<p>My proctor in March was particularly annoying and kept telling me not to use a mechanical pencil. I ignored her completely.</p>
<p>As long as you use #2 lead, it won’t make any difference what kind of pencil you use. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve even seen any stores sell pencil lead that wasn’t #2 except perhaps certain art supply stores. I ordered the student answer service and to the best of my knowledge, there were no scoring errors and the score was what I expected.</p>