<p>Did anyone who took the Oct. SAT request handscoring to make sure collegeboard didn't mess up our scores?</p>
<p>I did not. I took it again, thought I did well, but decided not to even bother with SATs again because everything else on my app looks great.</p>
<p>I should have, but didn't.</p>
<p>Oh I didn't know that you can request hand-scoring. How much is the extra-charge? I couldn't find it on the website when I registered.</p>
<p>i did order hand scoring for the january SAT because my qas showed 2 or three skipped math questions and i've never omitted math questions before. $50 later my score remains the same - no scoring mistakes found. i should've just ordered a copy of my answer sheet:
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The fee for the [qas] service is $18. With QAS, you can also order a copy of your answer sheet for an additional $25 fee.
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<p>I thought QAS only shows the questions and the correct answers and not what the test-taker got correct/wrong or omitted.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to order hand-scoring after detailed explanation on how many questions I got wrong comes out on Saturday. According to my calculations, my Oct. writing test score means I got 14 wrong and I know it's highly unlikely that I got that many questions wrong on the writing section. It's the section I always do best.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about ordering it....I mean collegeboard did screw up once so they could screw up again.</p>
<p>I called CB to request the papers for a hand scoring and the lady said they can only FAX it to me. I don't even have a fax machine. I asked if they could mail it or email it to me and she said no, it has to be faxed. </p>
<p>Who here actually has a fax machine?</p>
<p>Based on the price, that amount of time and difficulty to get a hand scoring verification, makes me wonder how CB actually does their hand scoring.</p>
<p>That's a lie! They don't have to fax it. I also called them today and the lady said she was going to e-mail me the document. I asked if I'd have to fax it back and she said an address for me to mail it back by post would be attached to the document.</p>
<p>^So do you have the documents?</p>
<p>Not yet. (10 char)</p>
<p>So when is QAS supposed to come in the mail? (Or be available online?)</p>
<p>When you do get the documents, would you be willing to email me a copy?</p>
<p>According to this link: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/qas.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/qas.html</a>, QAS is mailed six to eight weeks after the test or after you ordered it. I order it on the 25th when my scores came out and I'll be receiving it November 22nd at the earliest. That's just too far away and I'm already freaking out as it is:eek:. </p>
<p>To Made<em>in</em>China: Yes.</p>
<p>I don't get the point of hand scoring. It's just a way for CB to get some extra money out of you.</p>
<p>Not if you're almost positive they fawked up your scores. They did the same thing in Oct. '05.</p>
<p>^Exactly....They screwed up in Oct. '05 and they still use the same scoring company that messed up</p>
<p>Anyways whats another 50 dollars compared to the hundreds of dollars I'm going to and have spent on application fees, tests, test sending fees, etc.</p>
<p>P.S. I don't trust collegeboard. Theres some shady practices going on. </p>
<p>"- On October 8, 2005, 495,000 high school students from across the nation took the SAT I exam. These test-takers paid a basic fee of $41.50 each and expected accurate scores to be delivered within three to four weeks
- Somehow in the next few days, through a process that has still not been adequately explained, some of the test papers were allegedly contaminated with water. We have heard a variety of explanations for this problem - with all due respect none of them "hold water." If the root cause was heavy rain in the northeast, how were answer sheets from more than 30 states impacted? And, if the issue was humidity at the Austin test-scanning center, why was this a problem during a period of record drought in the area? Moreover, has it not been rainy or humid at hundreds of test centers around the country on every Saturday when the SAT has been administered?
- Soon after receiving their scores in late October, some students began complaining that the results were inaccurate. Several were so sure that errors had occurred that they were willing to request a little known special form from the College Board, wait days to have it delivered, fill it out and pay another $50 to have their tests scored by hand.
- Additional weeks passed before hand scoring took place. The College Board claims the "industry standard" for this process is three to five weeks, hardly an accelerated pace when an important test result is in question.
- Once hand scoring revealed a systematic error, the College Board and Pearson say they began rescanning answer sheets. Somehow this process took another full month, even though the answer sheets were already in their hands.
- During this entire period, as the 2006 admissions season moved into high gear, no warning about this problem was made to test takers, guidance counselors or college officials. Not a word was mentioned at any of the College Board's regional meetings with its members nor to the news media
- Finally on March 6 and 7, 2006, -- five months after the test was administered -- the College Board told its stakeholders about the problem. But they did not tell them the full truth. The initial set of news stories reported that the errors were "less than 100 points."
- Later than week, the College Board changed its story. Rather than "100 points," errors were as large as 400 points.
- Then the next week, another update: 1,600 answer sheets involved in a still unexplained "special exceptions process" at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) had not been rescanned.
- And four days later, yet another correction. Approximately 27,000 more answer sheets had been found by Pearson still not rescanned five and a half months after the tests were administered and at least six weeks after the College Board claims that it first noticed "something odd" in the scoring process."</p>
<p>October '05 Debacle</p>