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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone surprised at a 300 point jump? Especially from a low score like 900, with prep, this is not unheard of.

In my DC's prep classes, the low scorers at the beginning of the class had the highest score jumps/changes. Its very difficult to move the needle if you start with a score in the 1400s for example. But for the students who start lower, and study for several months (the accused in the article studied for what 6 months?), a jump in score is highly likely.[/quote]

Yes, a jump like this through prep can surely happen. Retaking the test, for free, is the clearest way to confirm the score. You only have to score within 100 points of the flagged score for ETS to keep the higher score.

And, according to their website, they will never tell any colleges that the score was flagged, even if a student were to admit to cheating. A student who admits to cheating can retake the test as many times as they wish to pay for, and colleges will never know from College Board that the young person had admitted to cheating.

A test prep company has an article online that gives advice about how to handle a flagged score. They estimate that about 2500 scores are flagged each year, with about 1000 of those being confirmed in the end for the test taker. Not everyone who gets the letter follows the process, so the numbers of  confirmed test scores could be higher. Some people just want to move on and they retake on their own, so they wouldn't be included in the confirmed numbers. (These numbers are not from ETS, but are estimates put together by a test prep company that sees a lot of test takers and sometimes has to help clients with big jumps in test scores that get flagged.)[/quote]

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