Yay, a lawsuit finally!
http://www.nj.com/education/2015/06/sat_error_class_action_lawsuit_june_6_test_nj.html
I walked out of that test feeling pretty confident but my scores dropped insanely! My math score dipped below 700 for the first time EVER and my CR didn’t improve at all even though I felt better about it than last time. I’m so disappointed I don’t even know what to say…
@bread07 my math score dipped below 700 for the first time too… I couldn’t believe it. Usually I get perfect or near perfect. Also I just recently received a 36 on ACT math. I’m kinda suspicious of this sat report.
My psat was 240, my practice tests were around 1900 or 2000, then I scored a 2290.
@Archlion I’m suspicious as well! The scores were not at all consistent with my past performance. Do you know if we can have the free October test offered replace the June one (I’m hopeful but kind of doubtful)?
I contacted the College Board today after emailing about the free October test and being given a phone number to call for Customer Service. They registered my daughter for the 10/3 test (took about 20 minutes) and it appeared in the registrations on College Board immediately. Overall a smooth experience, but as of yet they certainly aren’t working it into the online registration system as when I went to do it myself - it wasn’t free.
The email I received:
" Thank you for contacting the College Board.
We have received your e-mail in regards to the June SAT test. We will be more than happy to assist you.
We remain confident in the reliability of scores from the June 6 administration of the SAT and don’t want to cause undue anxiety for students by making them believe they need to sit for the test again. We will waived the fee for the October SAT administration for students who let us know that their testing experience was negatively affected by the printing error.
Please be advised, in order to register for the October test without a fee, you must call our Customer Service Center at one of the numbers listed below. A Customer Service Agent will be able to assist you.
We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.
For further information or assistance, please feel free to call us at 1 (866) 756-7346 (Domestic), 001 (212) 713-7789 (International), Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) or visit us at www.collegeboard.org.
Thank You,
Mary Price
Agent 203225
The College Board Service Center"
I was rushed as well!
Yes, this is complete BS. The full score report is available today. The College Board is terrible at computing scores with less available answers to calculate with; I got 35 of the 38 available math questions right AND YET SOMEHOW TO THESE IMBECILES THAT EQUATES TO A 690??? 3 QUESTIONS WRONG IS A 690??? Okay, maybe that would be fair if the math section truly was out of 38 questions; less possible answers means getting just 1 answer wrong has more of an impact than on a section that is out of 54 questions. But guess what, College Board, THIS SECTION USUALLY IS BASED ON 54 QUESTIONS, SO YOU SHOULD COMPENSATE WHEN CALCULATING OUT OF 38 QUESTIONS, TO BE FAIR!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SCREWED UP, NOT ME!!!
Let’s do some rough calculations, shall we? Since I got 35 out of 38 questions right, and because I incorrectly answered 3 questions, my raw score is (as anyone who’s taken a practice test knows) 35 minus 3 divided by 4, or 34.25, which can be rounded to 34. Now, using proportions (see below) and the assumption that getting all 38 questions right would be an 800, we can calculate my overall score:
34 X
— = —
38 800
34800 = 38X
27200 = 38*X
27200
-------- = X
38
715.789473684 = X
Now we just need to figure whether we round this score up to 720 or down to 710, as anyone who’s taken a practice test knows that the College Board has a weird way of scoring the sections that only goes up by 10’s. I WOULD SAY that 715.789473684 rounds to 716, which then rounds to 720.
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SO COLLEGE BOARD, WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET 690 FROM THIS, HUH?!?!?!?!!?!? What screwed up way did THEY use to get what THEY claim is my true math score, when this proportions thing works a heck of a lot better?!?!?!!?!??!?
I can only think of a few things:
Remember when I said, “…and the assumption that getting all 38 questions right would be an 800…”? Well, maybe these nutjobs DIDN’T see getting all 38 questions right equals an 800, and that they used my proportions system, except they used a number less than 800 to based the proportion on. But by that logic, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET A PERFECT SCORE ON THIS SAT. IMPOSSIBLE.
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BULLSHIT!! I honestly DO NOT think they are insane enough to do that, but if they did…just…wow…that’s the dictionary definition of unfair!
