<p>I took the PSAT on the Wed. session in first period class, which is on the 3rd floor. ALL throughout the test we could hear the jackhammers and and drills and saws from the renovating my school is doing on the 2nd floor. It was so loud it sounded like they were drilling in the room. My teacher even said that maybe we sould get 30 or 40 points added to our score since the testing conditions were insane. </p>
<p>Also my school didn't allot enough time for the test. 7:30 to 9:30 when the PSAT is 2 hours and 10 mins long without the breaks in between. Nobody noticed until the middle of the test.</p>
<p>Seriously, there were four police officers outside the door. It was so funny to see the police officer put his knee to her neck on the ground. We got a refund....</p>
<p>Oh yeah? My story has to be the worse.....
There were a bunch of desks placed in the middle of the gym, right. So we are sitting there taking our test, and all of a sudden the basketball team comes running in out of nowhere and claims that they are allowed to have practice on saturdays in the gym. So we continue taking our test while they dribble away and continue shooting, AND THE STUPID PROCTOR JUST LETS IT HAPPEN! Yeah, my score was a 2130 even with all the bad conditions, but c'mon, seriously, is that allowed?</p>
<p>lol, sorry, I made that up, I just wanted to top everyone else's scores. I feel bad for you others, so I thought I'd just make a really bad story up and hope that maybe you guys would feel better, although I think I ruined it by telling you all this in my post....sorry. But you gotta admit, pretty funny, eh?</p>
<p>I took SAT II in Oslo University in Norway. This country is SUPPOSED to have a good heating system in public unis. and here I sit in an ice-chamber, shivering away with my test booklet on a micro-mini desk that could barely fit it, with an ADD idiot tapping his foot incessantly, next to me. The stupid proctor didn't even allow us to wear coats or hats (w<em>t</em>f? am I going to take notes out from my hat?!) Im glad it was only 1 hour of World History so I didnt get tortured for too long.</p>
<p>lol, I 'fess up. I'm one of those ADD idiots who can't keep my foot still. ;P Sorry to all the kids who sat in front of me at Brea-Olinda, or Valley Christian. Hahahahahaha. I can't help it. :P</p>
<p>Wow, I bet all these stories are BS. If not, you need to learn how to take tests better instead of complaining. There will always be distractions, it is learning how to deal with them that makes a true SAT master.</p>
<p>i have a pretty bad one... i left early for my 2nd sat (the last time i could take it again and get in my sat2s before my early decision deadline) just to make sure i'd get there on time. it was pouring, and i had to take the interstate. part of the way there, i noticed my car didn't feel quite normal to drive, but i thought it could just be the wet roads. when i exited my steering wheel starting shaking violently and my car was making strange noises and i was basically terrified, so i found a place to pull over. when i opened the door, the tire was SHREDDED and smoking and smelled like rubber. i'm a pretty small girl so i can't possibly change a tire and i was PANNICKED.</p>
<p>luckily an off-duty police officer just happened to see me, pulled over, and changed my tire for me. i got to my testing site and i was soaking wet but only a few minutes late. needless to say it was quite the experience and not a great way to relax before the sat.</p>
<p>Ugh, worst SAT experience? Well, I've taken it once and it was pretty horrible:
1) horrible proctor that wouldn't tell us when there were 5 min left (he called it with 30 secs left - what on earth?!?!)
2) no water in the room (absolutely HORRIBLE splitting headache for the last 3 sections)
3) no ventilation (probably contributed to the headache)
4) announcement over the PA system (on a SATURDAY! - what the heck?!)
5) TINY desk that barely fit the booklet, let alone the answer sheet as well. Ended up putting the answer sheet over the test book and looking at the questions one at a time.
Yeah...won't be going to THAT school again...</p>
<p>Okay, I had to take the SAT IIs in a noisy, huge cafeteria. yeah. the proctor didn't call time, and I didn't have a watch with me that day, so I only knew when 5 minutes were left. he also told us the wrong school number to put on the form, so everyone had to erase and do it over.... gahh, I hate cafeteria testing.</p>
<p>I've taken the SATs 3 times and the proctor has never called time... Do they have to do that/are they even supposed to do that? I just use my watch...</p>
<p>Actually, the rules in those little books the proctors have to read out of incessantly explicitly state that proctors are NOT allowed to give any form of time warnings whatsoever; you should consider yourself lucky if your proctor chose to break the rules and give you extra help once instead of griping that it didn't happen again this time.</p>
<p>Okay, that came across as really nasty and I apologize for that. I am really stressed out now, and I definitely didn't mean to be so...mean. Sorry. :o</p>
<p>P.S. I really wish we had more time to edit our posts. I missed the cutoff by under a minute. :(</p>
<p>When I took the ACT, the proctor warned us that watch alarms going off would make us forfeit the test...I was like, eh, my watch doesn't have an alarm. Halfway through the first section, when the proctor walked by me, I gave her the watch just in case, and she put it out in the hall with the other watches....seriously 30 seconds after she came back in the room, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. How lucky is that?</p>
<p>My worst SAT experience was being INCREDIBLY sore and tired from playing dodgeball until 2 hours before the exam.
I had two caffeine pills before the exam, and I think one more during.
It was my highest grade though, go figure.</p>
<p>When I took it in Feb. this year, right before we began to test, this girl puked all over the place. And it was no ordinary vomit, it was green and very watery. Yeah, um sorry that's kinda graphic, but wouldn't you consider it worse to be in my shoes with vomit creeping towards you right before you begin to take the test?</p>