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2019 SAT ® SCHOOL DAY Student Answer Sheet Instructions This guide will help you fill out your SAT® School Day answer your school if a processing exception occurs. sheet—including where to send your four free score reports. 4. School Code This field is required and will be provided Be sure to record your answers to the questions on the by your teacher or counselor on test day. It is a College answer sheet. Answers that are marked in this booklet will Board identifier representing your school. not be counted. 5. Student Identification This field is your state student If your school has placed a personalized label on your ID number. (Do not provide your Social Security Number.) answer sheet, some of your information may have already This field is required and used to assist in reporting your been provided. You may not need to answer every question. scores to your school, district, and state Your instructor will read aloud and direct you to fill out the 6. Grade Level This field is required to validate your answer appropriate questions. sheet as part of scoring. How Answering These 7. Date of Birth This field is required to validate your answer sheet as part of scoring. Questions Helps You 8. Sex This field is required to validate your answer sheet for scoring. Opting in to Student Search Service® (marking “Yes” in 9–12. Home/Mailing Address These fields are optional but Field 15) and answering Questions 16–19 and 22–38 helps recommended. Your home or mailing address is used to you connect with educational and financial aid opportunities. assist the College Board in matching your answer sheet Through Student Search Service, eligible colleges and to your College Board record. (If you are homeschooled, universities and scholarship and other educational programs you need to provide this information so that we can mail can request information that you have provided on your you a copy of your score report.) The College Board may answer sheet, but they won’t receive your actual test scores contact you regarding this test, and your address will be or phone number. added to your record. If you also opt in to Student Search You don’t have to respond, but we recommend that you Service (Question 15), your address will be shared with answer all these questions, because your answers: eligible colleges and universities and scholarship and other educational programs. Guide your counselors and college admission officers in helping you plan your future. Use these street address abbreviations to answer Question 9: Help the College Board ensure that the SAT is fair and Apartment APT Northwest NW accurate for all students. Avenue AVE Parkway PKY Provide information to eligible colleges and universities Boulevard BLVD Place PL to create a picture of the academic preparation, extra- Circle CIR Post Office PO and cocurricular involvement, and post-high-school Court CT Road RD plans of your graduating class. Drive DR Route RT Confidentiality East E Second 2ND Expressway EXPY South S Your high school, school district, and state may receive your First 1ST Southeast SE responses to some of the questions. Institutions that receive Fort FT Southwest SW your SAT information are required to keep it confidential and Fourth 4TH Square SQ to follow College Board guidelines for using information. Heights HTS Street ST Demographic and Nontest Questions Highway HWY Terrace TER Mount MT Third 3RD 1. First and Last Name This field is required to score your North N West W test. Northeast NE 2. Testing Location This field is required as part of scoring. 13. Country Code Leave this field blank. 3. School This field is required and will be used to validate Maine SAT School Day Student Answer Sheet Instructions 1 14. Score Reporting Your instructor will give you directions Special Questions (20–21) Skip these questions. for using the Score Reporting Code List (for Field 14) to Turn to page 11 of the answer sheet (page 8 if you are us- complete this field to send your scores to eligible colleges, ing a large-block answer sheet). Fields 22–38 are optional universities, and scholarships. This field is optional. but recommended. 15. Student Search Service Fill in the appropriate bubble to opt in to or out of Student Search Service (if you opt in, Coursework and High School Activities (22–26) These your email address will be included in your record). Student questions ask about activities that reflect your abilities and Search Service is a free, voluntary program that connects interests and your best estimate of your academic progress. students with information about educational and financial In the coursework question (Field 26), indicate planned or aid opportunities from eligible colleges and universities completed areas of study. and scholarship and other educational programs. By 22. High School Activities Mark up to 10 activities under the marking “Yes,” you understand that your responses to grade(s) in which you participated or plan to participate. Questions 16–19 and 22–38 will be kept by the College Include both school-sponsored and extracurricular Board and, except for your response to Question 17, activities. Bubble the “Officer/Award” column if you’ve may be shared with eligible colleges and universities been a leader or won special recognition (examples: team and scholarship and other educational programs that captain, prize for writing, state orchestra). Or, bubble “I participate in Student Search Service. Would you like us to have not participated in any of the above activities.” supply your information for these purposes? Fill in “Yes” if A. Academic honor society you wish to share your information through Student Search B. Athletics: Intramural Service. Otherwise, fill in “No.” C. Athletics: Varsity 16. Email Address Email address is optional. If provided, it will be used to deliver reminders about test programs, D. Career-oriented activity test-preparation strategies, and score availability. If E. Community or service activity you supply a parent’s or guardian’s email, it will only be F. Dance activity or club used by the College Board to provide updates on test G. Debating or public speaking programs. H. Ethnic or cross-cultural activity 17. Mobile Number This field is optional. If provided, you agree to receive text messages from the College Board I. Foreign exchange or study abroad about a test program for which you are registered, about J. Foreign language activity participating in research surveys, and/or about receiving K. Government or political activity free college planning services. L. Journalism or literary activity Instructions for Questions 18–19 Use these instructions M. Junior ROTC and options to answer each question. Questions 18 and 19 N. Religious activity are optional. O. Science or math activity 18. Language Background Answer both questions about your language background. P. School spirit activity A. What language did you learn to speak first? (Mark Q. Theater activity only one.) R. Work: co-op program a. English only S. Other activity b. English and another language T. I have not participated in any of the above activities. c. Another language 23. Self-Rating How do you think you compare with other B. What language do you know best? (Mark only one.) people your own age in the following three areas of ability? For each area, fill in one of the four ratings. Your a. English answers to this question won’t be included on score b. English and another language reports sent to colleges. c. Another language Mathematics 19. Racial/Ethnic Group Answer both questions about Science Hispanic origin and about race. For these questions about your identity, Hispanic origins are not races. Writing A. Are you of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? (You 24. Grade Point Average Indicate your cumulative grade may mark all that apply.) point average for all academic subjects in high school. If a. No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin you don’t know your exact grade point average, give your best estimate. b. Yes, Cuban A. A+ (97–100) G. C+ (77–79) c. Yes, Mexican B. A (93–96) H. C (73–76) d. Yes, Puerto Rican C. A– (90–92) I. C– (70–72) e. Yes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin D. B+ (87–89) J. D+ (67–69) B. What is your race? (You may mark all that apply.) E. B (83–86) K. D (65–66) a. American Indian or Alaska Native F. B– (80–82) L. E or F (below 65) b. Asian (including Indian subcontinent and 25. Expected High School Graduation Date Fill in the Philippines origin) appropriate bubble for the month when you expect to c. Black or African American (including African and graduate from high school. Then enter the last two digits Afro-Caribbean origin) of the year, and fill in the appropriate bubbles. d. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander e. White (including Middle Eastern origin) 2 Maine SAT School Day Student Answer Sheet Instructions 26. Coursework For the courses listed under Math, Science, B. Which of the following are you considering? Languages, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies, a. Public university, state college, or community do the following: college For each year of school, go down the list of courses b. Private university, college, or junior college (not and fill in the ones you took in that year. If you took an religiously affiliated) honors, Advanced Placement® (AP®), or dual enrollment c. Private religiously affiliated university, college, or course in a subject, fill in the bubble in that column, too. junior college (Dual enrollment courses offer both high school and postsecondary credits for the same course.) d.