<p>In other words, there have been an elite class getting a black market special advantage for years…Great.</p>
<p>Doinschool: if you think about it, wealthy people have always had a huge advantage over others. They have access to test prep programs, tutors, books, all that pizazz that some poorer folks might not have.</p>
<p>This is on a different level. A poor kid can still buy the blue book and take all the practice tests if he/she really has the drive and determination. The College Board is practically endorsing elitism with their cheapo policy of reusing tests.</p>
<p>Oh come on… Do you think tutors don’t use older QAS? Of course they do.
They use unreleased tests instead of the released ones. Rich kids are lucky bastards.</p>
<p>True. Having QAS will get you no where near 2400 if no hard work is put in. But I feel that with extra QAS you can better guage your actual score since its a real test administered with the definite scores instead of a range.</p>
<p>Btw webass, if tutors really use older QAS, then I guess the illegal part of the whole QAS thing is kinda moot eh. </p>
<p>Even if it is not restricted to tutors only, it is not uncommon that a friend ordered a QAS and lets you have a look at it.</p>
<p>Private tutors don’t care, I wouldn’t care neither.
Psshh, I would go against CB’s rules for a bright future.</p>
<p>They have a history of recycling tests. I read about it some time long ago, but I didn’t believe the actual exam I took was actually a reused exam. Also, they claim they recycle tests in order to keep the price down.</p>
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<p>ETS people are experts; they can make an entire test in one-two days if they want.</p>
<p>Keep the price down? I can’t believe they said that. They are earning loads each year and they still need to keep the price down? Amazing.</p>
<p>It is impossible that QAS tests will be reused.</p>
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Isn’t that the whole point of using QAS or any other CB source, afterall? Practicing with QAS is fair game to everyone, since collegeboard will NOT reuse any of the QAS questions.</p>
<p>I just remembered that CB recycling questions isn’t actually new to me. In October 2008 I think, the SAT i took was reused in a Nov Sunday international SAT since the answers posted on this board were the same.</p>
<p>^ The latest Blue Book only gives 3 actual tests which have definite scores when you score yourself. The other 7 tests gives you a range of possible scores. I am convinced that the College Board will NOT reuse their released QAS so far. But what about the ones which they didn’t intend to release and were obtained by others?</p>
<p>^Yes, that is certainly not a good thing for the CB. Generally, questions are re-used several times (in non-QAS months); a leak of a non-QAS test would be a real problem, even if the re-use time frame is a year or more, and especially so if that test were re-used in its entirety. The leak could be internal, or, I suppose, someone (student? proctor?) with nefarious motives could somehow steal a test booklet from a test center.</p>
<p>That s what I think happened with the November 2005 test. I am still hazy on how people got that test. who found it. I am pretty sure that test shouldn’t have been released.</p>
<p>Do you think CB is really able to collect the entire 100% of millions of SAT exams back after the test is over? Proctors can also somehow scan the exam and return the original copy. Students, when they come from a group or an organization, can also memorize exam questions(I’ve heard this before, not sure if its actual real, but I can definitely memorize a good portion of the exam). Possibilities of leaking an exam exist in many cases, yet CB still chose to recycle it.</p>
<p>After reading through the thread once more, I realized that I had a misconception about the SAT QAS. </p>
<p>I thought that every SAT test had QAS released. Then I realized that only certain months of the SAT was QAS released and CB never recycles released tests.</p>
<p>I guess then practicing with QAS is fine but the way one obtains it is another matter.</p>