<p>The eraser I used on last Saturday's SAT left pretty dark smudge marks on my answer sheet and I'm worried that the grading machine will misread my answers. How easily can the machines be thrown off, and how do I go about requesting hand-grading?</p>
<p>When you get your scores and decide that they are much lower than you thought, you can order SAS (SAT</a> Student Answer Service) and then decide about hand scoring (Hand-Scoring/Requests</a> for Score Verification).</p>
<p>i was scared of the same thing but then i was told that the computer chooses the darker marks</p>
<p>I always had this fear but I was always reasured that the collegeboard had been doing this for years and that they had developed a system were darker automatically scored.</p>
<p>Still, I continue to live with the paranoia :) but if the scores come back significantly lower, request hand grading.</p>
<p>if you accidentally skipped a question, would hand grading catch that? If every answer was correct but one over?</p>
<p>^nope . :(</p>
<p>I would've thought that would be much more likely to happen though. Oh well.</p>
<p>It would be less likely to happen than getting all the questions after the skipped one right.</p>