<ol>
<li>Not only ACT not doing anything about the increasing score, they must also accept the same test booklet for the same person over and over again. How can that be?
2,6. You got a chance to participate, but you didn’t take the test, which is it?</li>
<li>Each student must pay a fee (not the school) through the website. They each must register individually according to the instruction.</li>
<li>Also how can ACT not suspicious about a huge number of people getting perfect score at your school? Perfect score is greater than 99 percentile. Again unless ACT is in collusion with your school and your counselor.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>The ACT grades the answer sheet, not the booklate, they just have a machine getting the answersheet, they match it with the righ test, so they are never going to know that they resued the same test.</li>
<li>Everyone in my High School got a chance to participate, I decided that it was just unfair.</li>
<li>I know, the protactor told them that they had to pay less, so they used that to ratonalized what they were doing (is the same test because is cheaper, so is fair)</li>
<li>That is my complain, where can I go to?</li>
</ol>
<p>School name, and country? PM if you wish.</p>
<p>I will be risking too much If I tell you that, tell me where to go and send that information so somethign can be done</p>
<p>Again, my suggestion is to get an adult to help you. Some suggest that you talk to NYTimes, but at some point, you will need a more believable voice if this is true. Maybe some reporter for a newspaper in your country. You also are going to provide a more concrete proof like names and schools of people involved. What you said so far cannot be distinguished from a far fetched made up story because ACT is obviously looking the other way for this to happen.</p>
<p>Dear Miss XXXX: </p>
<p>Because all my questions have remained unanswered, and because I still hope I can get an answer, I will again ask some of the same questions I have been asking now for 4 months.</p>
<p>I think I may understand that at ACT you must be very careful about what information you mail.
But, I can not understand why it took me over three months to convince ACT start an investigation. I repeatedly warned you that unless you investigated promptly, students were going to enter top schools with ACT scores obtained dishonestly. By now, given how long you took to react, damage is multiplying. If we wait until classes begin, things will only get worst. Universities should at the very least be informed about the risk of irregularities so that they can themselves decide what actions to take in order to safeguard their admission process.</p>
<p>I remain absolutely blind on whether or not ACT is taking the actions
to stop cheaters. I do not know :
1-If the investigation finished.
2-Whether you did or not find evidence of irregular behaviour
3-Whether you searched for the remaining names of cheaters (I only
mailed you a partial list of names),
Is ACT is reacting and thoroughly investigating? In your investigation, was there evidence of cheating?</p>
<p>Please let me know if you received this mail. I hope I do not have to
use more of my time solving a problem ACT should solve, but silencing this will only imply that these irregular practices will multiply.
Please be aware that the situation is rather public for maybe a hundred or so, including teachers, students, parents and friends. If no action is taken, it will be rather strange.</p>
<pre><code> Sincerely,
</code></pre>
<p>XXXXX</p>
<p>PD: below I enclose some of the previous mails. The initial mails (our first mail was dated April 15, 2008) are not included, if you need a copy please let me know.</p>
<p>On 7/29/08, <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> wrote:</p>
<pre><code>Dear XXXX,
I apologize for the delay in responding to your message. We
appreciate both you and Mr. XXXX bringing your concerns to the
attention of ACT and providing the names of students potentially
involved in a test security issue. However, the ACT Test Security
department does not release information concerning possible
investigations or provide information on examinees who may be involved
in a test security case. Because of confidentiality, we cannot
provide you with any details regarding the matter noted below or
information concerning the ACT testing center.
Sincerely,
XXXXXX
Manager, ACT Test Administration
</code></pre>
<p>XXXXX></p>
<p>07/29/2008 11:56 AM To
“<a href="mailto:osus@act.org”>osus@act.org</a>" <osus@act.org>
cc</osus@act.org></p>
<pre><code> Subject
Re: Test Item Questions
Dear ACT Administrator:
Could you please inform me if I should wait for an answer? I would
also welcome a name, a telephone number and to know whether I am now
exchanging mails with someone who has authority and responsability
over issues like the ones I have described.
sincerely yours
</code></pre>
<p>XXXXX</p>
<pre><code>On 7/22/08, XXXX> wrote:
Dear ACT Administrator:
I am very worried about the speed you are carrying out your
investigation. There are some urgent matters that must be addressed.
