<p>Does it annoy anyone else how people on this site will not stop talking about how Collegeboard screwed up in october 2005? Now whenever someone gets a low grade then Collegeboard must have screwed up again- "I can't believe they gave me a 600 in math thats impossible"- no they didnt give you a 600, you earned a 600, deal with it. People act like Collegeboard is this enemy that wants to screw up and cost you points. Im pretty sure Collegeboard wasn't too happy with the bad publicity and law suits so obviously they are never going to screw up again, thats why it takes 3 weeks to grade- theyre not doing it to hurt us theyre doing it to protect us and themselves, and i believe they have every right to.</p>
<p>Don't you EVER say that Collegeboard will never screw up again. They screwed up once, and this in my opinion increases the likelyhood the they'll screw up again. How do you know that they won't grade the tests wrong twice? This is just as likely as grading them right twice, or catching a mistake.</p>
<p>Obviously they screwed up once, so it's possible that they'll screw up again, no matter how many times they grade it. Unless I grade it with my own hands, Collegeboard tests will have very little (if not zero)credibility in my opinion.</p>
<p>fyi theyve screwed up more than once. the mishap in october is just the biggest one. last year i took chem sat ii in june and they screwed up a bunch of scores from my area due to some problem with the ink used on the answer sheets. collegeboard will never be flawless</p>
<p>collegeboard is a good company that does not screw up and we should all have faith in it</p>
<p>Well it has a history of screwing up. I can't give faith to a company with a reputation for customer apathy and for screwing up.</p>
<p>Screwing up once doesn't increase the likelihood of them screwing up again. There is also not the same probability of them getting it right twice as them getting it wrong twice. For someone who wants to be a trader/investment banker/whatever, you really need to take AP stat or something.</p>
<p>collegeboard should be loved, adored, envied not hated........ just imagine all the tests they have to make every month/every year....like all those AP tests they have to create and all those SAT I tests and all those SAT II's they have to create for kids like us who keep on retaking and retaking..... yeah thats a lotta work cause it would take me a long time to come up with those good math problems and sentence completions..... so yeah there u have it guys dont jerk off on collegeboard jerk off on ur ownself cause u cant get the score u want!</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>ditto to the OP. People are so quick to blame others for their failures rather than admiting their inferiorities with regard to the SAT.</p>
<p>Get lives people.</p>
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Does it annoy anyone else how people on this site will not stop talking about how Collegeboard screwed up in october 2005? Now whenever someone gets a low grade then Collegeboard must have screwed up again- "I can't believe they gave me a 600 in math thats impossible"- no they didnt give you a 600, you earned a 600, deal with it. People act like Collegeboard is this enemy that wants to screw up and cost you points. Im pretty sure Collegeboard wasn't too happy with the bad publicity and law suits so obviously they are never going to screw up again, thats why it takes 3 weeks to grade- theyre not doing it to hurt us theyre doing it to protect us and themselves, and i believe they have every right to.
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<p>A-freakin'-men. Glad to see that someone has some sense here.</p>
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Don't you EVER say that Collegeboard will never screw up again. They screwed up once, and this in my opinion increases the likelyhood the they'll screw up again. How do you know that they won't grade the tests wrong twice? This is just as likely as grading them right twice, or catching a mistake.
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<p>Don't be a moron. First, you say EVER as if the poster was saying something offensive. Then, you go on to make the shortsighted claim that CB screwing up increases the chances of them screwing up again. Think about it. Does increasing the grading time, rescanning, and improving machines mean greater likelihood for screwups? No. Use common sense--if you were a company, would you want to deal with lawsuits and bad publicity a second time? Hell no.</p>
<p>Collegeboard may screw up, but have you forgotten that they grade the majority of MILLIONS of tests correctly? It seems so. How come when they grade AP and SAT tests correctly like they should, we ignore it, but choose to take the <1% of the screw-ups and blow them out of proportion? They're taking more precautions now, and whether we like it or not, if we take AP tests or SATs from CB, we're at their mercy for those tests. Period. So if you have to take those tests at all, and want to whine about CB . . . . you can deal with it. Unless you have some real course of action besides boycotting them and doing IB and ACT.</p>
<p>obviously jeresypete is going to make this arguement.....he has a 2200 SAT score...</p>
<p>THANK YOU murasaki. what was with that, "dont you EVER say that"..... CALM DOWN. geez.. some people are plain crazy.</p>
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obviously jeresypete is going to make this arguement.....he has a 2200 SAT score...
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<p>It's kind of fitting that I agree with jeresypete and have the exact same score.</p>
<p>I don't care. Collegeboard screwed up and has very little credibility (if any) in my opinion. I won't give collegeboard tests credibility until all collegeboard test records since collegeboard's founding have been audited.</p>
<p>Besides that fact, the SAT is a terrible standardized test anyway.</p>
<p>the SAT is not a horrible standardized test at all, it is just A standardized test.</p>
<p>all standardized tests have inherent flaws.</p>
<p>and i agree people should stop complaining about the invalidity of collegeboard. they grade millions of tests perfectly and they screw up once. ***** happens. it is actually a pretty reliable system.</p>
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I don't care. Collegeboard screwed up and has very little credibility (if any) in my opinion. I won't give collegeboard tests credibility until all collegeboard test records since collegeboard's founding have been audited.</p>
<p>Besides that fact, the SAT is a terrible standardized test anyway.
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<p>Yeah yeah, if you did well on the SAT (and I don't know if you did), then you shouldn't complain. If you didn't, practice. No adcom is going to care what you think about the SAT. Furthermore, you're still being moronic--you assume they have little credibility just because less than 1% of their tests were screwed up.</p>
<p>Haven't you ever screwed up?</p>
<p>Things are bound to fail, it's a fact of life. You just saying 'you don't care' ignores this. CB is a big part of the standardized tests and admissions for a lot of people, so if you don't like it . . . . guess what? You can deal with it. From the looks of things, they'll be around for a while.</p>
<p>^Amen {10 char}</p>
<p>...what happened in october 2005?</p>
<p>...apart from collegeboard screwing up. specifics?</p>
<p>In response to your question, xedx:</p>
<p>In October 2005, two people requested hand-scoring for their SAT (maybe they requested it after October, I don't know) because they felt that their tests were scored incorrectly by machine. Indeed their scores were false, and when the ETS (the people that score the SAT) realized this they decided to rescan all the tests from October. I believe at this point they have found close to 5000 tests that were scored too low and 600 that were scored too high. So the ETS changed all the tests that were incorrectly scored low, anywhere from 10 to a couple hundred points, whereas tests that scored higher than they should have were not altered.</p>
<p>The ETS claims that humidity caused the answer sheets to expand, and thus the machine that scores the SAT became misaligned with the answer sheets. As a result, scores were either marked correct or incorrect by accident. To prevent this from reoccurring, the ETS now scans each test twice and on different days.</p>
<p>This is not the first time that the ETS has messed up. Just last year, the Chemistry SAT II had an error. But to tell the truth, the opinions of frustrated people on CC aren't going to eliminate the SAT. Regardless of whether or not people think the ETS and Collegeboard can be trusted, the SAT is here to stay. Perhaps the best strategy is to practice for the SAT and do so well that even if the ETS does mess up, your score isn't completely ruined if it misgrades a few questions. After all, a majority of the incorrectly scored tests only changed by a few questions. Or, follow in the footsteps of my friend who got into Princeton with a 1900 on his SAT (his score was "low" because of OCD): build up your resume to show your contribution to society and natural talent so that your SAT score is negligible.</p>