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Students Can Retake SAT for Free After Misprint

Written, spoken directions on time allowed were off on 2 sections
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jun 16, 2015 5:10 PM CDT
Students Can Retake SAT for Free After Misprint
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Students who took a flawed SAT this month can get a free do-over. The College Board will waive the $54.50 fee for any student who took the June 6 exam, which contained a printing error that gave some students five more minutes on one section of the test. The test incorrectly said students had "25 minutes" to complete one section, while directions read out loud correctly told students they had 20 minutes. The College Board announced a few days after the test that Sections 8 and 9 would be thrown out and all students would be scored on the remaining sections. That would make scores based on fewer questions, testing officials said.

"We remain confident in the reliability of scores from the June 6 administration of the SAT and don't want to cause undue anxiety for students by making them believe they need to sit for the test again," says a College Board spokesman. "However, we have waived the fee for the October SAT administration for students who let us know that their testing experience was negatively affected by the printing error and we will continue to do so." (More SAT stories.)

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