<p>I come from a fairly observant Jewish family, so my brother and I have always taken SAT/SAT II tests on Sundays. My brother took the SAT I today,
taking it for the first time in May.
My mother is a tennis coach at a Jewish day school. One of the players took the test today for the third time, having taken it on a Saturday in April and a Sunday in May. She claims that the test she took today was THE EXACT SAME as the Saturday April test. According to a friend of hers who took the Sunday april test, that was the same test as well.
How do you think we should handle this in a way that ensures that even if the test is invalidated, my brother can retake in time to apply to colleges?</p>
<p>I come from a fairly observant Jewish family, so my brother and I have always taken SAT/SAT II tests on Sundays. My brother took the SAT I today. He had previously taken it last May.
My mother is a tennis coach at a Jewish day school. One of the players took the test today for the third time, having taken it on a Saturday in April and a Sunday in May. She claims that the test she took today was THE EXACT SAME as the Saturday April test. According to a friend of hers who took the Sunday april test, that was the same test as well.
How do you think we should handle this? My dad is planning to call ETS, but we are concerned that if all the tests are invalidated he (and everyone else) will lose out on their chance to present new scores to colleges. How should we present this to ETS?</p>
<p>The fact that the test was the same as a Sat test last year is not an accident, but rather a practice of good ol’ college board.
If you search through college confidential threads you will find that it has been done before.</p>
<p>don’t be concerned. This is how CB administers Sunday tests.</p>
<p>Yeah, but in this case the student is claiming that her friend’s April Sunday test was the same as well. Either way, this one kid, who decided to ask for the religious accomodations after taking the Saturday test once, wound up taking the same test twice.</p>
<p>You should definitely notify them of this problem!!! Whatever the ramifications, they should be alerted to this problem.</p>
<p>I (or, at least someone in my family) will. I’m just worried that because there are relatively few sunday test takers, CB won’t be as concerned about making sure affected students have the opportunity for a timely retest if any scores are invalidated.
Assuming that the tennis player is correct, but that perhaps is mistaken about which day her friend took the test back in April, then maybe the mistake is no bigger than accidentally allowing this one girl to switch status from being a Saturday to Sunday tester, if they do indeed use old Saturday tests on Sundays.</p>
<p>Email the College Board who administers the test. Or even better call them.</p>
<p>Since the CB’s mission is to make sure no one gets a fair advantage, I’m sure this will be of interest to them. Worst case scenario they will offer a free makeup.</p>