标题: Fastest Method & Best Pencil for Filling Out Answer Sheet Bu [打印本页] 作者: hinsafdar 时间: 2013-8-6 10:09 标题: Fastest Method & Best Pencil for Filling Out Answer Sheet Bu
I’ve had some trouble with exams in the past because I’m a little OCD when it comes to filling in those circles. How sensitive do you think the grading machines are? What’s the fastest way to fill out these circles? Do you go in a circular motion starting from the center, or do you use horizontal strokes (and go a little outside the circle)? I’m always paranoid about going outside the circle too much or not filling the circle completely.
I’m planning on using Ticonderoga wooden pencils with a Magic Rub Eraser.作者: RoastBeef 时间: 2013-8-6 10:10
the bubbles in my exam were just little tiny rectangles so it was pretty quick/easy to fill in an answer. I assumed it would have been the same everywhere.作者: Windjam 时间: 2013-8-6 10:10
my gosh. fill in the circle.作者: SkipE99 时间: 2013-8-6 10:10
Just use a decently shapenened pencil FFS!作者: busterbluth 时间: 2013-8-6 10:10
glitter pens get you bonus style points - and every bit counts!作者: tango_gs 时间: 2013-8-6 10:10
You really should worry about less trivial things. The speed in which you fill in a bubble is not going to matter. The being said, I used the same 0.7mm Pentel mechanical drafting pencils for all 3 exams, even on the essay portion of Level 3. 0.5mm is always to thin for me and I always end up breaking the lead if I write to fast or hard.作者: bchadwick 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
You think you are OCD? I had 10 new sharp pencils , 2 ba calculators and 2 new erasers. I think the person sitting next to me felt quite sad when I started arranging everything in a perfect geometrical order with the engraved leterings from the pencils facing up. I even had a designated spot on the table for the eraser crumbs.作者: MiniMe7 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
Oh and I’d go against the mechanical pencil suggestion unless you are really used to it. I find its easier to fill a circle completely with the standard soft pencil. As for circle completion : outline the circle first, then fill in the center in a spiral motion.作者: comp_sci_kid 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
first, draw a 5 point star within the circle… for each answer… make sure each point on the star touches the border of the circle…
then pray…作者: wake2000 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
You could always bring a pin and use BLOOD, while the machine won’t read your answer it would make a statement.作者: infinitybenzo 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
Unsharpened pencil (fat tip) is faster to fill circles
Also, unlike Schweser, I think it’s better to avoid the answer sheet until the end of the exam. You don’t waste time going back and forth (240 times for Level I). Just make sure to stop whatever you’re doing and go to the answer sheet when there are maybe 15 or 30 (just to make sure) minutes left.
If you’re well prepared and absolutely sure you’ll pass you don’t need any of this, yadda yadda. But if you guess a couple questions from lack of time and then fails band 10 the little things may feel bigger.作者: YAhmed 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
Poop and pee作者: yodacaia 时间: 2013-8-6 10:11
Ticonderoga 1388-2/HB soft, the very best there is.
When you absolutely, positively got to bubble your answer sheet on the exam, acccept no subsitute!!!
I personally used 7 sharp ticonderoga in the morning and 9 in the afternoon. Don’t ask me why I use 2 extra in the afternoon. I just got sloppy towards the end of the exam.
Carpenter pencils are a close 2nd. Never tried them on an exam but the pencil is robust enough to survive in a construction environment.作者: segalm 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
Paper mate sharpwriter……and poop and pee.作者: sameeragarwal 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
Dixon Ticonderoga Black and a bold X through each bubble. Yellow pencils and dainty circles are a sign of weakness, black pencils mean you’re not f–king around. It’s business time. My tablemate was visibly upset when I pulled out the Ticonderoga Blacks last year.
He didn’t even come back for the PM session.作者: joehogue 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
use a magic marker. these new machines can only read glow dots.作者: d2rockstar 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
haha, respect.作者: comp_sci_kid 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
I heard that if you fill in all the ovals, and then crunch up the answer paper, and chew it and swallow it…. you find yourself in dante’s inferno…
I’m not kidding.作者: KungFuPanda 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
You need to sit down and carefully color in the circle like they taught you in grade school. If you don’t mark it dark enough, make it too dark, color outside of the lines, or don’t fill the circle in completely, the machine will ignore your answer and mark the question wrong.作者: chandsingh 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
I bring a different mechanical pencil with B lead. Easy and fast.作者: firat 时间: 2013-8-6 10:12
Yep, mechanical pencil with 0.7mm lead (not the 0.3mm, which I like, but isn’t really good for exams).
