The College Board last week notified high-school juniors who took the SAT on April 1 that instead of receiving their scores today, as the board had promised since the test date, there would be a week’s delay while the board took “additional steps in the SAT-scanning process” because “accurate student scores and a quality testing experience are the College Board’s top priorities.”

Under the headline “April SAT Scores Will Be Available Beginning April 24,” the board’s Web site now says that the score announcement will be “extended” by approximately a week so that Pearson Educational Measurement, the company that scans and scores the tests, can carry out new quality controls, including “acclimatizing” all answer sheets, improving software to detect damp tests, and scanning each answer sheet twice, on different days.

In the aftermath of misreported scores on thousands of the tests given in October, the College Board said that the chief culprit appeared to be answer sheets that were incorrectly scored because they were too humid to be read properly by Pearson’s machines (The Chronicle, March 24). The scoring glitches embarrassed the College Board and have led to at least one lawsuit (The Chronicle, April 10).