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Dirigo wrote:LSAC does hand-scoring for an extra fee.

Oskosh wrote:

Dirigo wrote:LSAC does hand-scoring for an extra fee.

Doesn't it delay your score, though?

smccgrey wrote:I had to fix a string of misbubbled Qs and I'm stressing that I didn't erase well enough.

smccgrey wrote:I mean I have to neurotically obsess over something, right?

smccgrey wrote:

Dirigo wrote:

smccgrey wrote:I had to fix a string of misbubbled Qs and I'm stressing that I didn't erase well enough.

Hand scoring was made specifically for erasing errors, I expect.

Yeah and It was the last 6 questions of LG, so I'll know where to look. I mean it was really only the faintest of marks left behind, so I'm probably just being dumb.

ducks278 wrote:I'm glad this was brought up, I felt fairly confident about yesterday when I realized I bubbled one extra question on the scantron for the LG section. Will this effect the scoring of that section?

smccgrey wrote:

Dirigo wrote:

ducks278 wrote:I'm glad this was brought up, I felt fairly confident about yesterday when I realized I bubbled one extra question on the scantron for the LG section. Will this effect the scoring of that section?

I highly doubt this will affect anything so sleep soundly.

It won't if you bubbled in the last question twice - if you somehow got 24 qs on a 23 q section, and you're not sure how, that would be bad.

Dirigo wrote:

smccgrey wrote:

Dirigo wrote:

ducks278 wrote:I'm glad this was brought up, I felt fairly confident about yesterday when I realized I bubbled one extra question on the scantron for the LG section. Will this effect the scoring of that section?

I highly doubt this will affect anything so sleep soundly.

It won't if you bubbled in the last question twice - if you somehow got 24 qs on a 23 q section, and you're not sure how, that would be bad.

Yeah. There's not a chance you skipped a question but didn't skip a line on your bubble sheet, right?
Sometimes I mess that up if I skip a parallel question in LR.

Jeffort (snagged from another forum) wrote: I also know of a case where a test taker did not fill in several bubbles in a row completely (or at least not enough to satisfy the scanning machine. She had panicked when she checked how much time was left in the section and what question # she was on). There were also tons of questions in other sections where she barely filled in much of the oval but got the points, I'd have to find the file on my computer and look at it again, but I don't remember there being more than a few ovals completely filled in any of the four sections.  LSAC was kind enough to give her some of the points where the intended answer choice was clear but with less than 50% of the bubble filled in, but they did not give her the points for the ones where she had just made a small dot in the center of the oval.  She emailed me her answer sheet in a panic when scores were released asking what to do so I saw the bubbles in question before telling her she had nothing to lose but the fee and possibly also some points by requesting hand scoring due to her poor bubbling performance. With all of the questions she failed to adequately fill in the oval and was originally not given credit for, she had selected the credited response, just hadn't filled in the ovals enough.  

I think she got pretty lucky with her handscore, it bumped her scaled score up by two points, if they had also given her the points for the ones she had only put a dot in the oval, her score would have gone up by four scaled points. The person that did the handscore must have been in a generous mood at the time, it was for a December test in a year when the scores were released right around X-mas.  This is the only case I've every heard of where they gave the person the points for poorly filled in ovals the scoring machine refused to count, but I've heard of cases where in a handscore they took away points the machine grader had given because the handgrader person decided some bubbles were not filled in enough.