As a former student at Stanford and Berkeley, I am very concerned
that there are students about to start at top schools with ACT scores
obtained dishonestly. The names officially provided by XXXX on where these students are going to study include Stanford, Columbia and U Penn.
I am similarly concerned about the other students who cheated. I only
provided four names, but I did mention that these were only some. I
feel you must go through all those who took ACT more than once along
the years 2006 and 2007
I am equally concerned about what you plan to do with those
responsible for the leak and/or mistake both in the USA and in XXXX.
You can call me or contact me any time in the following number:
XXXX
Sincerely yours
XXXXX
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: osus@act.org <osus@act.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2008 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Test Item Questions
To: XXXXX
XXXXX,
We have forwarded your concerns to our Test Security department and
they
will contact you if they have questions. We thank you for your time
in
sending us this information, but since we are not researching your
test
scores, you will not be privy to the outcome.
I can assure you that we do not use the same tests over and over
again, and
I believe that is what you originally asked us about.
Thanks,
ACT Test Administration
</code></pre>
<p>XXXX
To
<a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a>
07/20/2008 05:07
cc
PM</p>
<pre><code>Subject
Re: Test Item Questions
Dear ACT Administration:
Who in the Test Security department is now in charge of this
investigation?
How do I contact her (him) ?
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:37 PM, <osus@act.org> wrote:
Thank you. I will forward this email to our Test Security department.
ACT Test Administration
XXXX
To
“osus@act.org” <osus@act.org>
06/27/2008 05:26
cc
PM
Subject
Re: Test Item Questions
Dear ACT Administration:
Here are some of the names of students who increased their scores from
reasonably good to very high as they reiterated their tests and whose
ACT
scores show no relation with their SAT scores. I hope I am wrong!
</code></pre>
<p>XXXXX
XXXXX
XXXXX
XXXXX</p>
<pre><code> Thanks for your inquiry!
What you are describing below is a test security issue. In order to
look
into this further, we would need to have the names of those students
you
speak of, who’s scores went up dramatically. Neither staff or
students
have enough access to test booklets to make their scores rise
dramatically,
which makes this a security issue.
I also can assure you that the same ACT International exam is not
repeated
again and again.
Please let me know if you have more specific information for us.
Thanks,
ACT Test Administration 06/16/2008 08:15
cc
AM
Subject
Re: Test Item Questions
Dear ACT Administration:
Thanks for your last answer, but we now face very serious
discrepancies.
I began this exchange of mails with ACT over 2 months ago by saying
that believed a situation as was described by a friend could not be true.
By now I have learned that ACT does repeat, some way or another, exams
in some international centers. There is a cost issue here, and there may be a
security issue, but there must be better ways to handle this. (which
I believe is incorrect) But, what happened in Santiago was far beyond repeating a previous
exam from another center. The test (alternating with and without writing)
repeated the questions 4 times or more. This can not the your
standard procedure even if your procedure involves repeating ACT tests in
international centers: someone did a mistake that went much beyond
the norm. And, by assuring us that no one had an unfair advantage, you
must be be misinformed. If you contact those that took the ACT you will
learn that what I have written is correct: most are very honest and will tell
you the truth.
Inaction by may soon start causing damage to colleges: what about
those that are now about to start college at places way beyond what there
initial scores or SAT scores would have gotten them into?
I still feel my main initial question remains unanswered, and I do
not see why there may be a privacy issue involved in your answer: is it
true that half a dozen students that scored average in there 1st ACT, changed
to 32-36 as they repeated their ACT again and again?
