April 22, 2005

And on the 11th Day, the Readers Rested

By ERIC HOOVER

The graders who scored 330,000 SAT essays in 10 days had no time to tarry

Text: Who graded the SAT essays

One morning in March, Heidi Tilley put her baby down for a nap, logged on to a secure Web site, and started reading words written by high-school students whose names she would never know. From her den, in Sterling, Va., she graded dozens of essays a day for almost two weeks.

Ms. Tilley, a high-school English

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