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For $43, the College Board will send you a copy of the test you took, your original answer sheet and a breakdown of correct and incorrect answers — providing a useful way to assess your weak spots, as well as to find a score-sheet mistake or some terrible injustice.
Appealing a Test Score
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
something else I didn't know
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That's interesting. Talent searches do that for gifted kids taking the test (that's basically what an ACT/SAT talent search is), but I didn't know that College Board would do that.
That is a very useful piece of info.
Is it advertised on their website?
SusanS
I have no idea!
Ed spotted this in the Times -- neither of us had ever heard that the College Board would give you your item-by-item breakdown.
In NZ we had our exam papers sent back to us with the marking on them automatically.
I think it's a valuable quality assurance process on the exams and on marking - if one of the national exams has a badly written question it's front page news in NZ the next day, and if you were marked wrongly you can apppeal (you had to pay a deposit to appeal which wasn't returned if your appeal is not accepted).
oh, that's great!
In fact, the article was about kids protesting their answers. They gave an example of a protest that was successful.
I've always wondered why this wasn't standard procedure for all standardized tests. Whenever I got a test back in a class, the first thing I did was re-check my answers; I hated the fact that I couldn't do the same thing on something like the SAT.
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