My son took his PSAT in October of last year and received 1020 470 on English and 550 on Math/ then he took the SAT’s this year and received the exact same score of 1020 but the exact same 470 for English and the same 550 for Math? The odds of this happening is like 1 in 1.5 million. What do we do? they want 55 dollars for verification of it.
I assume by asking about verification, you believe the score is wrong.
In the many, many “this score can’t be right, I did better than that, they must have made a mistake” posts I’ve seen over the years, I don’t think I’ve seen an actual score change on an optically-scored test. It’s probably happened, but it’s exceedingly rare - optical scanning is quite proven and accurate.
Given the statistical ranges in CB’s growth projections, I’d say the odds are closer to one in a thousand. Both are just 10 points outside the one standard deviation expected change.
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-suite-growth-estimates.pdf