I was wondering, if everyone gets the same question booklet just in a different order, does that mean if you retake the SAT in the same year, you get the same questions?
Wouldn’t this make it possible for someone to just memorize and retake it a few months later to do better?
- no you will not have the same questions. What made you think that?
- you need to practice from real administered test from TCB or from the Blue Book. Learn the basic stuffs from the test.
So there are different SAT forms? I heard that all the questions are the same but scattered throughout the test differently for each person.
This is just out of curiosity, like what if someone happened to get the same exact test questions again
The tests are reused, but not soon enough that you’d have the same test if you took it again that year. Otherwise everyone would have 2400s, and that’s not the case.
You will never have the same questions from an Administered SAT test. TCB make new tests for each month. For internationals students the SAT test sometimes is recycled from undisclosed administered test on the US. But you will never know about the test since TCB will never release those test.
Yes… this is per test date. Meaning that everyone taking the SAT on one given test date will have the same questions, but will be in different orders. This is to make cheating more difficult. Questions are not simply “reused” in a different order on the next test date. There are different tests for each date.
This is true, but last year, for instance, if a student from Korea took the test in the US in May (or March, I forget) and then took it in Asia in January this year, she would have taken the same test.
Correct, except that commentators on CC and other sites typically collect answers.
Once again, the College Board must stop recycling tests.
Actually, there is a possiblilty that you will take the same test twice. One of my friends actually took the SAT in November 2013 and in December 2014 and he said it was the same exact test.
Where did he take both tests?
@sonofgod
The only way he could take similar tests is what @marvin100 said on his post.
Really late but this just happened to me today. Took it for the second time at the same test center and it was the same exact test as it was last time.
I was at a cookout yesterday and 2 kids said they received the same exact test as the one they took in March. Exactly the same. Seemed odd, but they are good students and honest kids, so I doubt they’d lie about something like that. The parents thought that it was odd.
Some students in Reddit discussions reported the same thing.
FWIW, my daughter took the SAT in March and yesterday, and she said that none of the questions were the same. So if it happened, it didn’t happen for everyone…
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My son said he didn’t have any of the same questions either, totally different test. The other 2 kids said they had the exact same test as from March.
No, this never happens in the US. Sometimes the SAT administered in other countries is a strand already given in the US though.
@theshadow, due to what you stated, the test stopped being fair to all test takers, which defeats the whole purpose of the test.
Did someone call College Board to make them aware of the issue? They should know anyway, right?
My son took the ACT yesterday (June 11) and said it was the exact same test he took in February. Of course he doesn’t want to report it, but I’m concerned it will cancel his scores and he will be accused of cheating if he doesn’t tell someone. I can’t find any rules on this situation.