WP: Hundreds worldwide hit by loss of Advanced Placement exams

[DeepModem Mom]

Hundreds Worldwide Hit by Loss Of AP Tests
By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 18, 2006; Page A07

Sections from hundreds of Advanced Placement exams taken around the world in May have been lost, according to the company that scores the tests, and students must now decide whether to retake them.

Tom Ewing, spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which develops and scores AP exams for the nonprofit College Board, said that it was unclear exactly how many AP tests were affected but that the number was "in the hundreds, not thousands."

In some cases, Ewing said, the essay portion of the AP test is missing; in others it is the score sheet for the multiple-choice section that has been lost. ETS develops the AP exams and scores them for the College Board....

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Ewing said that any student whose test is affected has options to consider, depending on what part of the test is missing: retaking it and accepting a partial score or canceling the entire grade.

ETS used to administer the SAT 1 tests for the College Board but lost the contract in 2003 to Pearson Educational Measurement, which has run into grading problems of its own this year. More than 4,000 students were sent incorrectly low scores for the SAT in March, and more than 600 had better results than they deserved on a test taken last October....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701355.html

[elehhhhna]

1. If they can eff up the SAT that badly, imagine how for-profit-orgs

handle our votes.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Poor little rich kids! nt

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Could be some smart little poor kids? nt

[Lance_Boyle]

5. Huh?

I never knew there was an income qualifier to taking AP courses. :shrug:

[MsKandice01]

6. Advance Placement students come from every income level..

[fidgeting wildly]

7. Sorry?

I lived in a rural school district, in a poor family, and I obtained college credit through AP testing.

[Halliburton]

3. the collegeboard sucks

non-profit my ass.