<p>When I filled in my answers on the answer sheet, even though I had used a 2B pencil, the shade of black in my bubbles was much lighter than the black color on the "Quality assurance" bubble. Should the filled in answers be as black as the "Quality assurance" mark?
I had also erased and changed a few answers. Although I had tried to erase as completely as I could, I couldn't completely remove the slight shade of gray left behind.
Do you think this would affect my score?
Has anyone had an error in SAT test scoring due to the type of pencil used or due to an incomplete erasure?</p>
<p>Could it have had an effect? Yes.</p>
<p>But I think you’re looking too much into it. It probably didn’t matter.</p>
<p>Relax dude. That quality assurance dot is printed in black ink, no #2 pencil could produce that!!! The machines aren’t that touchy, they are just trying to scare everybody into making their bubbles as nice and clean as possible remember there are a lot of dimwits out there.</p>
<p>I used to be sooo OCD paranoid about these too! But Scantrons like these are scored by a light shining through the paper… wherever your bubble blocks it, that’s what the machine marks. So the erased parts, I think the light will shine through~</p>
<p>I can always see a grey area when I erase, and it’s never affected my score.</p>
<p>Yep. Don’t worry about it. I used to be uber-paranoid about these things too :)</p>
<p>Thanks guys! This will help me wait for the scores.</p>