<p>there were two different tests being administered at my school. collegeboard was administering SAT I and SAT II. The local Catholic schools were administering their admissions tests the same few hours. so every few minutes, we heard the pa system with the instructions for the test.</p>
<p>but apparently these conditions helped raise my score 90 points.</p>
<p>I had no breakfast, couldn't sleep the night before, got there while sick with a cold, had stomach cramps and my stomach growled so loud the entire 4 hours because I had to go to the restroom.</p>
<p>SAT II's.... Managed a 780 mathii, 750 chem, 630 history (no prep + bad circumstances)</p>
<p>My testing conditions were good. I was pretty nervous, I could barely fill out the information part. My proctor was retarded on the other hand. She could barely speak english so no one knew what she was saying. The kid in the seat next to me had a ***** dictionary on his desk.</p>
<p>I considered taking steroids before the test to stay energetic since i couldn't get any sleep but the test wasn't that bad. I started getting tired on the last section and it was ridiculously easy.</p>
<p>Just the other day on the saturday test, a student had a seizure towards the end of the test. It was very traumatic for everyone there; fortunately, the student turned out to be alright.</p>
<p>proctor/room experience wasnt that bad (like 5 people didnt bring calcs though), but i had a really bad migraine during the test. it felt like a rusty nail going through my forehead. it was so bad that i had to go to the er to get rid of it :/. and while at the er, it took 4 hours for a doctor to see me :|.</p>
<p>Wow, I feel lucky. I've never really had a bad experience. One funny story, though...
There were 4 of us taking the SAT subject tests in January. On one of the bulletin boards up front, it had "Mr. Smith's Thought of the day" The thought was: " If the weather man said that the high today will be zero, and the high tommorow will be twice that, what is the high tommorow going to be?" The one kid walks in, reads the board, and snorts. "Duh...it's gonna be 2 tommorow." The sad part? He was applying to Yale.</p>
<p>Funny story about taking a practice SAT administered by Princeton Review:</p>
<p>I'm inside the room in between sessions where the test is being administered. There is a girl in the hallway taking her break who apparently had a seizure in the hallway ... After seeing this, a kid in the same room as me faints--just completely keels over onto his desk and passes out. It was complete carnage!</p>
<p>Luckily the actual SAT was calmer.</p>
<p>^ LMAO.
That's epic.</p>
<p>My story: I walk in my testing center... look at the list, and everyone's in Room 123, 100 ... whatever. And I'm in the friggin GYM with like 150 other students! UGH. Anyway after I was done with the essay and the 2nd section we had our 1st 5 min break (I didn't go, I was pondering my essay and how much I could hope to get... so, I was in a very thinking pose, chin on hands yea) and then, quite suddenly, this weird freckled kid (who I didn't know at all) came in front of my table and shouted 'WE GUNNA DO GRAT ON DE SAT!!!!'</p>
<p>And I just blinked, didn't even move my hands or anything. I was surprised he didn't start 'EEAWWWING' like Tarzan and pounding his hands on his chest. </p>
<p>Funniest part: Everyone started staring at us, (or him, since I was staring at him too), and then he just walked out of the room as if nothing had happened. O_o</p>
<p>Oh, what the SAT does to poor little children... -.-</p>
<p>^Lmao! I can picture it now...</p>
<p>this probably isnt that bad compared to others, but i had a fever on the day of the sat.</p>
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lmao at this and the arrested proctor!</p>
<p>eeeeric, how did you do? (Did you mean THIS test?)... aw, good luck!
I have a fever right now and have an AP exam tomorrow. I feel your pain. :(</p>
<p>@Quick, lol, be glad you only have to <em>picture</em> it. But yea, definitely one of the most memorable SAT experiences for me.</p>
<p>I sat behind...and in front of...two heavy smokers. The one in front of me kept tossing her tobacco-odored hair all over the front of my desk and the one behind me kept coughing and her fumes just kept wafting at me.</p>
<p>Then I got really hungry and my stomach kept growling, lol.</p>
<p>Luckily I brought earplugs to block out the page-flipping, nasal breathing noises. Best decision I ever made.</p>
<p>^ WOW. That's really horrible.
Didn't you take any snacks or something?</p>
<p>As for stomach growling... yea, that happened to me too. I never like going in the first break. It just sort of disrupts me. And then later I felt I should have gone... meh.</p>
<p>Anyway, my proctor had a British accent... so hot. Lol.</p>
<p>Yes, but they weren't really enough....I had a pretty big breakfast, it just couldn't last me through the whole thing.</p>
<p>My proctor was reasonably well-trained. He worked quietly in the corner and proctored professionally. Which is the closest to perfect you can get, minus the whole British accent thing hehe</p>
<p>Jw, can't you ask for a retake with no charge if situations occur? (idk if you'd want to)</p>
<p>Today I took a practice SAT administered by Princeton Review and after passing up two 5-min. breaks that we had cuz I didn't feel the need to go to the bathroom at all...halfway through testing, I had the STRONGEST urge to pee and seriously thought I would've peed my pants. Good thing it was just a practice test...I was able to bolt out of the room partway through section 9 and quickly use the restroom!</p>
<p>Also, the guy sitting on my right had his cell phone in his pocket and clearly not off because it vibrated QUITE loudly every thirty seconds (literally). It was a very casual practice exam cuz the person overseeing the test either didn't hear the 35083 times his cell vibrated or didn't care. Urggh..it was so annoying!</p>
<p>Feed, your story made me laugh. :)</p>
<p>When I took the test in October 2007, they didn't have enough room for everybody. My last name begins with W, so I was in the last group. They moved us twice — from a classroom to an auditorium, then back to the same classroom — and couldn't find a proctor to supervise us. We started more than an hour late. When everyone else was done, we still had an hour to go, and had to listen to all the ruckus outside.</p>