<p>If a student feels that an error may have been made on a particular section of their exam (ie. lets say that their math section was 150 points lower than expected, and the digital scan sent home showed omits for example that the student knows they did not make, or the student gets the question and answer service if it is available, and believes they got the problems right) how can the student ever really know that Collegeboard upon getting their $50.00 and the rescoring request form, really tracked down their answer sheet as they are supposed to do, and matched it up with the answer sheet stencil for that particular exam, to see if they in fact erred in scoring this students exam?
I have read a post by someone on collegeconfidential who took the October exam and was sure there was an error in his math score as his score had dropped 150 points from a previous month and he had thought he had done great, and paid the $50.00, only to receive a letter in the mail that collegeboard found nothing wrong with the scoring, and that his current scores were his actual scores or something to that affect. Months later that student was notified by collegeborad that he was actually in the group of 4,000 students whose scores were reported wrong. That student indicated on Collegeconfidential that he is sure that when he paid his initial $50.000 for the rescoring that collegeboard never bothered to track down his answer sheet and stencil, but merely looked at the digital scan which is sent home as part of the answer service, and which he himself had at home, and just confirmed that score - either because they were lazy or not truthful.
So the question is, since we see or know of no proof, how do we know when we request a rescoring and pay for it, that the exam will actually be handscored as per their claimed protocol?</p>
<p>We don't know.
Butknowing the collegeboard they probably just take the $50 and send a form letter.
After last October they might be more carefull about rechecking... but then they might not want people to know about the mistakes either...
So there's really no way of knowing.</p>
<p>This worries me.
I took the April Test, and my math score was a good 100 points lower than what I was expecting. On the score report, it says I omitted 11...which I definitely did not. I sent it in for handscoring...
I hope everything gets fixed =/</p>
<p>jrg6. While I think it is difficult to prove that they made an error, I think you have more of a chance to get it fixed if you know for a fact that you did not omit the questions. I dont really know the answer as to how truthful they are because I myself am posting the question in the first post, hoping someone knows.
Perhaps if you already sent in the form you can write a letter indicating that you know you did not omit the number they said you did, and if they could kindly make sure they use the stencil to check against your answer sheet rather than just looking at the ditigal sheet. If you ask specifically, maybel they will feel guilty if they were going to be lazy and not do that</p>
<p>jrg6... me too. Supposedly, I left 11 blank on the April test (I thought I had left 6 which I felt was pushing it, but decided to leave them blank). If it's not too late, I'm going to try to have it re-scored, I've honestly been too scared that the 5 missing questions, if I was right, would end up being wrong or something... I doubt I left that many blank, though.</p>
<p>The collegeboard says you have up to five months to request rescoring.</p>
<p>wouldn't it be easier if you just studied really hard for the next test and got a better grade abd if the same thing happens again; file a complaint or something?</p>
<p>it's probably cheaper to retake for the higher score, but I think it's more about principle</p>
<p>miss independent...it's interesting that the same thing happened to you too! im in new york also, by the way. anyway, that makes you the 3rd other person i've heard of who has had this problem. anyone else hear of anyone else having something like this happen from the april test?</p>
<p>as for me, i really hope the handscoring provides positive results...even though it'd be cheaper, i really do not want to go through the sat studying and testing process again, especially because i did very well on the other two parts. I would much rather spend my time over the summer doing something else rather than taking endless practice tests and memorizing vocab. pretty much, i hate the sats and hope i dont have to worry about taking them again, especially due to a mistake from collegeboard.</p>