Hence the word “optional”.
That is not the way it works.
@xiggi Please care to enlighten and “sivilize” me.
Everyone expects a new test? Speak for yourself, and stop making false generalizations, as I personally don’t see myself as entitled to anything save for a test score that will be acceptable to colleges, which this sitting will certainly provide. @TMRSAT
This happened in my area (New Jersey). I really hope it was math and not English, because I’m much better at English, and they aren’t counting the section with the error!
What I mean is that each time you take the SAT you take a new test. That is expected. As to June 6 test, certainly some want a retest and some don’t. It should be optional.
My son will be taking the June 20 “makeup” SAT. He started taking the June 6 SAT, but the power went off about 9 am. Most of the classrooms still had enough light with windows and open doors so they continued testing, but they told the kids to stop at about 10:20 am after calling the College Board. (SAT II test makeups are also happening at the school on June 20.)
I’m sure there are enough power outages, extreme weather events, etc. on any given Saturday that the CB plans on some number of makeups a couple weeks later. The two week window gives them time to mail the physical tests to testing sites, but probably would not give them time to print and ship a really large number of tests.
@Ynotgo What do you mean June 20 makeup? Is that an option for everyone?
@Aleksandr7 Nope, it’s only an option for people who has local testing irregularities – like power outages, absent proctors, tornadoes, etc. But, they have enough of those each time they give that SAT that I believe they do have a makeup date for each of the SAT dates.
In the end it’s the simple principle that I paid for the exam and therefore am entitled to seeing my damn scores and not some pseudo-SAT, curved score! The only–mark my words, the ONLY–reason that the CB refuses to release our scores in conjunction with the curved score is because it fears–hell no, it KNOWS–that its statistical analyses will prove wrong.
@Ynotgo Oh 
@Aleksandr7 THANK YOU
Check out the petition for a retest at change.org! Send it to everyone you know, post it on all social media and forward it to news and television! Pass along to anyone who took, will take or had a kid who took or will take the SAT!
I talked to an admissions officer, and he said that colleges are communicating with Collegeboard to determine how to interpret the June 6th SAT scores. In other words, this test is likely to be viewed differently by colleges than SATs from other dates, which can put kids at a disadvantage! Test takers may suffer consequences for Collegeboard’s mistake, and this is simply ridiculous!
@greek786 What’s ridiculous is you jumping to conclusions based on one person reporting that “colleges are communicating with CB” - that absolutely doesn’t support your conclusion at all. Of course there is going to be communication; the important part is the content of that communication, about which you know nothing.
With Superscoring and Scorechoice and all the rest, there is no way CB would be releasing the scores if they had to send secret instructions to colleges about how to interpret them.
(Same response as I posted in the other thread.)
I agree with greek786. I also talked to admissions officer of one of the most prestigious institution. He said kind of what greek786 said. He knew two sections were cancelled so he knew exactly what he was talking about he said communications with collegeboard going on to determine how to rate the scores for June 6th SAT. I am not drawing any conclusions but what he said definitely make me worried as scores won’t be taken on its face value. Neither collegeboard or institutions will tell the real truth so it is a guess work now.
Only one section is being cancelled for each student and they are replacing it with the experimental section. Interesting the colleges think there are 2 sections being cancelled. But then again, you would think the information posted on the website would be accurate.
People who are going to affected most (negatively) will be the students who really did very good in this test across all sections, including sections 8, 9. Percentage of these kind of students is less oo obviously overall impact is less but may put these small percentage of good kids at disadvantage. I am hoping this doesn’t happen as every student has worked really hard and if someone looses admission or scholarship because of few points lost due to CB error then it will be really unfortunate. Do CB care??
Hello @momoftcm - are you certain this is the College Board’s resolution (to only throw out 1 section and grade the experimental)? The reason I ask is that I called them on Friday and spoke at length to an individual and then a supervisor. They indicated the experimental section would not be used and that both sections would be thrown out for all students. I made both of them tell me how the test would be scored and asked both explicitly if the experimental section would be graded. So, I’m just confused - are others getting different responses when calling College Board? Is there anyway to positively confirm how the test will be scored?
On Twitter the College Board has been repeatedly saying that the experimental section will not count.