<p>Why in the world does it take 3-5 weeks for a score verification report? seeing that its in between exams and it takes like 10 minutes max to score an sat by hand..</p>
<p>I mean how many can they get to make it that long?</p>
<p>And then it takes a week for the freeking email to send...
to be honest.. even if they have 500-1000 to grade I dont think it should take over 4 weeks</p>
<p>I would have expected 1-2 weeks... 3 weeks at MOST for them to get done with it.</p>
<p>Also why isnt it priority based or first come first serve based? Or based on grade level?</p>
<p>I mean I think a senior which has a few weeks before applications are due for college should get priority first before a junior who has a whole year to wait.</p>
<p>Anyways enough of ranting.. but anybody have an answer?</p>
<p>(background to this question....... I had used a really crappy eraser and made a ton of eraser marks on the december exam... I would have told them at the time had I known how screwed up my scores would have been but I didnt realize until a few weeks when I used the same eraser/pencil for my spanish exam which was on SCANTRON and after the exam went over to recheck the answers to find out that the majority which I got wrong were due to my eraser marks...</p>
<p>In any event I got my scores back today and I was 100% sure the scores were wrong ie wayyy too low given the fact that I was scoring in the 650 range consistently for the math sections I took at home but I got a 580 on the exam when I only skipped around 6 and had felt really good about my answers... I tried asking for a verification report before the test results came in but they said I had to wait which is utter stupidity given the fact that it would have been one less verification report to have been written for when they get swamped with people after the exam results come out.. )</p>
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<li><p>It takes longer than you think to score a multiple choice test by hand.</p></li>
<li><p>Yours is not the only one they will have to hand score. Even if it took 10 minutes like you said and there were only 1000 to hand score, that’s 10,000 minutes. Given that most people operate on an 8 hour work day 5 days a week, 10,000 minutes is 21 work days, or a little over 4 work weeks. Add processing time to that to make sure that they are matched with the right person and sent to the right address, 3-5 weeks is right around the mark. </p></li>
<li><p>It’s probably not priority-based on grade level because the scorers don’t have time to sort out who’s a senior, who’s a junior, etc. That kind of thing takes time and manpower - time that would likely increase the amount of time it would take to get back to you, not decrease it.</p></li>
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<p>1) Well when I or others hand scored my own Practice tests it took around 10-15 minutes (minus the time for checking reasoning for answers). So that was why I was assuming it would take around 10-15 minutes. Perhaps there is more paper work and such to go with that job which makes it longer.</p>
<p>2)The reasoning you gave does put it into perspective thanks. The question then boils down to why dont they update the results as soon as each or a certain batch of people are done that way everbody doesnt have to wait 3-5 weeks for their results.</p>
<p>3) I respectfully disagree seeing that if there was a mark to delineate who was a senior and who was a junior or when they plan to apply to college on the SAT score verification request form then they can separate out juniors from seniors in that way and then simply process the requests from the seniors to juniors with the same amount of man power… </p>
<p>In that way they can do it in batches one senior and one junior pile thus speeding up the process for seniors while juniors would recieve it perhaps 2-3 weeks later than the seniors. This is of course just a fleeting thought as I doubt they would adopt this idea.</p>