<p>we’re never gonna get our scores… I hate them-</p>
<p>grrr!! i want my scores for the SAT IIs back! this is stupid. i hate TCB! i was sooo looking forward to 23rd.</p>
<p>so was i. too bad. i guess we’ll just have 2 wait until the 31st.</p>
<p>We should all just take the ACT! Lead a revolution! A movement to show how dissatisfied we are with CB, and plus our low scores and so far (if we receive them).</p>
<p>They replied again:
Good Afternoon,</p>
<p>Thank you for contacting The College Board.</p>
<p>May SAT and Subject Test scores will be available online Wednesday, May
31.
We want to assure you that accurate student scores and a quality testing
experience are the College Board’s top priorities. For this reason, we
are taking additional steps in the SAT scanning process. As a result,
the score reporting date will be extended approximately one week. This
will allow us to be certain that the new processes are implemented
thoroughly. May SAT scores can be viewed online starting May 31.
Official scores will be mailed to you beginning June 9 and we will begin
sending scores to your high school and to any colleges to which you
requested scores be sent beginning June 9.</p>
<p>Our scanning vendor, Pearson Educational Measurement, is implementing
enhanced quality controls, which include acclimatizing all answer sheets
before scanning to eliminate any possibility of a humidity impact,
improving software to identify any answer sheet expansion that might
occur due to humidity, and scanning each answer sheet twice, on
different days.</p>
<p>Because of the additional measures we are taking, May and June test
scores will also be available approximately one week later than
previously announced. We appreciate your understanding as we work to
further enhance the quality of our processes.</p>
<p>For more information, please visit <a href=“http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.collegeboard.com</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Camille
The College Board
Call Center</p>
<p>9 days. 9 long days.</p>
<p>the stupid wait is killing me…so do the scores come in at 1 am usa time?</p>
<p>hahaha…this sucks so much… I just wanna know what I got…I hate waiting. I have zero patience for this kind of stuff</p>
<p>8 Am</p>
<p>Ha ha ha. That form letter is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. I posted about a week ago, and have been telling everyone who will listen for months now that the reason they screwed up all those tests is that they didn’t bother to scan them twice (which CB used to do–I guess Pearson doesn’t know what they are doing yet), which tends to prevent the screw-ups. CB and Pearson claimed that because of the essay grading burden, they didn’t have the time or the money. This is of course, crap:
Time: It takes their Scan-Tron 8200 machine at most 1 second to score all the multiple-choice pages of your bubble sheet. Probably less, since they are all loaded into the hopper at once. I bet the average is closer to 1/4 second.
So even if you take the longer estimate of the two (1s), it’s not that long. Now assume that they only have 1 Scan-Tron machine (which is of course ridiculous; they probably have 20 of them). In one eight-hour work day, they could scan 28,800 students’ bubble sheets.
If we use the 1/4 second estimate with 20 machines, they could score 2.304 million bubble sheets in one day, which is more than the number they actually need to score in an entire academic year.
Money: This “non-profit” company makes $800 Million per year. They spend a few pennies on R&D, since they reuse old tests and new questions are 99% spiraled from old SATs, SAT-II Writing and SAT-II Math I exams. The test booklet costs them about 10 cents to produce. They pay the proctor (for a room full of students) $75, (the school pays them another $25). The bubble sheet costs them a penny. You pay $40, plus many people pay extra to get their scores early via phone/web.
In other words, they are full of it. They just screwed up, and then are giving awfully lame excuses for it. Admittedly, Pearson just bit off more than it could chew in a business where they are at best J.V. players. But the College Board should have done a better job hiring them, managing them, and auditing them.
On the other hand, the real reason scores take so long is, in fact, the essay. It takes several minutes to grade the average essay, and it must be graded by 2 people (or in some cases 3) so even though they’ve got loads of teachers grading essays (you have to commit to a certain minimum number of hours in the post-test weeks), it’s still going to take a while.</p>
<p>It’s usually around 5-6 am EST ~_~</p>
<p>Although the essay is the reason why the scores take so long, the graders dont take more than 2 minutes on an essay. If you buy the Princetion Review test books they tell you that the scorers spend on average 80 seconds to correct an essay. The most important part of the essay is length, followed by structure, and then content. Plus with all the graders that collegeoard has, the scores definitely could go out earlier.</p>
<p>length? I think I used a page and a half–is that enough?</p>
<p>djdjdj28,
It’s more than 80 seconds, and that’s for any Pearson grader, or Pearson Master Grader. Obviously, an essay that is only a half page might be graded in that time. But if you grade more than one every four minutes over a large number of essays, your grading will not be accurate (as determined by inter-grader reliability and occasional random checks by an experienced grader), and you will get dinged by Pearson. Chances are, the PR book (which one was it?) came out before they knew what was going on, or perhaps they forgot to edit that section of the book. Generally, their stuff is quite good (especially tests and strategies), but did you notice that the 11 Practice Book (the first, not the 2006 edition) came out more than 6 months before the College Board’s book, and in that time, ETS changed their minds about the structure of the test several times?
Once again, it’s not length, it’s the quality of the reasoning (thesis and logic), the substantiality of the development, the organization (yes, structure), the progression of ideas, and then minutiae having to do with language. If content means level of detail in appropriate examples, then that’s correct.
Martha: if you wrote small (and perhaps neatly), and did everything else well, then 1.5 pages is good.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me the time difference between USA and Egypt so i can know when to check for my scores? 8 am in USA is what time here?? :):)</p>
<p>4:00 p.m. I’m guessing. The difference is about ten hours.</p>
<p>omg…u guys are so crazy about the scores…patience my dear fellas…
jsut check it on MAY 31, right when u get up in the morning…thats all…dont stress out or committ suicide if u wake up at 4AM and dont find your scores online…just calmm downnn…and wait a few more hours…THATS ALL.THNK U VERY MUCH</p>
<p>you must be slightly crazy about the scores to know it’s the morning of 31st… because half the people at the college board don’t seem to know.
And if it was just the normal score release it wouldn’t be such a big thing… it’s the fact they keep delaying the scores and giving different answers.</p>
<p>^Its so funny. Today our GC put up a message on the daily bulletin for all junior students to go with their newly received SAT scores to update their profiles… he got so ****ed when he found out they wouldn’t come out until the 31st. hahaha</p>
<p>lol, exactly.
nobody really knows when we’ll get the scores.</p>