Precision Scanning Equipment
The scantron machine eats maybe about 1% of the papers fed through it. Perhaps not “eats” in most cases, but it jams about that many.
Most of these pages are dealt non-lethal damage (successful saving throws?) and make it back through with some primping and prodding.
But every now and then, you get one that gets… “JACKED UP!” (ah, if football were already to return).
I had one today that had a triangular-shaped rip about 3⁄4” long that took the tear-out and accordion-folded it into the surviving portion of the paper.
I just ripped off the tear-out, smoothed the tear line, and fed it through. It read stars for that (unimportant) section, but it worked.
I’m starting to think that Pearson NCS should design fault-tolerant military equipment.