer sheet or improperly recording the test identifying code), your score may change. In this situation, your adjusted score will be automatically reported; however, your score verification fee will not be refunded.
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<p>If that fails, contact the admissions office of college that you're trying to send these scores to, explain your predicament, and ask if a January score report with rush-reporting would suffice.</p>
<p>thanks ScythianEmpires...
but.. on that page it also says that "IMPORTANT: If your marks did not follow the published guidelines, your scores will not change, and your score verification fee will not be refunded." i think this applies to me.. so there seems to be no hope..
the college i am applying to is an asian college..
they dont care what happened on the test day at all.. the only thing they look at is the actual test score..and more importantly i have to take the SAT2s in january..</p>
<p>what i think im gonna do is:
First, on monday I'll try to talk to my counselor and beg him if i could or even if HE could darken the bubbles,
i'm emotionally so unstable.. i'll probably start crying while talking to him.. crying won't really help, right? T_T
anyways, if my counselor is willing to destroy my life, I will call the CB and try to explain my situation.. but i dont know how i can justify myself without saying that i did the same thing on my previous test and that it worked.. seriously wanna hang myself..</p>
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<p>you are not allowed to do this. you are not supposed to make any changes to the answer sheet at all after the time has been called for the specific section. i would NOT tell collegeboard that you did this before. if your counselor lets you fix them, you will be very lucky. if not, i think you are screwed and should cancel your scores, sorry. i feel bad for you.</p>
<p>how hard is it to darken a bubble? gently bubbling it in does not make sense to me. it saves you no time.</p>
<p>thanks andreaa.. i wasnt really aware of that..
i thought it was only about changing the answers or filling in the ones i have omitted. if any of the supervisors for my previous tests had stopped me from doing it, i would have never done it again.. it's too much of a risk...</p>
<p>so.. would calling the CB only make the situation worse? should i just simply cancel my scores and not call them, if my counselor doesnt let me fix my answer sheet?</p>
<p>how dark to the bubbles have to be in order to be recognized by the machine anyways? i think colored about half of the area.. this is not good enough, right? T_T </p>
<p>tribe567, that's just me.. i lose focus by trying to darken the bubbles properly, since i tend to be sloppy when i am in hurry..</p>
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so.. would calling the CB only make the situation worse? should i just simply cancel my scores and not call them, if my counselor doesnt let me fix my answer sheet?
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<p>yeah, i definitely would cancel. especially since you didnt even bubble your grid in answers. that will kill your math score.</p>
<p>This is so stupid. if your going to color half the area, you might as well color the whole bubble.</p>
<p>Yes, if I were you I would cancel.</p>
<p>Most colleges start going through apps by mid January, its not like they read everything the day apps are due. So the best idea is to take it January and throughly explain it to your colleges. Its a shame CB can't schedule test properly. Why make the January test on the 26th, students need it earlier for situations like these. Even I do. </p>
<p>You don't want to get into problems about your score validity, take it from me, battling ETS is not easy. </p>
<p>About bubbling, I thing I read this from Xitammarg, you don't need to fill in the whole bubble. All you need is a mark, enough for the machine to differentiate what column of bubbles it is in.</p>
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About bubbling, I thing I read this from Xitammarg, you don't need to fill in the whole bubble. All you need is a mark, enough for the machine to differentiate what column of bubbles it is in.
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<p>i read that too, in a prep book....but then i later heard it was wrong. and then in the next edition of the prep book, that little piece about the bubbling was gone. so i wouldnt try it.</p>
<p>Really? That's interesting</p>
<p>Well, I guess don't try, but if you think about it, its a machine. Its a qualitative analysis not a quantitative. I would think it checks if you answered this or that bubble or not, not if you made a perfect circle or if it was ovoid. </p>
<p>But if thats what the prep book did, don't try.</p>
<p>thanks everyone..</p>
<p>one more question: Assuming that i ASKED my proctor if i was allowed to darken the bubbles and he SAID i was (otherwise i wouldn't have done so), would this still be considered MY fault(cheating) and have some impact of my score?</p>
<p>hun, everybody's supposed to bubble DURING the test, not AFTER the test -- it's a rule.</p>
<p>hopefully you put some sort of mark inside, though -- then it'll count w/ hand scoring.</p>
<p>one more question: Assuming that i ASKED my proctor if i was allowed to darken the bubbles and he SAID i was (otherwise i wouldn't have done so), would this still be considered MY fault(cheating) and have some impact of my score?</p>
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<p>well, that depends, really -- even if he said it was, yes, it's technically still cheating.</p>
<p>ex. if your proctor makes a mistake and leaves the room and people cheat, it's still cheating. your proctor just told you the wrong thing, but technically on the back of the booklet it does say you can't work on the previous sections after the test. so you should know as well... =[</p>
<p>best of luck..!</p>
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<p>no it wont. they only fix your sheet for hand scoring if their machine malfunctioned. if you messed up bubbling, they dont care. you have to follow the bubbling directions.</p>