<p>Those rich kids can’t be very smart, because $4,500 isn’t worth it, with or without the test. The College Board offers a prep course for $68 I believe, and I’m taking one for free. And the free one isn’t just a bunch of garbage thrown together, it’s well thought-out and really helpful. I already feel like I’ve improved, and I’ve only been working on it for a week. By the end of the course, I know I’ll be able to score really well, and I didn’t even spend a dime.</p>
<p>“They act like a for-profit business.”</p>
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<li>so do a lot of “non-profit” universities.</li>
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<p>I am glad it has been cancelled. If Collegeboard wants to insitute summer testing, make it available to all. You do not need a pilot program.</p>
<p>I didn’t even know they had an August test date. This is news to me!</p>
<p>4500 dollars!?!?! Wow that is crazy.
If they truly were attempting to stay a non-profit organization it would not cost that much.</p>
<p>I was looking for a August test date for my DD. sorry that it is not available. She needs 10 points over her first score to qualify for the Ohio Honors Diploma, or another science class. She rather take AP Stats, but is now taking the Science.</p>
<p>There is nothing non profit about. This organization…</p>
<p>It is unfair - because these kids get the benefit of studying through the summer, and at the end of their class, taking the SAT. They were going to backdate these tests to June - does that mean they were going to use the June testing materials? What if any of those kids took the test in June, or a friend who did talked to them about it? </p>
<p>Some kids get to take the June test when school is already out, but how long is school out before that test date? A few weeks? In New England, our schools are still in session during the June tests, and they fall right between AP testing and Final exams. Should they prepare for the SAT or for their finals? Then there’s October - about a month into school - should they focus on the SAT, or on their first marking period, which may be the last grades before their transcripts are sent out?</p>
<p>An August test date might be great, but the integrity of such a test requires that it be its OWN test date, not an extension of the June test. (And how exactly would the report scores for a kid who took either the SAT I, or even SAT II tests on that June test date? I’d love to see how that would play out). By all means, run a pilot program, but make it big enough to have useful data.</p>
<p>And kwu - it would still be wrong, even if it was a philanthropist running a program for disadvantaged youth. They can run a simulated SAT exam for them, and then they take the real thing in October like everyone else. If you have a test taken by only 50-100 kids, you can’t norm it properly. If you have then take a test from another sitting, you’ve lost the integrity of the test. If they wanted to administer the June test, and not count it, telling them what they would have scored, that would be a different issue. Still some problems with the integrity of the test, but on a much smaller scale.</p>
<p>^The now-cancelled August test would have been a previously administered test (but definitely not the June test), avoiding any equating issues. (This is not uncommon; the College Board does reuse tests. For example, the December 2005 test was reused as the January 2007 test.)</p>
<p>The SAT was administered in August from 1946 to 1963. But the number of students was very different. It could be tricky to do now, depending on popularity. In NJ, for example, many public schools have no AC at all.</p>