<p>My D (junior) has an accommodation that gives her a large font answer sheet, i.e. marking boxes with a cross rather than bubbling in. Getting back her test booklet, we noticed that there are at least 6 questions where she circled the correct answer in her test booklet but according to the score report crossed on the wrong answer on her answer sheet; this includes a math question with a free response (calculation 3/4, suposedly bubbled in 0.73). Apparently, someone at CB manually enters the responses from the answer sheet into a computer for scoring. I've been trying to get them to rescore/investigate her answers but have been given the runaround by CB. Either way, there's aproblem: wrong scoring by CB or wrong transferring of answers by D (request for additional time accommodation was denied). As an aside, her PSAT scores are lower than her SAT scores from 9th grade.
Anybody has any similar experience, suggestions, ...?</p>
<p>Sounds like you deserve a rescoring. my D has also been denied extended time. Giving a kid a larger font booklet without extended time just compounds the problem. The thing is too big and unwieldy to work with in the alloted time. We tried for a year to get extended time, and D was given only the enlarged font. The booklet is something like one of those huge maps that you fight with on a trip, or the NY Times. Ridiculous. It was bigger than her desk. I called the ETS again after getting her scores. They were just what i expected...high math and writing and very low cr. 20 point difference. I'm appealing again. I just don't get why they are so difficult with this issue. But I feel for you. They are extremely hard to appeal to. Let me know if you have any luck. I'm so frustrated. She has several schools in mind that she will be unable to consider with this CR score.</p>
<p>I don’t have experience with this issue, and I do agree that you should pursue it with the CollegeBoard. But unless it looks like your D’s PSAT scores, if accurately recorded, would put her in NMSF or Commended range, I wouldn’t worry too much about the scores themselves (as opposed to the problem with the score entry process). Besides helping kids predict SATs, the PSATs function mainly as the screening test for the National Merit program. When it comes to college admissions, they’re not vital. Colleges don't even see them. The important test is the SAT I (or ACT, for kids who go that route). So I agree that the scoring issue should be resolved, but mostly because it might surface again when your D takes the “big test” that is truly important for college admissions purposes. Of course, if you think your daughter might make the cutoff for NM if her scores are corrected, go full steam ahead!</p>
<p>Two issues here:
1. Yes, it would put her into semi-finalist range; but mroe imporatntly:
2. If CB screwed this up when they transferred her answers, we need to decide what to do with respect to her SATs when we DON'T get to see the test booklet. Or, if D can't fill in the boxes properly, we may need to revisit the whole accommodation issue, i.e. fight for extended time to give her more time to check that she indeed crossed on the correct box...</p>
<p>You might try letting her guidance counselor know and handle it through their contacts if your child is at a public HS where the tests are administered. They are usually able to contact the proper administrators directly. I had a problem with obtaining my d's scores, and my d's gc was able to handle it very efficiently.</p>