Lapses in SAT scoring and test security raise concerns

When a Whitman senior sat down for the August SAT, he had a startling case of déjà vu. After reading the first passage, he realized he’d already taken the exact test three times for practice.

When he got home and saw #refundaugustSAT trending on Twitter, he quickly found out that The College Board had reused the international October 2017 Asia test, which had been leaked online by several Asian test prep companies. Many students had practiced with the test before it was administered in the U.S.

The August SAT wasn’t the College Board’s only recent major blunder. The June SAT was riddled with “unscorable” questions, resulting in a harsher than usual penalty for missing just a few. Normally, getting only one question wrong on the math section would equate to a 10 point decrease, if any at all. For the June test, it meant a 30 point drop.

Junior Bobby Xiao was frustrated by the administration of two faulty tests in a row...

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