<p>Any suggestions to not avoid such a nightmare as skipping one oval, and marking all the rest of them incorrectly? Or similar errors?</p>
<p>For some reason I dreamt last night that I deserved a 2216 (I know, odd) on my SAT, and I got a 1007 (odder), because I mismarked the ovals, owing to being distracted by a girl.</p>
<p>Freaky? So help :)</p>
<p>Use your booklet to cover up unanswered questions as you go down the sheet. That way you’ll see an answer being right above it.</p>
<p>You can expect a few more dreams about weird SAT stuff!</p>
<p>mark every 5 ovals…and check the beg and start are right.</p>
<p>i haven’t misbubbled in a while b/c of this</p>
<p>Completely the girl’s fault, clearly.</p>
<p>if you skip a question, put an erasable dash next to the number on the bubble sheet AND star the number in your test booklet. At the end, do a quick scan to see if the bubbles match up. taking the questions by 5, look at your booklet and memorize the first 5 answers like “A A B D C”, then check your bubble sheet to see they match up, then keep continuing by 5s. It only takes about 20-30 seconds.</p>
<p>There’s an episode of Monk, in which Monk has to take a very easy standardized test – but it requires “bubbling in” the ovals “without going outside the lines; make sure your marks are heavy and dark; if you have to erase, erase completely,” etc. He never gets past the first question, because he is obsessed with a perfectly bubbled oval, tries to erase something, tears the paper, and keeps starting over … I think it’s someone’s test “nightmare.” And nightmares like that rarely happen!</p>
<p>Say, “1 A”, go to 1 on the answer sheet, mark A.
“2 D”. go to 2 and mark D.</p>
<p>That’s how I do it. :]</p>