Fastest Method & Best Pencil for Filling Out Answer Sheet Bu horizontal, machines, planning, starting, because

hinsafdar

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.

firat

Yep, mechanical pencil with 0.7mm lead (not the 0.3mm, which I like, but isn’t really good for exams).

chandsingh

I bring a different mechanical pencil with B lead. Easy and fast.

KungFuPanda

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.

comp_sci_kid

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.

d2rockstar

haha, respect.

joehogue

use a magic marker. these new machines can only read glow dots.

sameeragarwal

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.

segalm

Paper mate sharpwriter……and poop and pee.

yodacaia

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.