Signing the SAT Oath.... illegibly

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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I took the SAT II Math Level 2 a few weeks ago but at the very end where you have to copy the whole oath in cursive, I don’t think my handwriting was legible at all, and I’m not sure if I completed the whole oath. I just filled up all the lines, and thought, oh they won’t be able to tell if I’ve written this whole thing out or not because my handwriting’s just too messy anyways.</p>

<p>Now I know you’re thinking, wow this is one stupid kid. Sorry, I was just in a radically different mindset since I had just finished an hour of intense math problems. Too bad I can’t go back and fix it now. Does anyone know if my scores can be invalidated for having illegible handwriting for the oath?</p>

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<p>lol on a side note, cursive is illegible to me. period.
i honestly cant tell the difference between good cursive and bad cursive
(joke)</p>

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<p>It happens to about 1/3 of the people who take the SAT.</p>

<p>Ok, while a legitimate concern (I’m kidding up there), I’ve never heard of anyone’s SAT scores being dropped because their signature was “invalid.” And some people I know literally can’t write in cursive. They only make you copy the whole freaking thing so it gets drilled into your head.</p>

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<p>■■■■■, my proctor said “Write some words and some squiggles. You’ll be ok.”</p>

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<p>ROFL I remember that part… seriously the hardest part of the SAT. </p>

<p>I was like… cursive? Are you joking… I sort of just made the best squiggles I could, but it still took me forever.</p>

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<p>hahahah, me too! According to my proctor it once took someone 15 minutes to write it. FIFTEEN MINUTES! holy crap. :-p</p>

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<p>Lol I haven’t wrote cursive since elementary school (other than signing my name). It took me 5+ minutes while others were finished under 1. Everybody was staring at me and I just smiled and took my sweet time ;).</p>

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<p>Why the f-ck do they make you sign it in cursive, anyways? To make it look more official?</p>

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<p>All,</p>

<p>Your scores aren’t going to be affected by something this simple. Signing that ‘disclaimer’ at the bottom of the registration form is about the same as checking the box that says ‘I agree to the SAT Terms and Conditions’ on the website registration. You’ve at least acknowleged that the disclaimer was there by taking time to jot some cursive down, so that’s good enough for the CB. :)</p>

<p>I usually try to cite stuff like this, but you’ll just have to take me at my word, here. :smiley: :D</p>

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<p>Ahah, I couldn’t remember some of the letters so I eded up just drawing loops going across the lines and adding some extra marks here and their to make it look plausible. It actually hurt my eyes to look at afterward.
Ridiculous.</p>

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<p>I’ve done squiggly lines with a mix of words for my last two dates, both being very illegible since I didn’t even make an attempt to replicate the words. I have received my scores in a timely manner both times. Don’t worry about it.</p>

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<p>ahaha, I know, I took my SAT II American History, after studying hard for that and the AP exam… I get to the end and I’m like, “I have not written in cursive for 10 years…” And there were only like 10 people in my room and we were all from the same school and history class and the proctor was a former teacher. We all just start laughing.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I remember in elementary school when they made a big deal out of cursive. My teachers would always tell me, “High school teachers will only accept essays written in cursive, so you better learn it!” And of course I never had to write in cursive again.</p>

<p>Oh, and one girl in my SAT room took eleven minutes to write it.</p>

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<p>i thought I was the only one that sucked at writing that oath…it took so long…I haven’t written in cursive for so longgg…</p>