{"id":5884,"date":"2011-09-22T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:37:51","slug":"why-mechanical-pencils-arent-as-good-as-regular-pencils-on-a-timed-scantron-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/why-mechanical-pencils-arent-as-good-as-regular-pencils-on-a-timed-scantron-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mechanical Pencils Aren&#8217;t as Good as Regular Pencils on a Timed Scantron Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mechanical-pencil-scantron-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5885\" title=\"mechanical-pencil-scantron-\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mechanical-pencil-scantron-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mechanical-pencil-scantron-.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mechanical-pencil-scantron--340x313.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>While either mechanical pencils or regular pencils, with appropriately dark cores, will work on scantron forms, there is some evidence that mechanical pencils have an inherent disadvantage on timed tests that use scantron forms.\u00a0 This is because \u201cregular\u201d pencils have wider tips than mechanical pencils.\u00a0 Thus, the time it takes to fill in each bubble is significantly longer with a mechanical pencil over a \u201cregular\u201d pencil.\u00a0 This won\u2019t add up to much time on short tests.\u00a0 But with timed tests with hundreds of questions, it can make an appreciable difference in the time it takes you to take that test.\u00a0 On that note, perhaps a scantron-form circle stamp with erasable ink should be used to further speed up the process of marking the form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-you-used-to-have-to-use-2-pencils-with-scantron-forms\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils on Scantron Forms.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## While either mechanical pencils or regular pencils, with appropriately dark cores, will work on scantron forms, there is some evidence that mechanical pencils have an inherent disadvantage on timed tests that use scantron forms.\u00a0 This is because \u201cregular\u201d pencils have wider tips than mechanical pencils.\u00a0 Thus, the time it takes to fill in each bubble is significantly longer with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[920,921],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-mechanical-pencils","tag-scantron-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}