<p>I heard about this! All the more evidence that ACT > SAT!</p>
<p>You heard about it? Good for you. What did you do, pick up a newspaper for the first time in your life?</p>
<p>im glad we pay them all this $ to have them **** things up.</p>
<p>The SAT testing people aren't known as ETS for nothing--the Evil Testing Service. :D</p>
<p>How do you know if your score is affected or not?
I 'm in the edge of 1800 - a 1850...
Well, a 100+ might help much, but al least it 'd give me a morale boost~ heh~ :)</p>
<p>You know, I was curious about this. After I received my scores in October, I called College Board and filed a complaint about how low my test scores were, obviously they didn't correlate with the other times I took the test. They were way off!</p>
<p>Anyway, I really worked hard and studied everything, and felt I did really well. But, for some reason, when I received them, I was totally shocked. That had to be impossible. I contacted them immediately and complained and they were somewhat hesitant about responding. Next thing you know, a few months later, there's this! </p>
<p>Interesting...</p>
<p>But yeah, to what someone said in the beginning of this topic, colleges have already made their decisions and it really doesn't matter that much now, unless it's a public university and the deadline for admissions is in May or something. </p>
<p>A REFUND is in order. They should just throw away the SAT's and go with IQ tests. HAHA</p>
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I would take the ACT but I'm already nearing the end of my junior year, and I've been prompted to take the SAT since 7th grade, and ACT was hardly mentioned, which is why I'm much more familiar with the SAT now. I think I wouldn't know how to work as well on the ACT because I wouldn't even be able to use the calculator I use at school and on the SAT and I wouldn't be as familiar with the test.
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<p>It isn't too late. You could take the ACT in the fall. Don't worry about the calculator. You really don't need a fancy calculator for the ACT -- just something to help you with arithmetic. Honestly, my daughter took a number of practice tests plus the actual ACT twice and used a cheap five function calculator (add, subtract, multiply, divide, and square root) and needed nothing else.</p>
<p>My son studied for the SAT, then took the ACT with little added study and did fine. The tests aren't that different in terms of what they test for, except for the science reasoning test -- particularly with the recent changes that made the SAT more like the ACT.</p>
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Its just too bad that everyone is saying to do lawsuits and sue and give em hell basically, but no one is taking any action.
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<p>There already IS a lawsuit. There was a thread about it.</p>
<p>To respond to someone else, the ACT is not an easier test. It is easier for some people, harder for others, the same for still more. The conversion chart for ACT and SAT scores is based upon a study of those people taking BOTH tests. Furthermore, both tests are curved to fit a normal distribution. One percent of the takers of both tests will score at each percentile. For instance, only 3 percent will score at or above two standard deviations above the mean (roughly 700 for an SAT component, 30 for the ACT).</p>
<p>did anyone get incorrectly scored too high? or were they all too low? If so, what do they do now, just a thought.</p>
<p>I recalled there was an interesting discussion a few months ago on related topic:
None</a> of the Above: Truth Behind the SATs</p>
<p>I was corrected on another thread (I think someone working for the ACT ... at least knows a lot about the test). They don't curve each individual test. Rather they adjust the scoring of the test so as to get the same results as a past known test. In this way the tests over time remain comparable.</p>
<p>I would still think the results would be a normal distribution because that is how people's abilities are distributed. She said the ACT results didn't have this, but I haven't seen the numbers myself. Just eyeballing the percentile ranks for particular scores doesn't make it seem THAT off. I've asked for a link to the specific numbers so I can see ...</p>
<p>Yes, according to news reports, some were scored too high on the SAT. However, those scores aren't being adjusted nor those kids even notified.</p>
<p>Im currently a junior who took the controversial October SAT test... I actually did very poor... Do you think admissions officers will omit those results considering I took it two times more?</p>
<p>I requested a rescoring for my April scores this year, because i very very rarely leave questions blank, and don't believe i left any blank on writing or critical reading (unless i made a stupid mistake...). Nevertheless, my score analysis said i left six writing and critical reading blank... Fishy, huh? Anyway, i have a rescoring request in and should find out whether or not they made a mistake before the 19th. </p>
<p>BTW, someone in my history class said the same thing happened to her...</p>
<p>Search around the college board site to find their help number, then ask for rescoring forms to be sent or faxed to you. Its $50, but if your score goes up you get the money back.</p>
<p>Requested hand scoring of my son's Oct 05 SAT back at the beginning of April. They had me put in a written request received-- e-mail verification May 10th said results would be mailed within 5 weeks. Well it is 6 weeks today. No results. Tried e-mailing--won't reply unless I call--not an 800 # either. I think I being giiven the run around. What should I do next? Is the usual procedure.</p>
<p>Previous post about delayed hand scoring Oct. SAT.
Broke down and called today. They acknowledged that reulsts hould have been received last week. Supposed to have someone call me by Friday.</p>
<p>I have a problem with hand scoring too! I got a confirmation letter of receipt of request to rescore over a month ago, and as of two days ago they were supposed to be finished with my rescoring. Nevertheless, i've called them up twice and they still haven't finished rescoring, but the second time i called they were apparently "looking into it." </p>
<p>By the way, i got mine rescored because i believe i only omitted 2 questions (i almost never omit and that was really rare for me), but they said i omitted 8 questions. </p>
<p>We'll have to see what happens with this...</p>
<p>heyy kwijiborjt same here!
they emailed me verifying the request on may 5....now on june 22 ive still heard nothing</p>
<p>its all absolutely ridiculous.. i know of someone else in my school with 15 or so omits, they told me 11, 8 for you, someone in your history class, and there's at least 2 or 3 other people on CC i've seen...</p>
<p>ugh.</p>
<p>Ok I have talked to the College Board once a week for the last 3 weeks. Each week I have been told that some one would call me by Friday of that week. No one has called. It has now been 3 weeks longer than they said it would be for hand scoring. What is the next step that I should take?</p>
<p>Suggestions?</p>
<p>it only refers to octover test, not june?</p>
<p>It sounds like you are dealing with low level people who don't know how to handle your inquiry and so tell you "someone will call you back." I don't have experience with this sort of thing with SAT specifically. But when I face it with other entities, I start writing down every contact I have -- when I called or wrote, whom I talked to, what was said, etc. Then I call again and tell whomever answers that I want an answer now ("I've been more than patient, I think you'll agree"). If that person can't help me right then, I ask to speak to the supervisor or whoever can answer the question. I ask for the name of the person who can actually help me and how I can contact them.</p>
<p>It seems to be a good general rule that if you ask for a supervisor, things move along.</p>
<p>If this doesn't work, try emailing -- this leaves more of a trail of your attempts that phone calls. If all else fails, write to them -- sometimes companies can ignore phone calls and emails, but a piece of paper -- it may get shuffled around but someone has to deal with it.</p>
<p>Good luck. It could be that they are just backlogged with many more requesting handscoring and they simply don't want to admit they don't have the people to do what they have promised.</p>