<p>This may be dumb. I just signed up for my SAT I for December. It says bring #2 pencils. They said do not bring mechanical pencils, Do they mean it? I use mechanical pencils all the time on standardized testings, whether it's for the state or whatever.
Do you guys use pencil or mechanical pencil on the SAT ?</p>
<p>It depends on the proctor; some will allow you and some won't
I always use brand new #2 pencils though.</p>
<p>you can use mechanical pencils. Disregard whatever they say</p>
<p>i used my mechanical pencil</p>
<p>i always use mechanical as well...but i also bring one or 2 #2 pencils just in case i have bad luck or something</p>
<p>bring mechanical and regular #2's in case your procter's strict.</p>
<p>will mechanical pencils make a difference in how ur answer sheet is scored, like, if i used a mechnical pencil, would i be marked off for a question i answered correctly?</p>
<p>no nothing like that...its just some proctors don't allow it...all of my friends and me used it...and we got the same scores we expected ourselves to get..</p>
<p>ight cool, thanks dude</p>
<p>Ok. I hope my proctors isn't that strict to the fact that he or she won't allow me to use a mechanical pencil. But I'll still bring a #2 pencil just in case..</p>
<p>My proctor nailed me for using mechanical pencils for reasoning out answers during the math section, so I would advise to take both, with multiple #2s just in case one breaks. (However, I did take one of my PSATs with a #3 because I had no other pencils. It went fine, as the onyl asnwers incorrect were the ones I actually got wrong. I don't advise this, however.)</p>