My son took SAT from INDIA and wants to take it again . There is only one chance for him to take this without a conflict with his exams is in August . He is registered as an international student although he is a US citizen since he took the exam from INDIA.
How do we go about registering forSATs in US in August? Will it have any impact on his admissions ?
Any help is appreciated.
Pick a test center and register there. That’s all there is to it. (Lots of people go to Guam for that, btw, since it’s part of the US.)
Looks like there is going to be SAT tourism, especially in August.
There always is. I know dozens of students who go to Guam or Hawaii every spring.
I haven’t had any students travel to the US to take the test in the past. What happens if the test taken in the US then turns up as a recycled test internationally?
The same thing that happens when they recycle questions from one US test to another - nothing.
So College Board does not keep track of the fact that the same student has taken the same test form twice?
No idea, but the fact the College Board recycles tests and questions is their issue and they would have a hard time defending any decision to hold it against a student.
In the past, no, and they’ve gone further–they’ve actively denied that it’s happened, even when students say it has. Reuters has reported on this.
I don’t see how CB can deny that students are repeating test forms given that CB admits that tests are recycled, and that students travel to and from the US to sit the SAT. Isn’t this a logical entailment unless there is a procedure in place to track which test form a student has completed at each sitting, and to make sure that each sitting has a different test form?
While I agree it is not the fault of the student who gets to repeat a test form, and that this is not cheating because it is allowed by all the rules, it is nonetheless really unfair to the other students who do not get this opportunity. “I lost my spot at Harvard to the guy who got to take the same SAT twice”???
“Pre-exposure” was always described by ETS as invalidating the test results.
@Plotinus - totally agree, but they did deny it in a Q&A with adcoms. And of course it’s totally unfair.
(That said, anyone who says “I lost my spot at Harvard…” is an idiot.)
Is there a transcript available of that Q&A? Do you know whether the adcoms pressed CB on the mechanisms in place to avoid repeat test forms? Or did CB just say “it can’t happen” without explaining why not?
Yes, it was a bad joke. However, it is conceivable that someone did or will lose a spot somewhere to someone else because that other person had a repeat test form.
Sorry, @Plotinus, but I don’t remember the details. It’s in one of those Reuters pieces.
Do you have a link to the relevant Reuters article? I thought I had read all of those, but I don’t remember seeing that CB denied that a student could get the same test form twice. I must have missed that.
The story CB told back in 1995 was different – it even offered a free re-test for students who had gotten the same test form twice!
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/29/us/same-sat-version-was-given-twice-college-board-says.html
1995 was a lifetime ago in college admissions terms. What was valid back then may not be true today.
Yes indeedy