<p>the essay. I brought a watch and was timing the essay to pace myself. with 4 min left I start to write my conclusion...but then the ... proctor calls time a minute later...we got 22 ... minutes....I had 4 empty lines at the bottom of my essay. -.-</p>
<p>after, to make it up, he gave us 5 min extra on malth section - a section I finished 2min early.</p>
<p>dude thats idiotic!!!, shud have just given you more time on the essay. most people need more time for essay than math than is given</p>
<p>CALL COLLEGEBOARD NOW AND EXPLAIN THE DIRE SITUATION!!!</p>
<p>oh wow. that stinks man.</p>
<p>its kind of too late now isn't it ?</p>
<p>yeah man mine was too. he made us come up to his desk one by one after we were seated in any order. then he asked for our reg. ticket one by one. we all were seated then he said NOW i am going to call u for the ID. then we all seated again. then he handed us the booklet. all seated. then the ans. sheet :( i was like w t f ??? he wasted about 1 hour doing that. i had to travel one hour away to take that test (got there at 6:45 AM) and we ended up finishing at about 3:00 PM!!!</p>
<p>This happened to me in May, except the proctor didn't give us any extra time, not that that would have helped anyway, unless it was on the same section.</p>
<p>why would he give you 5 more minutes on the math section when he should be giving you 5 more minutes on th essay......</p>
<p>what a moron, you should def complain. But in the end, i doubt anything can be done. What can CB do? They might even cancel the scores of the people in your room since the testing conditions were definitely not under regulation</p>
<p>off topic, but how well do you have to erase lol? on that one question i put .16 at first thne i realized i read wrong and changed to .84, but i wasn't sure if i erased well enoguh</p>
<p>CB is usually pretty good at detecting erasurs. I had a bunch in may for bio and mathIIC and they both ended up fine</p>
<p>yeah, call collegeboard.</p>
<p>what? what good would that do? Do you think they're gonna be like "ok, here's some bonus points!" no, they're just gonna cancel the scores which will suck. </p>
<p>Colleges don't look at your writing score anyway, you're lucky you got 5 extra minutes on math.</p>
<p>Tyler's right - colleges really don't look at your essay score at all.</p>
<p>That does stink though.....my Nazi-proctors for the ACT were like that too - only fortunately, ACT grades the essay so easily that they didn't even care that my concluding sentence ended so abruptly....>.O</p>
<p>if u tell collegeboard, they'll prob cancel ur score</p>
<p>well sorry about your situation</p>
<p>severed....the graphite in the pencil conducts the electricity to the scanner, so if you erase it pretty well, it will not show up.</p>
<p>unless you want all of you scores and those of everyone else in the classroom canceled, do not tell collegeboard and just retake in oct./nov. (i know that sucks)...</p>
<p>last year my good friend had a proctor with mild turrets syndrome (i dunno how he got that job.. apparently he was from a different school district or sthg) anyway so he would randomly disturb them during their test, not by saying anything about the test but randomly making loud noises. they suffered through it, and then one person comlpained to collegeboard and everyone's scores were cancelled. my friend said that though it sucked to have that proctor and they were screwed over, she would've much preferred at least getting the scores. </p>
<p>cb really can't assume more than it was unfair=no scores. as someone else said, they're not giving more points; they just may never hire the proctor again and take your scores away (at least if you get a good math/reading score you don't have to study for that on your retake)</p>
<p>no, im not going to complain -- what would that do? It's just a crappy experience for my 1st time -_-</p>
<p>lol i sat in front of a girl who yelled "NO" everytime the proctor yelled time</p>
<p>Dude, don't sweat it at all. I had 4 or so lines left at the bottom of my 2nd page on my May essay, with just one incomplete sentence for a conclusion, and I got a 12 on the essay.</p>
<p>Oh man when I took the new SAT the first time it was administered (I was in 8th grade, it was 2004 I think) my proctor TOTALLY screwed up the essay. A little way into the section she told us we had 5 minutes left and all the juniors were like "uhhh what?? we have 15!". Anyway she cut off the essay 10 minutes earlier than she should have and we all had to rush to finish. And then in the middle of the math section we had to go back and get 10 more minutes for the essay because she realized that oh yeah, she really WAS wrong. It was awful. I didn't care because my scores didn't count for anything, but I would have been SO mad if I were a junior/senior!!</p>