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Perhaps, instead, they did base the proportion (or whatever system they used to calculate the scores) on “getting all 38 right equals an 800”, but instead made incorrect answers have more of an impact, or as much of an impact as they would have if this was truly based on a 38 questions scale. But then we return to, “YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SCREWED UP, NOT ME!!!” Yes, why am IIII being punished for THEIR screw up???
Or, perhaps they came up with some stupid way of assuming I missed questions on the omitted section, ie for every question I get wrong in the available pile of questions, I get a half of a question wrong in the omitted section, and that contributed to my overall score. But, AGAIN, “YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SCREWED UP, NOT ME!!!” Plus, if this IS how they did their calculating of the sections that suffered from their screw up, then the statement, “We remain confident in the reliability of scores from the June 6 administration of the SAT” is ABSOLUTE EFFING BULLSHIT!!! No, NO, College Board, “We remain confident in the reliability of scores from the June 6 administration of the SAT”, is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY WRONG, ESPECIALLY, if you ASSUMED that I got questions wrong on the part you claim to have omitted!!!
Sorry for my rant. I just can’t see how getting 3 (JUST 3!!) questions wrong equates to a 690 without the use of some stupid system based on assumptions about the “omitted” section. If there’s some flaw in my logic, please point it out. I’m just very pissed that I didn’t improve in math AT ALL after studying for 3 months with AP testing and getting a PERFECT SCORE on the math section on at least 3 practice tests while studying!! Now I have to take the test again in October and hope, not only that III don’t screw up, but that THEY don’t either!!!
690 is functionally identical to a 720 (within the Standard Error of Measurement)…
Also, the use of ALL CAPS isn’t really a very strong rhetorical strategy.
“690 is functionally identical to a 720”
I do not see how that is true. You wanna explain?
My D took this test with the simple goal of trying to get her Math score from a 570 (March test) to at least a 600 (CR and Writing were OK). She did quite a bit of Algebra and Geometry review in preparation and she felt pretty good about it coming out of the test. Her math score dropped by 40 points and she feels like an idiot. Still waiting on June ACT scores, but I guess her applications may need to be put on hold until right before the November 1 deadlines.
@ArthurDent42 The SAT never scores the way you’re doing it. Look at any previous curves and you’ll see that missing a question near the higher score ranges takes off more points than the lower score ranges. Not to mention the fact that SAT scores start at 200 which already presents a clear flaw in your math. -4 on Math going to a 690 sounds about right. And don’t you think it’s a bit generous to assume that you missed ZERO questions on the removed Math section when you missed an average of 1.5 questions per section on the previous two?
I missed 4 questions and got a 680 but you missed 3 and got a 690? weird.
@bringit1 I see. I didn’t know that. I guess the practice book is more BS than I thought it was and makes the scoring system look deceiving. “And don’t you think it’s a bit generous to assume that you missed ZERO questions on the removed Math section when you missed an average of 1.5 questions per section on the previous two?” Usually missing 3 overall in math is rare for me based on my practice tests, but of course they didn’t know that and therefore assumed that I missed more questions. I still think it’s an unfair thing to assume. Perhaps they were referring to my previous test where I got a 690 on math as well, and where I probably missed more than 3 questions, therefore they used that data to make assumptions about this test…? Kinda a wild guess…I don’t know I still think 3 questions wrong shouldn’t be an instant 690. No scale in the back of any practice test I took showed 3 wrong answers being a 690…but again the Blue Book could be complete bull crap…
@Archlion EXACTLY! This test is full of BS. They’ll definitely be paying for my October test!
@Archlion @ArthurDent42 Do you live in the US? The international version was not affected by the timing error which would explain a different curve. And did you both take it on June 6th and not June 7th?
@bringit1 Took it in June 6th in the U.S. Does it matter what the level of difficulty was on the missed questions?
All questions are worth the same amount of points
I took the June test and according to my maths score report I missed 6 questions and left 3 blanks and got a disappointing 610 
Looking forward to the October test but I’m a little bit scared because they say the October score curve is very wicked! Any truth in this?
The tests change each time, so no, the curve isn’t necessarily harsher. Don’t sweat it.
The biggest problem with them “offering kids to re-take it for free” in October, is that it takes place on the same day as SUBJECT TESTS! So as a Senior student, this is one of your last chances to take Subjects in enough time to submit for early admissions. This test was a total fiasco!