<p>I just read the breakdown of the monstrous SAT scores online and I asked my daughter why she hadn’t told me that she left six out on the math section – if I had known that I would have cancelled the scores immediately.</p>
<p>She answers “but mom, I didn’t leave any blank.”</p>
<p>Cue Twilight Zone theme song.</p>
<p>Okay - this sounds like a good time to ask for a manual rescoring!!! Might be worth the money.</p>
<p>Zoosermom - That does sound quite strange, and you should try to get a rescoring done. However, for the future, maybe part of your daughter’s problem is that she is not leaving any blank. I mean, I was a student aiming for a mid 700s math score and even I left two blank - because I knew that, even on the test day of my life, there would be a couple of questions I just couldn’t do. If you are talking abaout scores in the 5 or 6 hundreds, you should be leaving a decent number blank. When your daughter takes practice tests, or when she gets this test booklet back, look at how many she got wrong towards the end of each section. If she had left a good number of those blank, I’m guessing each o her scores would have been 50 points higher because she wouldn’t have lost penalty points.</p>
<p>Request a manual rescoring, if only to get a first person report on those “blanks.” It’s possible the markings were (a) too faint or (b) too small or (c) too far outside the lines or (d) smudged or (e) something else that rendered machine scoring useless.</p>
<p>There are just too many issues here. First, the issue of whether the score should appear on the transcript. I think that the focus should be here.</p>
<p>Second, the issue of the total lack of breaks at the test which made the D unable to really concentrate. This was the explanation for the low scores and is quite persuasive.</p>
<p>Third is the issue of the supposed blanks. It is very likely that the blanks were actually filled in. A hand scoring might bring up the score somewhat. But the second issue could still result in a low score. I’d forget about the hand-scoring and concentrate on getting the transcript cleaned up.</p>