<p>When anyone questions whether their SAT score may be accurate, they are permitted to call college board customer service and order a score verification form and for $50.00 can have their exam hand scored. The process which takes three to five weeks once the form is received, is supposed to involve someone's tracking down a students answer sheet and matching it to a stencil to hand score. The quetion I have, and I wonder if anyone has wondered themselves, is how does anyone know that that actually took place? How do we know whether a technician really tracked down the students answer sheet or just looked at the digital scan which shows what the computer picked up.? How does anyone know There is no one overseeing College Board that we know of to ensure that this is done fairly. When a student gets a report back that their scores were fine, they have to take at face value that it was done properly. I ask the quetion only becaues not too long ago I read a post from a cc poster who was one of the 4,000 whose scores were reported in error. What this poster indicated was startling. The poster said that after he took the SAT in October and received his scores he was sure there was an error as his report indicated that he omitted a large number of answers when he did not omit any. The poster indicated that he paid the $50.00 and that about two months later he received a letter that they had investivated and that his scores were fine and there were no errors on the scoring of his test. Only months later did he receive word that indicated that when the collegeboard went to recheck those who tested in October (after uncovering errors in two other students reports) they found they had made an error with his report. The poster indicated that he believed that when he sent in the $50.00 to have his scores rechecked, that no one at collegeboard actually went to retrieve his answer sheet as they are supposed to do, but rather checked the same digital scan that he had received as part of the ansewr sheet against the stencil of correct answers, thus never seeing that he had filled in his answers correctly on the answer sheet. He believed that when collegeboard went to recheck months later those who tested on that day, his answer sheet was really being checkef for the very first time, and he had in fact paid his $50.00 earlier for nothing.
With the collegeboard already embarrased by the number of errors they made in October, what incentive does college board have to correct errors made from here in on? Isn't it easier for a technician to not retrieve the students real answer sheet, then to retrieve it and uncover another basket of worms? Even if College Board's intention is to act in good faith, who ensures that handscoring is done fairly? Has anyone ever wondered this? Does anyone know?</p>
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