I have written to the Department of Education. They answered that
ACT should be the one that should handle the situation that I have
described.
Please do.
Sincerely yours,
XXXXX.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, wrote:
XXXX,
I did not understand why you were asking such specific questions
about a
test you do not plan on taking. I apologize for assuming that you
were
going to use this information to benefit your test taking.
I wish I could tell you more about our past tests, but it is not
ACT’s
policy to discuss our test stratagies.
If your friend has a specific question about a test that was taken,
please
have them contact ACT directly, I can assure you that the exams were
not
compromised in any way.
Thanks so much!
ACT Test Administration
</code></pre>
<hr>
<p>---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Department of Education <a href="mailto:education@custhelp.com">education@custhelp.com</a>
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Subject: I have mailed repeatedly a complain to ACT Test Administrator about the test … [Incident: 080607-000008]
To: XXXXX</p>
<p>Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support
center. Below is a summary of your request and our response.</p>
<p>If this issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may reopen it
within the next 14 days.</p>
<p>Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.</p>
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<h2>Subject</h2>
<p>I have mailed repeatedly a complain to ACT Test Administrator about the test …</p>
<h2>Discussion Thread</h2>
<p>Response (Luisa Atkinson) - 06/16/2008 02:55 PM
Dear Mr. XXXX:</p>
<p>Thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of Education.</p>
<p>As I mentioned previously, the U.S. Department of Education does not investigate the internal workings of private companies. I am unaware of any government agency that investigates the services of companies operating in other countries. I would recommend that you contact the Federal Citizen Information Center for information on whether any agency of the U.S. Government would investigate this case. You can reach them by phone at 1-888-878-3256 or by email by visitinghttp://<a href=“Pueblo.GPO.gov Main Page”>www.pueblo.gsa.gov/emailus.htm</a> and entering your question.</p>
<p>Once again, thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of Education. If we can provide further assistance, please do not hesitate to write us again or call, toll-free, 1-800-USA-LEARN (800-872-5327) Monday-Friday between 9:00 and 5:00 Eastern Time.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>xxxxx
Information Resource Specialist</p>
<p>Information Resource Center
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-0498
(800) USA-LEARN</p>
<p>Customer - 06/16/2008 09:19 AM
Dear Mrs. Atkinson:</p>
<p>Thanks for your prompt answer. I have tried for over 2 months to have ACT
investigate whether complains. They have not, or if they have, they have
not given any evidence on any direction. By now almost a dozen seniors only
in XXXX may be going to college with scores obtained using unfair means.
That can not be the right way. Can you tell me where I should write so that
someone can try to stop these things from repeating themselves again? Given
that the problem probably originates in a cost related issues (developing
more original ACT exams) , they may be repeating exams all along the
international ACT centers. That means hundreds or thousands of students
per year that may have unfair advantages.</p>
<p>Hoping that you can help us,</p>
<p>truly your,
XXXXX.</p>
<p>On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Department of Education <
<a href="mailto:education@custhelp.com">education@custhelp.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p>Response (xxxx) - 06/09/2008 10:38 AM
Dear XXXX:</p>
<p>Thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of Education.</p>
<p>The ACT test is not administered by the U.S. Department of Education. It is administered by a private company that is not affiliated with the Department. The U.S. Department of Education does not regulate the operations of testing companies. If you have concerns about the administration of this test, you will need to address them with the company directly.</p>
<p>Once again, thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of Education. If we can provide further assistance, please do not hesitate to write us again or call, toll-free, 1-800-USA-LEARN (800-872-5327) Monday-Friday between 9:00 and 5:00 Eastern Time.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>xxxxxx
Information Resource Specialist</p>
<p>Information Resource Center
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-0498
(800) USA-LEARN</p>
<p>Customer - 06/07/2008 11:01 AM
I have mailed repeatedly a complain to ACT Test Administrator about the test center in XXXX, that apparently repeated the same test 4 times between 2006 and 2007 year. This implied unfair scores for those that
a)cheated by preparing the questions beforehand (it became known that the ACT repeated itself)
b)for those that without knowing in advance, had the advantage of facing the same questions more than once.
