<p>My son took the June SAT and today received a letter from the SAT that his scores are delayed while the scores are being investigated. He had an extended time SAT with 50% extra time. He said he did everything the test administrator told him to.</p>
<p>I'm thinking the scores must be higher than his last, or they wouldn't have flagged them. </p>
<p>Anyone else have this experience who can give us advice?</p>
<p>Typically scores only get flagged if they are over 300 points higher than the previous score.
So if your son didn’t cheat, I wouldn’t worry at all and be happy with the score increase you will likely see.</p>
<p>Usually they check the Oath you signed in cursive in order to assure the same person took the test, in which case your son should be fine, assuming it was “your son” who took the test the second time.</p>
<p>how does that work? do they bring a handwriting expert in and compare previous tests to the ‘flagged’ test’? what if you changed your handwriting?</p>
<p>They’ll also look at the tests of all the test takers in the area surrounding his seat. If any of them show statistically significant similar results expect a fight on your hands. They won’t come right out and accuse him of cheating but they can - and will - throw out his scores.</p>
<p>They may allow him to retake it but he won’t have the benefit of super scoring his upcoming applications. </p>
<p>Good luck. If it gets this far, you’re going to need it.</p>
<p>BTW: It happened to the S of a co-worker with a 250 point drop! So who knows what their trigger number is.</p>
<p>WOW weird…so I thought that the SAT Reasoning test was standardized; how come he got 50% extra time?</p>
<p>that allows 50% extra time. He and one other student took the test with one proctor. The girl left about an hour or more before my son. He took all of the time allowed but was by himself in the classroom for the rest of the test. He felt really good about the test too, so we were looking forward to getting the results.</p>
<p>They told us in the letter to wait another two weeks before contacting the SAT, but we are working on early decision for a couple of schools. </p>
<p>This is very frustrating.</p>
<p>Harvard1009 – If I understand OP’s post correctly, a proctor was in the room the entire time… </p>
<p>50% extra time can make a HUGE difference in performance, especially in the reading section. I would think CB is probably trying to verify that the need for 50% additional time is adequately supported by submitted evidence from the school.</p>
<p>Have you been able to see the score online? Or is that what has been delayed? For my SAT I have seen my scores online, but I want to make sure they haven’t been flagged or anything. So if I can see my scores on the collegeboard site, are they not flagged?</p>
<p>Harvard – I agree. If they don’t want the score to stick, they will probe for weakness in the rationale for his being granted 50% extra time.</p>
<p>a letter to them telling them the path we took to get to the 50% extra time, verification from the testing psychologist, and copies of the paperwork that the SAT itself approved. In addition the tech school test administrator where the test was administered gave me information to tell them along with contact information for verification.</p>
<p>They did say the score was higher and outside of the “range.” Hopefully they will believe he scored it on his own.</p>
<p>congrats.</p>
<p>anyone wanna guess what the score will be like? I bet its 2250-2350 (rules are 100 points intervals).</p>
<p>what did he get his first time? when i know his previous score, then I’ll go for an accurate guess.</p>
<p>EDIT: actually, what the hell. i say 2150-2250</p>
<p>I personally hate the whole 50% more time policy. Kids who clearly have no ostensible disability trivialize a system meant to help a small amount of people.</p>
<p>Parents from higher socio-economic backgrounds can’t understand why their son is scoring 500’s and might be, dare I say, it average. No, their son is just overcoming adversity because he has some new illness the drug companies have invented in order to sell a new line of Adderol. The parents pay a psychologist to diagnose him, the kid gets extra time, the drug companies get paid, a win-win. </p>
<p>It is a rather horrible system. Even though the afflictions themselves are vastly different, the solution is the same. Give the kids much more time than they need, so everyone is happy. While all the while kids with respect for the system pay the price.</p>
<p>I am glad the collegeboard is flagging more cases such as this.</p>
<p>^Lol, you know nothing about the kid’s situation. Way to assume.</p>
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Exactly. Neither does collegeboard. That is why they are investigating his scores and condition, assuming there is a “condition”.</p>
<p>^I see your point. However, you are just assuming, based on the high score, that the kid’s parents are purposely cheating the system. Maybe it’s the extent of the 50% policy itself that is the source of the problem. Just because he got a substantially higher score does not mean that he would still have done okay in normal testing conditions. For all we know, he might completely bomb it without the extra time. Perhaps the 50% time extension should be revised to a smaller amount, say 30%. As was already stated, the kid was the only one in the room who took the full time. If there was a lesser amount of extra time given, maybe he wouldn’t have scored so high (presumably in the 2200s range), but he would still have scored higher than if he were not given extra time.</p>
<p>I think CB should create another standardized test identical to the SAT in every way except for the time given, which is extended. This test could be intended specifically for IEP students. That way, the SAT remains standardized and a distinction is made between the different tests.</p>
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<p>I think they are afraid of being sued if they were to do something like that. I mean before they would put down on the score report that the student received extra time, but they got sued and promptly stopped doing that.</p>
<p>Did he also get extra time on the first test?</p>
<p>Really a simple solution is to notate scores that were achieved through “extra time” or other accomodations when the scores are reported as 12etc mentioned. I think that active IEPs and any testing accomodations should be disclosed to colleges. The assumption being that if you need the benefits an IEP gives in high school you will need those same supports in the college to be successful. After that, I personally don’t have a problem with accomodating the learning disabled, but the info should be disclosed with the reporting of the test scores and not treated as “equal” test scores, because, afterall, they are not “equal.” I have an IEP child so I’m not coming out of left field on this. I’m fascinated that someone “sued” CB over this. If you are asking for accomodations then you accept that the situation is not on the same terms as others and it should be disclosed. If everything is on the up and up with the OPs child then they have nothing to worry about.</p>