<p>I wanted to ask for a score-by-person of my SATS.</p>
<p>I know it costs money, right?</p>
<p>But what happens if they hand-scored it, and then found out that my score was lower than they credited me with? Would they change the score to something lower?</p>
<p>I honestly felt that my score was significantly higher on CR than what it turned out to be.</p>
<p>Why are you worried. You thought you did a lot better right? So why would you suggest that your score would go down? Don't hand-score. Waste of money; it never changes anything.</p>
<p>i HIGHLY doubt it's possible they will find it lower than it already is by machine.</p>
<p>not only what they said, but if you're worried about smeared answer corrections, they only change it if the answer is filled in as per the directions on the sections.</p>
<p>Look you weigh your options, the cost of the hand score versus the cost of retake. I know that transfer of marks from pages before DOES happen, the bubbles are slightly on top of one another in certain sections, depending on the pencil used and how hard you press. Took the physics yesterday, and YES marks can transfer from the page before if one has a habit of being heavy handed with the pencil . So it will be your call if you really think you did better, either go for the hand score or retake.</p>
<p>May I ask a stupid question? The answer book is designed to write on both sides of the paper. Thus, there is a small chance that the marks you make on page 2 are copied on to page 1, because you wrote over it on page 3.
In reality, a quick check in the answer book, and there were several light-gray circles that I hadn't intended to write (as samiamy says). Are these circles OK?? Would there be a chance that these "copy marks" could affect your scores dramatically?</p>
<p>Light Puddle,
Well, all I can tell you is that on Saturday during my test it was blatantly obvious that it did transfer from one page to the previous one. THAT is why I am getting mine hand scored. I read the College Board report on the issue that happened with October 05 testing score errors. One of the issues the quality control checks had was on the testing answer sheet and bubble design, the report stated that it could have a significant effect on overall scores, it rated each area of deficiency that PEarson had in scoring the tests.Although College board said wet sheets were the cause of that issue, Booklet design was also another one of them. When I looked at the booklet on line, printed it out, although it is not the paper quality the testing booklet has, when I wrote on it, section 8 would infact transfer significant stray marks in the margins of section 2,4 and 6, between bubble sections, and infact it could also be seen in 9 on 7 on 5 on 3 section. My answer sheet, showed strange patterns of wrong answers, chunks in opposing sections which when looked at were too odd and suspect for me. Will it change my score, I don't know, but I am not going to let it go. To me it is too significant an error, but my own personal choice. Dont' know if it is significant for you, or not, but if you find things not right, investigate it. The sheets should be one sided, you should not write one on top of the other, and be gentle with the penciling in the bubbles.</p>
<p>Oh sh**. I pressed pretty hard since I thought that the dumb machine wouldn't read it otherwise.
They should start with internet-based tests. I mean, it works for the TOEFL...</p>
<p>I think the entire process is stupid. Not sure if online is the answer either, no paper trail, look at the month of April/May in Virginia and Minnesota and the same company that scores the SAT, they had computer failures EVERY day the kids were testing. Computer screens just went totally blank during the state testing. No scores recorded, thousands of kids had to retake. Florida last year, the same company, overscored all of the 3rd grade advancement tests, kids promoted that should have been held back. This company HAS A REALLY BAD record of accurate/quality results. I don't trust them at all.</p>
<p>I tend to press really hard with my pencil and I am left-handed so I smudge and smear places. I don't know. Could a smudge / smear really be read as a fill-in?</p>
<p>I know that when I use my eraser to change my answers, I can never get the color completely out of the previous bubble -- there is always a gray stain.</p>
<p>Could that be read as two filled-in bubbles?</p>
<p>When one fills in two bubbles in an answer, is that read as "omitted" or "incorrect?"</p>
<p>hey i was doin the sat and then when i finished i looked at my answer sheet</p>
<p>on the back, where u have to write that whole statement about cheating, I saw that about 3-4 bubbles leaked through the paper and it was significantly profound on the other side. think i should get a hand check??</p>
<p>If your score is not what you are expecting I would. My score was about 300 points off of my very first practice, and about 600 from my last practice the week before my May test. What sealed the deal for me was when I saw the marks going onto the page before on the SAT 2 subject tests I took on Saturday.</p>
<p>Ok, I just payed for the SAT and no other services like like question and answer sheet and etc. So, what exactly will I get in the mail? Will I get a sheet that shows my answers (no questions) but just answers. So If I get a bunch of omits that I never did, I can get it handchecked?</p>
<p>Some of the marks on the 1st bubble page of the answer sheet got transfered on the margins of the 2nd bubble sheet but I think I erased most of them. The same might have occurred on the 3rd and 4th bubble page. So if it's on the margins, but not on the bubbles, is it still marked wrong?</p>
<p>HUGE bump, but I didn’t want to create another thread…</p>
<p>What happens to your score if TCB finds out that your score was actually higher than it was supposed to be? Also, are the answer sheets still the same as the ones mentioned on this thread?</p>