ACT, in their mails, denies that the exam was compromised in any form in the XXXX test center in 2006 and 2007.
But this contradicts what too many high-school seniors are saying did happen. ACT only answer is that: the exam was not compromised and that all information concerning exams ands exam policy is confidential.
Whom can I complain about this? Who can verify that ACT Administrator does investigate whether this happened or not?
I attach mails between me and ACT Administrator.</p>
<p>Thanks
XXXXX</p>
<p>Auto-Response - 06/07/2008 11:01 AM
Your question has been received. You should expect a response from us
within 5 business days.</p>
<p>[—001:004063:06345—]</p>
<p>from XXXXX>
to xxxxxx
date Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:41 AM
subject Re: ACT Test items question
mailed-by gmail.com</p>
<pre><code>hide details 6/4/08
</code></pre>
<p>Dear ACT Administrator:</p>
<p>Your last reply was very disturbing.</p>
<p>1-It is beyond my comprehension why after denouncing to ACT Administrator that maybe the ACT in XXXXX was compromised by dishonest behavior, you try to discourage me from planning a dishonest action (quote your mail): “but if you take their advice and study their answers, you will be VERY disappointed in your score.” What is meant by “your score”? I do not plan to cheat nor do I plan to take the test. </p>
<p>2-By no means do I want to (personally) use any unfair advantage, trick o dishonest procedure. Nor do I want to advice any friend nor anyone on how to cheat. I want the very opposite: to denounce those procedures and hope ACT will investigate if this led to some cheaters scoring 32-36 points after they repeated the same (or very similar) exam 2-4 times,</p>
<p>3-I do not understand why you tell me what I can talk or not, and to whom about ACT. The student and parent I personally know, with whom I write these mails and who read your answers, never cheated in your exam (nor any other), but feel that if they provide their names and data to ACT these may fall back to the hands of those that maybe compromised the exam. I also ask you to keep my name and my phone number confidential. </p>
<p>4-We tried to understand why (quote your sentence) “For your specific information, the first sentence of this email should tell you the answer you need to know”, meant an answer to our questions. We could not.</p>
<p>5-What students are now saying is that you finally changed the test this last time.</p>
<p>Hoping to get an answer to our questions and doubts,</p>
<p>sincerely,</p>
<p>XXXX.
- Hide quoted text -</p>
<hr>
<p>On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:56 PM, <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> wrote:
XXXXX,</p>
<p>Please be aware that these students may be telling you this, but if you
take their advice and study their answers, you will be VERY disappointed in
your score.</p>
<p>It is not your place to get or give information to other students about the
ACT, so if someone is concerned, they would need to contact us directly.</p>
<p>For your specific information, the first sentence of this email should tell
you the answer you need to know</p>
<p>Thanks,
ACT Test Administration</p>
<hr>
<pre><code> XXXX To: “osus@act.org” <osus@act.org>
om> cc:
Subject: ACT Test items question
05/28/2008 12:34
PM
</code></pre>
<p>Dear ACT Administrator:</p>
<p>Thanks for your last answer. I do not want nor need any specific
information on ACT tests. I understand and know that you take all the
care to avoid providing any undue advantage to any students. Yet, I also
know that under some circumstances a subgroup of students may try to take
undue and dishonest advantage of loopholes and mistakes that the system
sometimes can not avoid.
What some seniors are saying in XXXX is that for unspecified
circumstances ACT repeated the same (or very similar) test a number of
times during 2007 and or 2006-2007. This information leaked and some (by
no means all) students organized themselves and cheated by dishonestly
searching the answers beforehand. These students may have increased their scores
form normal to 96, 98, 99 or 99.999% (32-36) as they repeated their
ACT.</p>
<p>Maybe those that are saying that this happened are terribly confused and
nothing happened at all. But if some students did use a dishonest
advantage to score better than the rest, then it is unfair.
