March 31, 2006

College Board Finds Hundreds More SAT Scoring Mistakes

By ERIC HOOVER

Robert A. Schaeffer, public-education director of FairTest, a testing watchdog group, has dubbed the unfolding story about the SAT scoring errors "a centipede." And last week, it started crawling again.

The College Board announced that an additional 393 students who took the SAT in October earned higher scores than were first reported to them, bringing the total number of test takers who received incorrectly low scores to 4,411.

In a written statement, the College Board said it

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