<p>On the ACT, when you accidentally fill in the wrong bubble, erase it, and then fill in the correct bubble, you can still notice a slightly dark mark on the wrong bubble. My question is: is it possible for your answer sheet to be scored incorrectly because the the machine reads these dark marks as answers, meaning you have two answers to some questions (so you ultimately miss it)? I worried about this all morning...</p>
<p>i was worrying about the same thing >.></p>
<p>I thought my eraser sucked. I guess I was wrong lol. On the examples that showed you how to bubble correctly, there was one option that showed a faded mark, so I guess I’m not too worried.</p>
<p>I had many answers that I erased and they left smudge marks and so I thought that was the reason I scored pretty low. I asked for a rescore and it came back as the same score, so it didn’t affect me, even though I thought it did.</p>
<p>My erasure smudged horrendously.</p>
<p>I have the same worries.</p>
<p>damon: how do they rescore? do they check your actual answer sheet by hand?</p>
<p>@dylanfan</p>
<p>yes, however they state that if it’s incorrectly bubbled (ie you put an x instead of bubbling it in) i don’t think they will give you credit.</p>
<p>It depends on how high tech their scantron machines are…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry much about it, most scantron machines are smarter than you’d think.
I remember one time I tried to erase an answer but because I was sucking on the eraser (bad habit of mine) instead of clearing my answer it just smudged it, but it still recognized it as erased.
Either way, there’s not much you can do about it now–it’s not worth it to cancel.</p>
<p>Leaving smudge marks is always a concern of mine. It happened to me on the ACT and on an AP exam. In fact, not only did I smudge the answer on the ACT, I ripped a hole through one of the bubbles trying to erase it. I don’t know if it affected my score or not though. I scored high on both of them, so I’m not too worried about it making a difference or not. I guess I put my trust in the scantrons.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can pay 30 dollars to have it hand-scored.</p>
<p>I worry about this too, but think about if you were a scantron machine
If you detected 95% lead on bubble A and 25% lead on bubble B, what would you do?
I think we’ll be fine.</p>
<p>^ Luke Skywalker. The question is, are the scantron machines smart enough to compare the percentage of lead in the two bubbles?</p>