If you are sure that these seniors are indeed wrong, then please say so
and I will tell them that ACT feels this is impossible.</p>
<p>If not, then a (confidential and internal) analysis by ACT to show that
ACT scores in XXXXX in 2007 behaved as test center normally behave, that
there was no undue surge in scores from those that repeated the test,
would suffice.</p>
<p>truly yours,
XXXXX.</p>
<hr>
<p>On 5/6/08, <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> wrote:
Dear XXXX,</p>
<p>Information concerning ACT test forms and test items is proprietary and
confidential. ACT takes great care in protecting the security and
integrity of the test to ensure a fair and equitable test administration
for all examinees - on all test dates, at all test centers. No
students
taking the ACT International test in XXXX have an advantage over
another
student taking the test at an alternate center in XXXX or students
taking
the test in a different county.</p>
<p>We appreciate you writing to us with your concerns, however, we will not
provide you with any information concerning specific test items. If you
or
your friend have any additional questions concerning ACT International
testing, we would be happy to address those.</p>
<p>Thanks,
ACT Test Administration</p>
<hr>
<pre><code> XXXXXX To: “osus@act.org” <
</code></pre>
<p><a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a>>
om> cc:
Subject: Re: ACT Test
items question
05/05/2008 05:19
PM</p>
<p>I do not understand your answer. What should I do about the repeated
information that ACT in XXXX repeated a major share of the questions
several times during 2007? Is it true or false? Or, are you
investigating</p>
<h2> this?</h2>
<p>On 4/22/08, <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> <a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a> wrote:
Thanks for your inquiry.</p>
<pre><code>The information I have given you is accurate, all other information
concerning testing content is confidential.
Thanks,
ACT Test Administration
</code></pre>
<hr>
<pre><code> XXXXX To: “osus@act.org”
</code></pre>
<p><
<a href="mailto:osus@act.org">osus@act.org</a>>
om> cc:
Subject: Re: ACT Test
items question
04/22/2008 08:23
AM</p>
<pre><code>PLease let me know if you are receiveing my messages. I have further
comments and further and disturbing evidence.
thanks.
</code></pre>
<hr>
<pre><code>On 4/15/08, osus@act.org <osus@act.org> wrote:
Thanks for your inquiry, XXXX!
It is true that our XXXX center gave the exam 4 times in 2007, but it
is
NOT true that those four tests dates had the same ACT exam questions.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Thanks,
ACT Test Administration
1-800-553-6244 x1510
</code></pre>
<hr>
<pre><code>You wrote:
General Feedback submitted on Monday, April 14.
Name: XXXXX
Email: XXXXX
Comments:
I friend has insisted that in XXXX the ACT repeated exactly the same
test
(question by question) along 2007(4 times?). I think it is
</code></pre>
<p>impossible.
