<p>My son, who is an A+ student, took an AP May 2011. His teacher wrote me an email dumbfounded by the unbelievably low score (1 or of 5) my son received. My son has accommodations due to an auditory problem. The accommodations include taking the test in small group, using his FM monitor (a hearing device) and writing answers in the test book. He was in the small group room, etc. When he took the test he specifically pointed out to the proctor his accommodation to write in the test book and wrote his name on the test book, as required. He did not leave any questions blank. However most of the test disappeared from the grading. My only guess is that somehow the answers in the test book were not included in the grading. I am guessing that if the test still existed, and were examined, they would find that error left whole sections out of the grading process. How does collegeboard fix errors of this type? I am hoping that some records are kept of tests so that they can be checked for grading errors. What is the appeal process? I spent a great deal of time searching the Collegeboard website, but could not find ANY pages related to reporting errors, appeals, etc.</p>
<p>Search for AP exam rescoring. It costs $25 and they only check MC scoring and whether the FRQ score was added to the total score (but not the FRQ score itself).
Since you mentioned that he wrote in the test book, does that imply that he did not write in on the multiple choice answer sheet? Although I’m not sure about the accommodation testing format, in general cases, College Board shreds the test books; all exam takers are required to write their names/return the test books to prevent the questions from leaking out.</p>
<p>edit: On the College Board website, the only accommodation that is mentioned is written directions and sign language interpreters. Could there have been a misunderstanding on testing format? Writing answers in the test book instead of the answer sheet seems like an unusual accommodation.</p>
<p>The accommodation was to write in the test book, and then it is transferred to the bubble sheet. Same accomodation for SAT, which worked fine for all tests (general and 4 subject tests). I am afraid that the transfer was not done, and the test shredded. He had taken two tests. We do not know about the second one yet, whether it was affected by the same error.</p>
<p>Have you tried contacting the College Board SSD? Maybe they’ll be able to help.</p>
<p>UPDATE: called SSD office last monday. They confirmed that the highschool had failed to transfer answers on question sheets for both AP exams (which were taken on different days even!). THe SSD office indicated that it was likely that the books had not been shredded yet, and they are pulling them so that the answers could be transferred. Next monday I will be calling again to see if they found the booklets.</p>
<p>Wow – good for you for following through on this. Please post a follow-up once you get more information from SSD.</p>
<p>However, I’m very, very surprised that the SSD expects that the student’s school would transfer the answers to the answer sheet. That’s something I’d expect would be done under substantially better controlled environment at a College Board facility, hopefully with verification of accurate transfer. (Much in the way mail-in ballots are duplicated in the event they’re damaged or even poorly marked with crayons or the like.)</p>
<p>Not only do they expect high schools to transfer the answers in the first place, but assuming that they are able to FIND the test books, ETS will be mailing back the two test books and grade sheet (one pair per test) to the high school, and have them transfer the answers, then send the materials back to ETS for grading. Why in this sort of case ETS could not do the transfer, rather than risking loss of materials or further errors in the high school, is beyond me.</p>
<p>Wow – sending them to the high school when most are closed for the month of July? This is nuts.</p>
<p>So far, the high school received the test book and grade sheet for one of the two tests, filled it in as they were supposed to do originally, and sent it back. I hear that the other test should be received by the school this week. So the process seems to be working. However I will not believe it until it is successfully completed.</p>
<p>My guess is that it would be kinda “strage” for the graders to be filling in your answers? Just a guess…I hope it all ends up well! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for 5’s :)</p>
<p>It’s probably an ethical thing. CollegeBoard shouldn’t ever touch a no.2 pencil to a paper they’ll be grading. Also, your son’s accomodation probably strictly requires that the school counselor do the transer…and no one else should do it.</p>