The College Board, the Educational Testing Service and Pearson Educational Measurement
As most of you have already heard, on March 8, the College Board announced in a press release that over 4000 students who had taken the October 2005 SAT Reasoning Test did not receive proper credit for some correct answers due to humidity expanding the answer sheets. Though the average was less than 100 points, there were some who lost more points.
On March 22, another press release mentioned that another 1600 tests had been rescanned and 18 further tests were found to have errors. So a grand total of 4411 students received lower scores than they should have.
While the College Board has paid back the registration fees of all those affected (big deal)and will implement measures that should prevent a similiar occurence in the future (how many other times has it happened that noone knows about?), the real impact is still being felt by those students who may have received rejection letters from colleges based on these erroneous results or those who were accepted, but received less merit aid than deserved. To be sure, the updated scores have been sent to all the colleges and financial aid offices affected. Some colleges will go back in and try and right the wrong, but in many cases acceptance, rejection and financial aid decisions were made based on the lower scores and won't be able to be fixed.
Somehow the fix seems less than adequate.
From the College Board press release:
If school counselors have any questions, they can call the counselor helpline at (888) SAT-HELP.
If College admissions officers have questions they can contact their College Board regional office.
Students can call a special toll free number at (866) 387-2594 if they have any questions.
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As most of you have already heard, on March 8, the College Board announced in a press release that over 4000 students who had taken the October 2005 SAT Reasoning Test did not receive proper credit for some correct answers due to humidity expanding the answer sheets. Though the average was less than 100 points, there were some who lost more points.
On March 22, another press release mentioned that another 1600 tests had been rescanned and 18 further tests were found to have errors. So a grand total of 4411 students received lower scores than they should have.
While the College Board has paid back the registration fees of all those affected (big deal)and will implement measures that should prevent a similiar occurence in the future (how many other times has it happened that noone knows about?), the real impact is still being felt by those students who may have received rejection letters from colleges based on these erroneous results or those who were accepted, but received less merit aid than deserved. To be sure, the updated scores have been sent to all the colleges and financial aid offices affected. Some colleges will go back in and try and right the wrong, but in many cases acceptance, rejection and financial aid decisions were made based on the lower scores and won't be able to be fixed.
Somehow the fix seems less than adequate.
From the College Board press release:
If school counselors have any questions, they can call the counselor helpline at (888) SAT-HELP.
If College admissions officers have questions they can contact their College Board regional office.
Students can call a special toll free number at (866) 387-2594 if they have any questions.
Technorati Tags: Financial AidCollege Board Pearson Educational Measurement SATScholastic Aptitude Test
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