ETS(collegeboard) makes me so freaking furious !!

[gcf101]

<p>Let’s leave aside whether

@BigIs

the CB is money-hungry blood-sucking corporation

It’s ETS who decides the fate of students’ scores.</p>

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@BigIs

you also need to accept that they would not throw money on an expensive investigation if they didn’t have what they felt were legitimate concerns, risking even more expensive litigation.

From [HorseSense</a> and nonSense](<a href=“http://andyhilbert.blogspot.com/2006/07/exit-exam-debate-heats-up-again-ets_30.html]HorseSense”>HorseSense and Nonsense: Exit Exam Debate Heats Up, Again--ETS Contract in the Background):

ETS … spent $11.1 million to settle a class action suit brought on behalf of 4,100 teachers who “failed” the PRAXIS teacher certification exam when they had actually passed it (a total of 27 thousand teacher candidates received lower scores than they should have and may also be eligible for damages).

Incidentally (from the article [Companies</a> Agree to Pay to Settle SAT Error Suit](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25sat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]Companies”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25sat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)),

Two big testing organizations, the College Board and NCS Pearson Inc., said yesterday that they had agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving more than 4,000 students whose SAT exams were incorrectly scored in 2005.

Can you envision an individual who could file lawsuit against these Goliaths? </p>

<p>

@BigIs

With them, it’s not personal, it’s business.

</p>

<p>From the Princeton Review article [Disputes</a> with ETS](<a href=“SAT Prep Options | SAT Courses | The Princeton Review”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=319&TYPE=LOBBY):

Here’s the nicest thing I can say about ETS–most people who work there genuinely care about being fair and trying to be responsive to students; however, the most well-motivated of ETS employees are stuck within a system that limits their flexibility. ETS has a “party line,” or company attitude, that often dictates what will happen to a test-taker.

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<p>ETS (as well as the College Board) is a company with practically no oversight; why would ETS admit its own fault in investigating students’ scores?</p>

<p>akahmed has proven that it actually might happen, but I think that his story is rather an exception than a rule.
Just read the whole article [Disputes</a> with ETS](<a href=“SAT Prep Options | SAT Courses | The Princeton Review”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=319&TYPE=LOBBY), and you’ll see what hurdles you need to overcome to prove the legitimacy of you results.</p>

[collegelife100]

<p>I am having the same problem . my mom talk with the ETS but it didn’t help , my teacher wanted to talk with them but they don’t want to talk with my teacher . i took my sat in May my score are really low , i was sick and it was my first time but after one month i took it again in june , and they said i got really high score and my test match with someone who seated near me. now they want me to write evidences and send it to them . i don’t know what to write ?can u please help me plzz</p>

[Wordworker]

<p>Do you have access to a lawyer, maybe through a legal services organization or community group? Maybe your local bar association (membership group for lawyers) could refer you to a member who wants to do some volunteer community service. Your teacher could help you to find a free lawyer. ETS doesn’t like lawyers and threats of lawsuits and need to pay large settlements and get bad publicity.</p>

[win2012]

<p>I just had the same thing happen to me. My scores jumped 450 point after preparing for more that 5 months. ETS gathered data, implying that my answers were a carbon copy of someone seated at least 12 - 15 feet behind me! I was told that this person had the same paper as me. How would I have known this beforehand? My parents are supportive and have consulted a lawyer. I am shocked and disqusted how ETS finds data to implicate someone but cannot find any evidence. I would like to get others in the same situation to join this fight.</p>

[win2012]

<p>I am in the same boat. I submitted everything possible. It seems that ETS and college board did not want to review the documents. You may have to get a lawyer! Good luck and I am sorry to hear about this. I feel the pain and torture.</p>

[clienk]

<p>Have you considered just retaking the test? It would probably be easier than fighting them, although you’d probably have to pay for it.</p>

[tokenadult]

<p>Having a really close match with someone else’s answer sheet is amazingly unlikely, </p>

<p>[SAT</a> Guessing](<a href=“http://what-if.xkcd.com/2/]SAT”>SAT Guessing) </p>

<p>although of course if you know the correct answers you will mark the correct answers. </p>

<p>It’s still timely to take the test again if you are applying for college this school year.</p>

[Lelyke]

<p>They shouldn’t jeopardize people’s futures by doing this ****, its really unfair and what if it was the other person who copied and you were unaware. They don’t have the evidence you did that so get a really good lawyer and sue their *ss!</p>