<p>I can't say that my experience with college-board customer service was ideal. I think I called a total of 4 times and got the same unhelpful answer each time. So the question I was asking was about math grid-ins: If an answer is filled in that is 2 or less digits, can it be placed in the middle rather than left aligned or right aligned. For example, (BLANK)(4)(2)(BLANK) rather than (4)(2) (BLANK)(BLANK) or (BLANK)(BLANK)(4)(2). Fairly simple question right? Well I have looked on college board, Princeton review, and other sources, and the answers are at best ambiguous. When I called the college-board service number, they told me to wait for my scores and purchase a 55 dollar score hand identification option to find out. They said it is impossible to determine whether or not that is the correct way to bubble the answer in. I am really agitated by this and would be grateful if anyone here could provide some clarity. Did I screw up my grid-ins (I did this center-aligned thing for pretty much all the 1-2 digit ones) or will the machine pick up on this/ be coded to understand this configuration. Thank you for reading, please provide me with some morsel of hope.</p>
<p>Any positioning of the answer is correct. So if the answer is 42, you can grid it 42–, -42-, --42. I believe it says that on the actual test, if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>It is surprising that you could not get a clear answer. From their own website:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/preparation/mathematics/student-produced-response”>https://www.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/preparation/mathematics/student-produced-response</a></p>
<p>They even have samples of correct gridding that address your specific question. Any position is fine.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>