Do you think those sections will be invalidated for all test takers or just those that have standard time? I have a condition that allows me to have extra time and I was wondering if you think mine would be invalidated as well
How dare the Collegeboard mess up like this… Absolutely absurd. They take our 50 dollars and make a test that tries to screw with our minds and test our intelligence and now they just screw themselves over. Does this small misprint really need to become such a national issue? Good for the people who got 25 minutes. I don’t care. I took properly with 20 minutes like it should have been. I did extremely well on that reading section. And now they’re canceling my math section also which also went extremely well. But I messed up on my free response 25 minute. And now the scale for math is going to,be -1 750. I hate the SAT makers so much.
My cousin studied like a true scholar for this exam. The fact that CB can not find a better solution than this is a major issue. Her score could be significantly lowered from what it would have been with the allotted amount of time. My opinion: keep the sections and just grade people accordingly. Having an extra 5 minutes or not really does not matter if you know your stuff.
“Having an extra 5 minutes or not really does not matter if you know your stuff.”
There is no perfect solution, which is the big problem…the above statement doesn’t help the kids who thought they had 25 minutes, and then paced themselves accordingly, only to have someone come into the class, 19 minutes into the section, and tell them they needed to finish in a minute. This was my daughter and she had three questions still to finish, thinking she had six minutes left. This completely threw her off.
I think the outrage is interesting. Everyone makes a mistake once in a while. Best thing is to identify a workable solution and roll with it. If one of you perfect people has a proof to show that your new score is significantly less valid than any of the other scores the College Board generates, it would be interesting.
Everyone that took the SAT should have known that the erroneous 25 minute section should have only been 20 minutes. The back of the test booklet clearly breaks down the number of sections by time limit, and everyone was told to read the back of the test booklet. So its simple math that when you get to the last three sections, after seven 25 minute sections, that the remaining sections should be either 20 or 10 minutes. Saying that you thought that you had 25 minutes, and only having 20, is due to your negligence.
Not saying that CB is off the hook, but that excuse shouldn’t fly.
The problem is the proctor said they had 25 minutes, then 19 minutes later it was changed to 20.
What I think is not fair is all those students, like mine, who took the test in a room where the proctor gave them the CORRECT time - 20 min. Why should they be penalized for other people’s errors?
@msdarcy I feel the same. My room got the correct 20 minutes.
Give everybody 100% on the last 2 sections. Done. Everyone’s happy.
If you call it unfair… Well… getting high test scores doesn’t matter in highly selective school admissions but too low of scores can be a red flag. You’d rather have us red-flagged than considered?
@msdarcy if all the students who got 20 minutes got together and declared war on the CB, we could try them as war criminals (collective punishment) :))
I agree. There were plenty of kids who had the correct amount of time. When I called College Board, they said they were just going to divide up the test-takers into those who had 20 minutes and those who had 25 minutes for the sections in question, and grade each group. They told me the proctors are required to report each student who received extra time, so they could identify who got extra time and who didn’t. I don’t understand why they didn’t do that. They could look at the distribution of scorers in each group to ensure the distribution is normal as well. What they have proposed is really unfair to those who took the test with the correct amount of time. It means that the margin for error is far less than usual because mistakes in the earlier sections are weighted more heavily. CB should be required to identify those who received extra time and given the normal scores to those who took the test normally, and offer a retake to those who didn’t.
whatever. I think I did badly on those two sections anyway. Good for me fhat they’re not scoring those.
I did so well in the math section that they are not going to score.
So is this the final answer for this mistake? They will not score section 8 and 9? https://lp.collegeboard.org/information-regarding-the-saturday-june-6-sat-administration
The amount of questions which they seem to be accounting for on the June 6th exam is exactly the same amount of questions given on the PSAT(for math and critical reading) Critical Reading 48 questions, Math 38. Going by the exam my kid had, 8 was a math section and 9 was CR.
For those who had the timing print error in the reading section: Do you remember what type of questions they were? Was there a double passage comparison? Were the questions harder than the other reading sections?
Greetings from India!
Just curious if this only took place in the US or other countries too?
and also does this affect everyone who gave the test or only those who gave the one with the error in it?
Thanks!
I believe it was just in the US, and it is going to affect all US test takers.
An even bigger issue, and the reason why I am personally indignant, is that some test centers didn’t experience this issue. When I took the test, I simply relied on my proctor to tell me how much time each section was going to be. This means that, unlike the other testing centers, I did not experience this issue…but CB is still going to scrap my test section, for nothing…and what about the people who DID take it for 20 minutes like me? What, their scores are getting scrapped too just because of College Board’s f*** up?
Of course colleges are going to look upon this with skeptical eyes–they may not explicitly tell us, but they likely will.
Why is an ENTIRE section getting thrown out just because of the LAST 5 MINUTES…
I want my $50 back and a free retake in the Fall, because if I don’t get this from College Board imma start up a class action suit. This is unacceptable, they are messing with people’s futures here.
Seems like it annenguyen19…I felt like I did extremely well too, the questions were nowhere near as hard as the practice ones I took from Princeton and Barron’s. All those hours of work flawed because of 5 minutes…thanks College Board THANKS THANKS THANKS <:-P