He
insists it is so. can you inform me?</p>
<p>Letter from a student counselor to me
Dr. XXXX
To XXXX</p>
<p>dateSat, May 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM
subjectRe: <no subject=“” found=“”></no></p>
<p>hide details May 2 </p>
<p>XXXX,</p>
<p>Thanks for the email and information about your debate with your associate and his/her call to ACT services. As you asked and correctly stated; I can confirm that at no time did I ever receive any money, thank yous, gifts, or anything else in exchange for letting a student take the same ACT test again (or any other sort of advantages).</p>
<p>With ACT services policy in the past, it was standard practice that ACT international test centers would keep the same test books (per ACT policy), and reuse (as long as they were in new condition), the same test booklets throughout the testing year. This would result in some students verbally noting and recognizing that they were taking the “same test again”, which they were per ACT policy. This is one of the reasons that a student could not sit for the ACT a second time at the same test center within a specified amount of time (I think it was 30-days back then). Per ACT policy, at the end of the testing year all test books were returned and/or destroyed…</p>
<p>During the last/current testing year, ACT has revised their procedures to be similar to the SAT procedures, where all test books are returned to ACT after each test. Then new test books are sent out again before each test administration.</p>
<p>Again thanks for contacting me. In the future feel-free to contact me at anytime you would have any questions about the college admission process in the United States. In this day and age, U.S. college admissions is a very very stressful process and there are many many different rumors, beliefs, concerns, etc. about the process.</p>
<p>Warm Regards,</p>
<p>XXXXX</p>
<hr>
<p>Dr. XXXXX</p>
<hr>
<p>Original Message:
From: XXXXX
To: Dr.XXXX
Cc:
Date: Saturday, May 2 2009 8:08 PM
Subject: <no subject=“” found=“”>
May 2, 2009</no></p>
<p>Dear Dr. XXXX;</p>
<p>In a conversation with a fellow professor (few months ago) about the ACT test in XXXX as an alternative to the SAT, we had a heated discussion on the issue on how and why the test could repeat itself 4 times in a row. </p>
<p>As a consequence of that conversation, he contacted ACT officials, who at the end contacted me and asked me a very long set of questions.</p>
<p>The most disturbing question I was asked was whether I thought you had received money as a payment for allowing the same students to take the same test many times. I said I was absolutely certain that you had never received any money from either students or parents, or any other source. I was very disturbed by this question, so I believe I repeated three or four times that I was thoroughly convinced this had not been the case.</p>
<p>I also added that your policy had never been to keep the issue secret or underground, and that it was discussed by you with students in public, demanding them to avoid repeating tests in a row.</p>
<p>Finally, when asked my opinion on how and why this had happened, I said that my feeling on the issue was that someone in the ACT bureaucracy had messed things up and never sent a new set of tests.</p>
<p>Though I remain and will remain committed to what I said above, I would much appreciate it if you could reassure me that things were how I described them above and not otherwise.</p>
<p>Truly yours</p>
<p>XXXXX</p>
<p>Well, you have been very unprofessional in your e-mails top the ACT company. I simply would have not responded if I were in their place.</p>
<p>So all the damage was done in 2007? It at least appears from the last two emails dated in 2009 that the ACT was taking action and talking to someone who confirmed the repetition of the same test. It´s all very confusing… It sounds like the beneficiaries must be enrolled in college right now.</p>
<p>And who is the guy that went to Stanford and Berkeley? I would send the whole email trail to NYTimes education reporter.</p>
<p>Like Wildwood said, it seems to have been corrected, what else is in it for you going forward? Or is it still happening today?</p>
<p>Drop it. ACT told you that they investigated and didn’t find any problems. They also told you that they’re not going to tell you anything about their investigation. You didn’t seem to understand their answers.</p>
<p>Ineedhelp89: Just forget about it. There is nothing you can do. This has happened in some comminuties before. Usually it is in a community that is popular with retired members of the 1970s Trilateral Commission members or the Masons (or both). theyhave their plants in all the testing services to ensure that their grandkids get into all the best schools. The best thing to do is line the walls, ceiling and floor of your room with aluminum foil. If they can’t read your thoughts, they will never send the black helocopters.</p>
<p>^ That is good advice.</p>
<p>LOL glido.</p>
<p>Ineedhelp89: How many more years are you going to be consumed with this? It’s time to get on with your life.</p>
<p>The things is that it may still be happening. My High School also had an IB cheating scandal. You are right, if its over, who cares, but what if it isn’t?</p>
<p>It seems to me that the colleges which are taking students with supposedly fraudulent test scores would be the ones most concerned about fraud.</p>
