Old SAT Recycled by College Board

Test Preparation
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<p>This may have been posted somewhere. If so, please ignore.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/30/recycled.sats.ap/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/30/recycled.sats.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>from the CNN article: "But it takes 18 months and 'probably $350,000' to create an entirely new SAT."</p>

<p>That's not an excuse. $350,000 translates into 3-4 man-years of effort. 10,000 test takers @ $41.50 cover that.</p>

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<p>so that means they probably repeat sections or entire tests when the Q and A is offered because the questions will no longer be used again. they probably only make 3 new tests every year wen the q and a isnt offered.</p>

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<p>Even the ACT recycles tests. </p>

<p>My daughter took the October 2004 ACT and then took it again in December 2005. She said that they were exactly the same tests. The December ACT has the optional Q&A (whereas the 10/04 did not) so it makes sense that they would retire that version of the test after 12/05.</p>

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<p>wuts Q and A or wutever and do u kno when this will be repeated again, can i get my hands on past test by any chance?</p>

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<p>Wow, they didn't even bother to change the order of the questions?</p>

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<p>I agree with StAndrews. If they rewrote all 7 tests a year that would be less than $2.5M. The SAT averages about 1.5M test takers a year (@41.50) leading to $62+M. They would have to invest 4% of their revenues to maintain new tests for everyone. That doesn't seem like too much to do.</p>

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<p>but they are lazy u no..lol</p>

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<p>will recycled test have the same curves? Like for the Dec.2005 SATl if -1 in math is 780(lets assume it was the curve) the same test( recycled) for Jan 2007 SATl will have the same score?</p>

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<p>????????????</p>

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<p>CB is just lazy. Not only do they get so much money from registering, but think about score reports and rush reports (which are absoluty ridiculous esp. when ACT charges $13 for the same thing when at CB it is like $45ish).</p>

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<p>CB have to be by far the LAZIEST people on EARTH.......
I could go from Here Until LiKe 2 more pages oF posts talking about how lazy they are........................
look at how LONG It takes them to grade the AP tests for example..........</p>

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<p>any way to take a look at all of the previous tests?? I'm a pretty bad test taker, so I might just memorize some....when did they begin the SAT testing?</p>

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<p>uh..what?? "when did they begin the SAT testing?"????/ </p>

<p>as in like when did the SAT start?</p>

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<p>That article is insane. What the heck?? Totally not fair.</p>

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<p>ya. What year did this system start?</p>