After reading about the January 23rd 2016 SAT discussion forum on this website…
Several people had pointed out that collegeboard used the same exact SAT exam from June 2014.
Doesn’t that go against their “fairness & test security” policy? This is so unfair. Can I complain to collegeboard about this??
You can join the chorus, but it’s eminently clear that the CB, like a honey badger, doesn’t, um, care.
College Board issued a statement on this last year and they did not address the reuse. It isn’t like no one is pointing it out to them!
Every single international exam is recycled from an old US exam, fair?
Not fair at all, no.
It’s strange how the CollegeBoard would duplicate exams like that. I would definitely point it out to them, but since it’s unlikely they will do anything about your score specifically, I would evaluate what your next steps are independent of the CollegeBoard.
They’ve been doing it for over a decade, at least, so not “strange” at all. Disturbing? Sure. Borderline unethical? I think so. But strange? Nah, just par for the course. @PassEdge
I am one of them whose 1.23 SAT in Macao was cancelled… I heard that the makeup exam will be held in Feb 20. That’s too late… It badly impacts on my admission.
Yikes @marvin100, didn’t know that.
Reusing old SAT exams seems unethical and borderline fraudulent. Can’t you buy study books with old SAT’s in them?
Well, CB reuses unreleased tests, @am989 , but the fact is that many (all?) of those tests are “out in the wild” so to speak, via shady brokers, Chinese websites, etc. I don’t have any firsthand knowledge, but I’ve heard from enough people that they’re available that I’m fully convinced. [Here’s a good writeup](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/01/29/sat-questions-posted-online-before-exam-was-recently-given-in-asia/) of one of the most common and pernicious cheating methods.