Potential January 2019 LSAT Problem

mjmonte17

Hi everyone,

Today I took the January LSAT as my first official test. Overall I feel like I did fairly well (Don't think I bombed any section). Although this may be a bad habit, during my practice PTs I usually put a little mark on the answer sheet next to the number of question I choose to skip. The mark I make is directly to the left of the question number and is usually completely outside the column (medium to dark shade). I like to mark questions this way so I get a bird's eye view of the questions I circled so I don't have to flip through the section to look for them.

I am now aware how this could be risky, since the answer sheet says to make no stray marks. I don't want to lose points due to a machine reading error. If I get my score back and it is unusually low, I may submit a request to LSAC to have my test hand-scored. Has anyone had a similar experience?

I didn't want to erase the marks after the time was called and risk getting kicked out. I kinda feel like a moron for not catching this behavior before hand in my practice PTs. Does anyone have experience with marking on the answer sheet?

This bad habit could cost me $100, but if my score improves based off hand-scoring it will be well worth it.

Guillaume

I do the same thing. For November’s test I saw all the answers I put down on the scantron (and also the dashes next to the question #) and it all registered correctly.

mjmonte17

@Guillaume well that’s a relief to know, thanks for the response!

Bamboosprout

@mjmonte17 said:
@Guillaume well that’s a relief to know, thanks for the response!

Yeah, I do the same thing too, and well... can't promise anything for your case, but so far it hasn't been bad for me. You can always request a manual review if it turns out poorly

mjmonte17

@Bamboosprout right, time will tell, I still prefer marking the answer sheet either way.