<p>This does not make sense to me: We all know that there were two different SAT tests administered on April 1st. By all accounts one test had math that was extremely difficult while the other test had more moderate math. I have heard that these two tests will not be scaled separately. If collegeboard goes to great lengths to make certain that a test given on one date is comparable to a test given on another date through equating and scaling, why would they not equate separately each of two tests given on the same date? Some students might score very high on math on the exam with more moderate questions while they might have received a much lower score had they had been given the exam with more difficult math question. The only way I can see them scaling the two tests together is if they had previously determined the two tests were equal in diffculty.</p>
<p>How can you possibly know how CB will scale the scores?</p>
<p>I don’t no where you are getting your information from but it doesn’t seem to make sense to me</p>
<p>I called college board and I asked if they would be scaling the two SAT tests given on April 1st separately because one seemed to have a much more difficult math section than the other. The operator I spoke to said no. She seemed aware there was more than one test administered, and said that when the college board administers more than one test on a given day they make sure the questions are similar. I asked to speak to a supervisor just to confirm but was never connected… I hope the college board has a process in place to make certain that the two tests are similar in level of difficulty before they administer it, because if they don’t scale it separately, their entire process of equating does not seem to make sense. As I ask, why would they go to great lengths to make cetain that one test is not more difficult or easier than other test given on another test date, (through equating and scaling) but not make sure two tests given on the same day are not more difficult or easier than the other? To me it makes sense for the two tests to be scaled separately unless there is a process in place where the two tests were equalled beforehand. It does not seem like the two tests were similar in difficulty. Some people seemed to have had much harder math sections. Perhaps the operators just were not informed. I hope so</p>
<p>well if thats true, that isn’t fair</p>
<p>I have called College Board and the operators really dont know much… I had to explain some stuff that they did not know until they checked with a supervisor and said I was correct.</p>
<p>Correct about what?</p>
<p>obviously they make the tests very close in difficulty. they wouldn’t make one test hard and one easy, then not scale them proportionally. they aren’t idiots.</p>
<p>or are they?</p>
<p>I agree that the collegeboard operators do not seem to know much. One time I called to ask a question about rescoring or reverifying the essays and an operator gave me one answer. Just to check a called back and was given a completely different answer. A third call led to yet another different answer.
Yes, if the two tests were not equal in difficulty it makes sense and is only fair to have separate scales. I truly hope that there is a procedure in place at collegeboard that ascertains that if two tests given on the same date and are not scaled separately, that they are equal in difficulty One cannot assume that college board has this procedure set in place however. Only recently we learned that they had no procedure that indicated when errors in scoring were made (it was only the request by two students to have their exams hand scored that led to the errors). It is possible therefore that there might not be a procedure set in place to ascertain two tests given on a certain date are equal. It is only because some who took the test had an extremely difficult math, more difficult than other exams, while others did not, that one can wonder if they are scaled separately or if not if they are really equalled in advance. We are all left to guess and hope</p>
<p>I asked if i could sign up for one subject but take up to three that day (not sure which ones i want to take) and asked how the billing process worked.</p>