<p>Is the scantron able to distinguish between darker bubbles and pencil smears? I pressed kind of hard on the answer document, and I noticed there were pencil smears on previous sections. I was going to erase them, but the proctor came by and picked my test up so it was too late. :( AHH am I just paranoid or do you think it could really affect my score?</p>
<p>don't worry about it, just relax.</p>
<p>It could...</p>
<p>that's why I suggest testing pencils beforehand and only darkly marking answers you are 100% sure you know.... otherwise it can get tricky to erase them....</p>
<p>^ now the OP is going to go insane. i at least tried to put him at ease.</p>
<p>Haha, it's fine. I guess if I get a low-ish score I'll probably order score verification service...</p>
<p>Ahh dont worry </p>
<p>Everyone has this problem including me (and on same test lol)
Check out this link
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/610361-question-about-smear-answer-sheet.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/610361-question-about-smear-answer-sheet.html</a></p>
<p>oh yea btw i asked some of my friends, they said that it happened to them and if you had carefully noticed, NONE of the smears actually were on an answer bubble (they just were at random places). Im pretty sure CB designed the answer sheets that way so that if the residue gets transferred it will be at some random place, not actually on an answer bubble but just on the answe sheet</p>
<p>dont worry i had like 15 smears, proctor wouldnt let me erase</p>
<p>Ok thanks. that's good to know. :)</p>
<p>I had smears on my test the first time, didn't affect my scores (the smears weren't that bad)</p>
<p>don't worry.
when I was finished with the test, I wen over it to earse all the smear marks I made.
While I was erasing, I noticed that the smears were never on a bubble. so the scan tron won't mark it as a wrong answer.</p>
<p>yeah my smears werent on bubbles either
dont worry about it</p>