I looked up on Yahoo and seems like there is no other company which does what it is doing. Do you think it is a monopoly?
Is Scantron a monopoly? Does it have competitors?
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Haha, you are getting ripped off. I have a coupon for 3cents off and I use it all the time. I get all my scantrons for 13 cents. Sucks to be you. Too bad you don't know how to search for the deals.
j/k
It's prolly around 10 to 15 cents a piece. My school stopped using them a couple weeks ago cause they were too expensive! I'll probably get smaller tests now cause teachers don't want to grade a bunch of huge tests. 
15 cents a scantron?!?! That is a fvcking ripoff
My school uses them all over the place.. It costs $15 just for 100 papers?
The software to make a scantron is minimal and the equipment could be made for cheap. That'd be a nice market for another company to jump into.
My school uses them all over the place.. It costs $15 just for 100 papers?
The software to make a scantron is minimal and the equipment could be made for cheap. That'd be a nice market for another company to jump into.
Actually they're slowly being replaced for quizzes and tests by web-based course management systems from WebCT, Blackboard, and eCollege, at least at the college level.
yeah webCT is such a piece of crap, so many things wrong with it im not gonna bother to list them
we use webCT for our materials course and its garbage! I hate its discussion page as well!
I like CCNet which most of the other courses use.
How come you guys have to buy SCANTRON sheets? Doesn't the school provide it for you? Our highschool used to do that.
Out of curiousity, what about it do you guys hate? ed - besides the discussion page, mentioned above
My employer (respondus.com) sells software to make the quiz/exam creation step easier, so I'm pretty familiar with that part of WebCT (and Bb, eC) but its been a decade since college so I've never used it as a student or TA.
My teacher makes his own "scantrons." He has people fill in boxes and then has a piece of paper with holes that line up with the answers. If the marked spot does not coincide with the holes in the piece of paper, then it's wrong. I heard that scantrons cost 25 cents each though, not 13-15.
aside from the discussions board?
just off the top o fmy mind
need to press "back" twice to go to previous page
files posted on webct cannnot be easily saved unless your browser has a good "save frame" feature (only one i've see that handles this weel is opera)
the navigation text is useless b/c it's never accurate. its as if they expect you never to use the back button
Arg, I pay 25 cents per scantron.
There is some competition, something called "Par-Score", a blueish and white tone instead of the usual green of the scantron. I'm yet to use one of these other sheets.
There is some competition, something called "Par-Score", a blueish and white tone instead of the usual green of the scantron. I'm yet to use one of these other sheets.
I would just buy a couple cases of scantrons to get some sort of bulk discount, and then resell them to random college students.
Yeah, I had to use a ParScore for some crazy GE comm class I had to take. Works just the same though. Whatever.
And I'm assuming those of you who have been gasping about paying for scantrons are still in high school. Things are a little different up here in the "big-kids" school.
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