<p>The scorers do see a better image. The College Board site says (at [Page</a> Not Found](<a href=“Understanding SAT Scores – SAT Suite | College Board):%5DPage”>Understanding SAT Scores – SAT Suite | College Board)
“Please note that the essay images seen by readers for scoring purposes are clearer than the images we can display for students and institutions on our website.”
I am not quite sure why they can’t display the real image, but I’m hoping the version scorers get is better than the one I can see. It looks like a binary image (only black or white, no shades of gray), so many marks that I erased are just as dark as the actual words are, and much of the essay is very hard to read.</p>