I was just wondering cuz I use mechanical pencils for everything but scantron tests, cuz I was afraid to take any chances with a test lol. But anytime I put wooden pencils in my backpack they always break.
I know this is probably a stupid question by cc is the place for stupid questions lol. Make sure the lead is either 0. One of the ways you can tell instantly whether whoever is processing your scantron is using a modern system or not is if the scantron is double-sided.
Modern systems have no such problem. Samiha:If your school is using the older scantron machine, then use a 2 pencil. If not, then you can use a b pencil. Regarding pencils, why are pencils made so long? And for that matter, provider a better quality eraser. I was scared shitless it would cause me to get a zero on the test!
Fortunately it turned out OK. Yellow pencils have simply proven to be an enduring remnant of that fad. I'll post a comment if I find out anything new. ScanPRO, don't know if you're still reading this, but one possibility occurred to me. Perhaps one or more teachers at that school instructed their students to fill in the bubbles as dark as they could. This misguided instructor could have thought, the darker, the better, so even students using 2 or HB pencils would make dark, shiny marks.
Just an idea. There is a point here about using mechanical pencils on Scantron bubble sheets or any other OMR that uses filled in shapes as opposed those using dashes across the centre of a cell. Mechanical pencil lead tends to be finer so filling a cell needs more "scribbling" - rubbing the pencil back and forth or round and round. This, in turn, is likely to make the mark shinier and shiny marks can read as light so the machine reads them as not filled.
I'd be interested in the results. Mechanical Pencil leads will come to a 45 degree chisel point simply by scribbling with them twenty or thirty times, thus "priming" them for scantron tests. I will admit though that the chisel point is sometimes hard to find and you have to make a conscious effort to find it and this all but precludes 0.
However 0. The machine doesn't know or care how fat or thin, sharp or blunt, your pencil lead is. I took a Scantron using a combination of a recycled pencil with no number and then went over it with a 4B sketching pencil and it read just fine. I knew they were lying. I was right. Thanks for the info! I'm surprised no one from Scantron has jumped in here.
My 2 cents: this conversation is leaving out an important issue, the Scantron scanner itself. We use an Insight 20 scanner one of the newer Scantron scanners. We scan surveys that come from the military, typically someone working on a base in the US.
Scantron told us to say "Use a No. I get forms that have been marked with just about anything you can imagine. And I have NEVER had a form that didn't pretty much have all its marks picked up unless the respondent used something like red ink, which was invisible to the scanner.
So if you're worried, but you know the scanner is the Insight 20, then relax. Of course, who the heck knows which scanner model is being used? So, if I was someone's parent, and they were told use a number 2 pencil, yes, I would go out and buy 3 and sharpen them good. But honestly, has anybody ever heard of someone who got screwed because their mechanical pencil let them down on a Scantron test?
Hi, Just wanted to know if in mechanical pencil all degrees of leads are available in all widths. If yes, which company makes them? Also, why do we have shine in shading when we are use these pencils. How can the shine be avoided while sketching. Will the machine give me accurate results? Dong Ho Kim: were you told to use a number 2 pencil?
Did you only have number 3 handy? As I wrote above, the chances are there will be no problem, but why chance it? I can confirm that mechanical pencils are FINE for bubble in tests.
Most of you are forgetting that someone who is not familiar in these fields and is new to the concept of all lead being pretty much the same wouldn't know the difference between HB, 2, 2B, 4B, 0. They would just define all that as "Mechanical Pencil". They just want to know if the mechanical pencil they used instead of a "regular" pencil is okay. Pencil graphite—specifically in weight 2—was great for blocking the light. The first scantron-type machines were used to score tests in the s.
During that time, it made much more sense to require regular 2 pencils and disallow mechanical ones. You can read more about lead grades and mechanical pencils here if you are interested. I personally think that it is downright misleading for the ACT to claim that scantron machines might not be able to read your paper correctly if you use a mechanical pencil.
However, the fact is that enormous bureaucratic organizations like the ACT and the College Board generally take a long time to change rules and regulations—if they change them at all. And neither organization necessarily stands to gain a whole lot from the change in this case: whether or not a student can use a mechanical pencil is unlikely to make or break their testing decision if they even have a choice on whether to take the test or not.
There are many stories and urban legends that suggest mechanical pencils are not allowed because they could be used as cheating devices. One such tale is that a student put a tiny camera inside his mechanical pencil and used it to take pictures of the test. Another cheating theory is that students could roll up ripped-out pieces of test booklet sheets and fit them in the empty barrel of a mechanical pencil.
That seems like a lot of effort to smuggle maybe two or three questions out of the testing facility, and the kind of thing that even the most blase proctor would notice. This plan, of course, relies on you having a proctor who pays very little attention to what is going on in the room. Do I think any of these scenarios individually are particularly likely? Yes, I do. The College Board and the ACT have a vested interest in people believing that the test is secure and so they take steps to secure it whether those steps are adequate or effective is a question for another day.
The very fact that people feel disallowing mechanical pencils may prevent cheating is a good reason to disallow them. This sounds circular, but for a major testing organization, appearances and impressions are important.
As alluded to above, I think there are two main reasons this rule exists. Second, it gives the appearance of a more secure test, which is good for the testing companies.
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