POWER OUTAGE DURING TODAY's TEST

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<p>Well it just happened to be that while I was working on Section 5 of the Reasoning Test today, the power went out. The fire alarm kept ringing and the lights were out for almost an hour. The proctor ended up canceling our test (and all the tests of the other students at the high school I was at).</p>

<p>I have to retake the whole test on the 18th. </p>

<p>It's kind of lame because it's going to be another 4 hours and I was doing pretty well (-1 depending on the Pluto question for Writing and probably a 11 essay, -0 Math [well first section at least], and decent on CR [the "rewinding" section was insanely hard but it was an experimental and I did alright on the first section...] I was hoping to get around 2300 but now I'll never know =/</p>

<p>Anyways, has anyone experienced this and know if they give a completely new test or just a different version of today's test (ex. east coast version? international version?).</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Hey, at least the fire alarm didn't go off during section 10 lawl, or you else you woulda REALLY wasted 4 hours</p>

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<p>Section 10 is the 10 minute writing section, so anyone would give that and get them all wrong so they could see their Math and CR scores(don't care if I didn't have any wrong in the 35 question one, I would be fine with -10, or at least fill in random letters really quickly). I think they should have still found some way for you guys to take the test under a power outage. I know it's not standard, but let the students see their scores!</p>

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<p>Actually, some of my friends ended up doing 3 sections in the dark (with barely visible light). We would have continued too but the fire alarm was too loud =/</p>

<p>Anyways, has this happened to anyone before or know what CB does in a situation like this?</p>

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<p>^ that's really an unfortunate incident =[</p>

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<p>Yeah...but hey, at least I have another 2 weeks...</p>

<p>I just hope the Writing/Math are just as easy (esp. the idioms - can't believe the idiom was "tendency to").</p>

<p>I've heard this happened to another school before. I'm guessing no one hear has experienced this?</p>

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<p>Did your proctor decide the test was to be on the 18th? I have never heard of this scenario, but I always wondered what would happen. You probably will not receive the same test again because 1) you took part of the test already, 2) I believe test takers are able to talk about the test 2 days after its administered (?) so then you would know all the answers</p>

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<p>So do you think they would create a brand new test just for us? Wouldn't it take more than just 2 weeks to write a new tests?</p>

<p>Do you think they would give us the international version of the test or is that the same as the test we all take?</p>