<p>glido, you know that your post above means that the black helicopters will be coming for you any moment now, right? :)</p>
<p>the school is still sending students to top colleges. The student sample is the same. That means that there is a big chance that they are sending student with fradulent scores</p>
<p>I think that posters have been too quick to dismiss Ineedhelp89’s concerns. There have been several comments made that indicate these posters do not know how the ACT is administered. Please show more respect on a public forum. I can only hope that the level of disrespect displayed here was not engendered by the fact that English is clearly not the OP’s first language. </p>
<p>I administered ACT’s for several years in a center outside the US and can therefore verify some of what the OP has written. ACT policies, for at least my country, changed a couple of years ago and possibly those changes were in response to the OP’s concerns or someone with similar concerns. </p>
<p>My instructions as an ACT administrator formerly told me to retain the test books for use in future testing dates. At the end of the testing year, the books were to be destroyed rather than returned to the US. I was usually sent a box of more books than I would use on a single testing date. The test books were sent in groups of 20 or 40 and sometimes my centre only had 5 or 6 students testing. My centre only tested once a year, so none of the books was ever used again. As the OP mentions, only the answer sheets were shipped to the US for scoring. </p>
<p>The ACT has generally been considerably less expensive for international students than the SAT. I assumed that at least part of the saving was related to the reduced mailing costs incurred by ACT (no separate monthly international mailing of heavy test books out to the testing center and then back to ACT for destruction). </p>
<p>I was somewhat concerned about the possibility of someone writing the same test twice given the policy, but given that my center only tested once a year and there were no close centers, the concern did not apply to the students I tested. I assumed that ACT had measures in place to guarantee that a student would never receive the same questions twice.</p>
<p>Students record the form of the test that they are taking on their answer sheets. I assume that ACT would have its scoring computers programmed to ensure that any student that took the same form of their test would not have their answers scored the second time. If the OP is correct, then I am wrong in my assumption.</p>
<p>Presently in my country ACT does require that all test booklets be returned immediately following testing along with the answer sheets. </p>
<p>I think that the OP has been trying to do something honourable. While certainly it is too late to fix the past wrong, publicizing defects in testing administration can prevent future wrongs.</p>
<p>Ineedhelp89, your best course of approach is to work on your English, which will help YOU get the ACT / SAT scores of your choice. Right now, it is still unintelligible and I can’t figure the story out.</p>
<p>Your attitude towards the ACT is a non-productive one. You act as though they owe you an investigation. You made them aware of the issue; that’s all you can do. Time to move on.</p>
<p>I 100% agree with Pizzagirl. You could have studied for the ACT during the time you “wasted” and received a good score. You should be more prudent next time.</p>
<p>Ineedhelp, here are examples of how you did not communicate in a professional manner:</p>
<p>"I am very worried about the speed you are carrying out your
investigation. "</p>
<p>Really? Who are you to tell them at what speed they should progress? How arrogant.</p>
<p>"
As a former student at Stanford and Berkeley, I am very concerned
that there are students about to start at top schools with ACT scores
obtained dishonestly."</p>
<p>Why would a Stanford or Berkeley grad be “more important” to the ACT people than just any old person? Why does it matter if it’s people going to “top” schools or not? Presumably the ACT wants to have fair, equitable testing for all students – those going to “top” schools aren’t any more or less important than anyone else.</p>
<p>“I do not understand why you tell me what I can talk or not, and to whom about ACT. The student and parent I personally know, with whom I write these mails and who read your answers, never cheated in your exam (nor any other), but feel that if they provide their names and data to ACT these may fall back to the hands of those that maybe compromised the exam.” AND "I still feel my main initial question remains unanswered, and I do
not see why there may be a privacy issue involved in your answer: is it
true that half a dozen students that scored average in there 1st ACT, changed
to 32-36 as they repeated their ACT again and again?</p>
<p>They’ve TOLD you, repeatedly, that they will not discuss other people’s ACT scores (etc) with you, and that if those people have an issue, THEY should contact the ACT. You refuse to hear it. You are not entitled to know if there are other students whose ACT scores increased. Even if they went from 24 to 36. Even if you took the test at the same testing center. Why don’t you understand that other people’s ACT scores aren’t your concern or business at all?</p>