<p>Okay, so I took the sat today, and after I was finished, I flipped through my answer doc and noticed a bunch of stray marks from my bubbling. I flip my answer doc over so it takes up less space, but I guess I bubbled really hard and the marks transferred onto the other side. I asked the proctor to let me erase them, and she wouldn't. There were a lot and they were very visible. Will the machine still be able to read my answers correctly?</p>
<p>Yes it will (if the stray marks are over other answer choices).</p>
<p>But you can get MC verification. Basically, a real person goes over your MC to check for Scantron errors etc…</p>
<p>They were inside the section boxes, but they were mostly in between the answer choices. some were on top of the numbers. I am a senior and by the time the verification is done, it will be too late.</p>
<p>^^ are you talking about handscore? That’s an extra 50 bucks though…</p>
<p>If CB finds out that the scantron made a mistake, they’ll refund your money.</p>
<p>Imagine having to be the person who hand-scores the tests.</p>
<p>Someone told me that as long as my bubbled answers are darker, it’s ok, but i don’t know…</p>
<p>Is there a way to get them to do hand-scoring from the get-go? If I have to wait to receive the machine score and it turns out to be wrong, it would take another few weeks and by that time it will be too late to send to colleges.</p>
<p>dude that happened to me on the SAT and the Subject Tests and my scores came out better than I expected. I think you’re worrying too much.</p>
<p>My friend got his Subject Test for Bio rescored to E from M. It was still lower than what he had expected. And by the way, they do NOT fix stray marks. It means that you did NOT follow their “instructions.” If it’s a dark, visible stray mark that can be seen from a distance, they will see that you put two answers, and that you are therefore wrong. It doesn’t matter how dark your other answers were. At least that’s what CB told him.</p>
<p>The only successful rescoring done is if you filled in the wrong test form (E/M) for bio. And they will NOT refund your money. They say there’s a 1 in a million chance that they made an error scanning.</p>
<p>^I’m sure the OP would have appreciated your post more than 7 months ago.</p>
<p>^ hahaha lol
yea that post is for future viewers</p>
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I’m finding your post quite helpful, despite the 7 month interval.</p>
<p>Wowww… I should really be careful next time I take the test!
It’d be a real bummer to get stray marks on to the touching page if I fill in the
bubbles “too” dark…</p>
<p>Just use a mechanical pencil and if you use a #2 pencil, don’t fill in the bubbles darkly.</p>
<p>Score verification won’t fix the stray marks that the machine reads. I mean, how are they supposed to know which answer you filled in whether it’s lighter or darker?</p>
<p>I know this for a fact, because he filled in E before M (I think I had the other way around in my other post; ignore it), and then erased the dark bubble for a much darker bubble for M. Nevertheless, they graded him for E, and refused to refund his money.</p>