thank you for confirming that I thought I was crazy because I saw 5pm twice earlier in this thread and I was confused a littlee
Upon further consideration, finicky/dainty petition has a good chance at being accepted by collegeboard because of their multiple definitions and the fact that they are indeed synonyms. I’m sure many students have heard of dainty being used in a fastidious type of way, and picked dainty as their answer. I might petition, but I don’t know if it’s too late or not.
Makes absolutely no sense to me to stay up to get your scores when they don’t get released until 5am EST.
Anyways, predictions…
Best case scenario: 800 CR, 720 M, 780 W = 2300
Worst case scenario: 760 CR, 720M, 770 W = 2250
Really hoping I’m at least 2270+…
So to be clear… For east coast is it 5am or pm?
Where did you guys heard about 5 am?
I remember when I took it in January, I woke up at 3 am and checked, the scores were up
How rarely does the collegeboard accept a petition and take out a question/accept multiple answers?
It normally is 5AM
but, i guess this is the LATEST time so maybe some get it earlier
idk though
Very, very rarely. @ambitionsquared
@JuicyMango I picked dainty 
I wish College board could just throw that question out!! It’s so unfair! But I guess it’s too late for me to whine
@krauser126: I’ve done extensive practice, and I probably took around 10-20 full SAT practice tests. I slowly worked my way up from scoring in the 1700s to the 2300s. Critical Reading is all about learning how the Collegeboard people think about each question, and proving each answer choice either right or wrong. If you can, try to check up the official solutions and read through each explanation for each question to see how you should “think” about the passage-question next time. Vocab can be fulfilled through direct hits, hot words for the SAT, etc. Math is all about accuracy, but you seem fine on that. And for writing, I recommend Erica Meltzer’s “The Critical Reader”, because it has everything you need to know to score an 800 on the writing section. And of course, just take practice tests because in my opinion that’s the best way to improve. Essay writing is completely about practice and being familiar with a certain set of varied examples so you can whip them out for the appropriate writing topic.
So the official time is 8 am. However, they’ve historically always been up BY 5 am. Earlier is possible as well, but less common. I’ve received scores like 3 times and it’s always been 5am but yeah it depends. I’m getting a good night’s sleep though, not worth staying up over when it’s unlikely anyways. Good luck to everyone! goodnightt
Good luck everyone!
@tina23 Join the petition. Just send a complain to the collegeboard and hopefully the question will get overturned.
@tina23: I feel you lol. I missed that question, and I think that cost me my 800 on critical reading…but the evidence that this question WAS unfair is wayyy to pervasive. Just look here: http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/dainty
Literally the SECOND definition INCLUDES finicky. They could’ve picked anything and they pick “dainty” and “finicky” to compare??? Very unfair in my opinion.
And are you sure its too late? They can’t just take out the question for all of us? 
Did anyone petition that question? Or any other question? Did Collegeboard reply back???
@JuicyMango I think it is too late; It has to be done by the first Wednesday after it. Did you also put dainty? I’m seriously going to be so pissed if they don’t take that question out because that was such a bull question. But, I’m not counting on it because dainty usually refers to taste and finicky refers to people. That will be CB’s excuse to screw probably half the people over
i dont think petitioning this late will truly help. They will fall back to the direction that say choose the BEST answer when defending themselves. CB uses that ambiguity trick to avoid any law suits
It’s not a bad question. The definitions are similar (like meticulous and neat), but they aren’t the same. They have different connotations and thus, one choice is correct.
^Yeah I know they will do that which really sucks. I think that was very unfair of them to even put synonyms on the same question, despite how “unrelated” they may seem in colloquial conversation. Hopefully at least 1 out of the thousands of kids who took the test petitioned that question. If it was successful, how would we know? Would they just take it out without saying anything, or announce it on their website???