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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So for those of you who are upset by this, do you disagree in general with SAT flagging and reviewing test takers who have a statistically significant 300 point score jump?

Or do you object to this specific test taker getting flagged for her 300 point score jump?[/quote]

I think most who object are primarily driven by a private, unregulated for-profit organization who can do any damn thing they please having so much control over the lives of young people.[/quote]

What kind of control do they have? Even if a flagged test was the result of cheating, college board does not tell colleges about it and they allow the test taker to retake the test as many times as they want. No one would have ever known this particular young person's name if she or her family had not publicized the story. It could have all been handled, with whatever the outcome turned out to be, and no one else would have ever known anything about it.

If you're saying it is control just because they give the tests and decide what can be done with the scores, well, that is their job.  They own the test and need to protect the integrity of the test.

Lots of schools are going test optional and any student can apply to a school that does not require test scores at all.  There are alternatives to taking these tests, so again, I don't see these companies controlling all students.

There are two different, competing, companies giving these tests and schools that don't even require test scores. College Board does not control the lives of students. Students have choices they can make. 
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If this is her senior year, she is totally screwed. Even if the College Board doesn’t alert the school, she is still missing a test score that most colleges require for consideration. There are students on College Confidential who weren’t notified about their invalidated test until almost a year later in the Senior year. That SUCKS’[/quote]
So what exactly do you suggest the College Board (Or teachers or professors, for that matter) do when they are presented with very strong evidence that something is not right?

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Proctor the tests suitably in the first place.[/quote]

My kids have had the worst proctor for their tests.

One had the kids start the wrong section - it wasn’t until the students said something that it was corrected...10 minutes later.

One didn’t even check IDs.

One had the tables configured too close to each other. (That made me nervous that the test would be invalidated. It was not)

Just a sample of fun times of SAT/ACT testing.[/quote]

Exactly. So they take in tons of money and don’t require a suitable testing environment. That is actually worth fighting. [/quote]

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