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I was also charged twice and I'm writing my complaint on any blog that I can. There is no incentive for College board to do the right thing. It is the only way you can register for the SAT. What a Scam. They also treated me like it was my banks fault now I'm going to go through my bank to dispute the charge. College Board is the worst.

Am kindly requesting my SAT scores, the test i sat on Nov 7th 2009 to be sent to me since the test have not sent to me and on confirming the issue they demanded that they have not recieved the hardcopy yet.

My name is KELVIN ONDIEKI, Registration number [protected] of test center 77-966 Nairobi KENYA.

My email address, ondiekicalphince@yahoo.com
Postal address, p.o. Box [protected] NAIROBI KENYA.
Cell phone, +[protected]

For decades College Board constantly said things like "the SAT is strictly a measure of what you've learned over a long time" which purposely fostered the false implication that it was based on standard school curriculum. Further, they constantly said "you can't prepare for it." These messages were constantly pumped out in their marketing material and in press releases from the fake news which were then mindlessy parroted by clueless high school teachers constantly. The key word for the day is "constant" because that's exactly what it was, a constant effort to brainwash the public.

In reality, the truth was the exact opposite of the message they broadcasted as the SAT was actually designed to be not aligned to high school curriculum and had very little to do with the thousands of hours you spent in K-12 school and everything to do with the length of the prep course you could afford in order to learn SAT, such as Kaplan which began as a 64 hour course in 1946. It was the classic bait 'n' switch and it was done in order to hide the ball from poor people because in order to more easily score in a high percentile you need the masses to score in a low percentile. And that way you keep from ascending to power those who understand what it means to be poor and the daily obstacles it presents so that the interests of the poor cannot be represented in or by our government.

I have a friend who taught college science classes for several years, they did some review of the ACT and SAT tests and those who wrote them, finding that several of them did not have academic credentials to even write questions for the tests

Yep, the whole thing smelled like a scam and now I see that the SAT has been completely debunked.

It takes money to make money and it takes money to do well on the SAT. No wonder the United States has the lowest economic mobility in the developed world.

This test is the nastiest scam ever devised. The only reason a school might use an non-aligned, unreasonably speeded test like the SAT, GMAT, LSAT, or GRE is to measure whether someone can afford an expensive test prep course, and thereby measure whether they can afford your tuition, enabling you to screen out applicants that you would have to give a need-based scholarship to while pretending you're being meritocratic. It's also covert racism as most brown people are poor. Tens of billions of tax payer dollars are given to colleges and consultancies that use these fake tests for entrance. The government contracts with each of these companies which means the government is actively supporting class discrimination and covert racism.

Ah yes, the SAT scam. Easily the most famous example of ed-fraud in our nation's history (although the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT are even more fraudulent). These tests were devised by the Aristocracy as a way of passing down birthright. Every academic and every administrator at colleges that require these exams is a flat out fraud. Occasionally you'll hear a scoundrel say that unaligned entrance exams are fair because you can buy a $30 book to help you learn their subject matter. If everyone had the self discipline to learn a subject just from buying a textbook then we wouldn't have schools. People need the structure which is why the rich are willing to spend several thousand dollars on a prep course.

CollegeBoard, Inc. and ETS, Inc. consistently lied for decades by saying that their flagship product, the SAT, is uncoachable. The idea that a subject can't be learned has always been crazy mysticism perpetrated by maniacal liars. In order to deepen the ruse, CollegeBoard and ETS each issued studies showing only small gains from coaching which always downplayed the fact that the studies themselves were based on short courses of an average of only 4-6 hours in length (as if anyone could learn a subject as large as the SAT in only 4-6 hours). This disinformation hid from much of the public that the wealthy could dramatically increase their test scores with a full-length, costly prep course which in turn disadvantaged both the poor and those not in the know.

In actuality, test prep courses are highly effective. Montgomery and Lilly's 2012 systematic literature review of every scientific study (randomized controlled trials) ever done revealed that test prep courses give an average gain of 56 points per an approximate 10 class hours of prep. The only scientific study they found to have ever been done on an actual course-length prep course (a standard college course is 30-45 classroom hours) was based on a 30 hour course in 1984 which gave an average increase of 178 points.

If CollegeBoard and ETS are willing to so brazenly lie on the record, what are they willing to do behind closed doors?

The SAT is a scam. Correlation to college grades has always been the psychometrician's justification that a test measures intelligence. The University of California did a validity study, using the same huge diverse population, in which tests with so called "psychometric properties" (the SAT math and verbal sections) were proven to be far less effective at predicting college grades than regular or "achievement" tests. Therefore, the pseudoscientific medling of psychometricians has been proven not only useless, but counterproductive and indeed detrimental to society. Psychometrics went head to head with regular valid testing and psychometrics got crushed. This study tells you all you need to know about psychometrics (IQ) and proved that psychometricians aren't experts on intelligence, testing, or anything.

So if not intelligence, what, if anything, does the SAT measure? The University of California was just as interested in this question as you and I. They found that after controlling for familial income and parental education, the so-called achievement tests had ten times more predictive ability of college aptitude than the SAT which means virtually the entire correlation the SAT has with college grades can be explained by familial income (AKA whether you can afford an extensive prep course) and parental education (AKA whether your parents are in the know about the test's coachability in spite of CollegeBoard's smokescreen). The SAT should have been history within a month of this study's release. The fact that the SAT is still around 10 years after this study was released tells you every single thing that you will ever need to know about this country's education system.

It's good that schools are dropping an unaligned test like the SAT. An unaligned test is academic fraud. Unaligned entrance exams require one be able to afford expensive prep courses in order to learn their content. If that weren't bad enough, most US entrance exams also suffer from item selection political engineering, where the test designers select in the questions that most wealthy people are likely to get right, in order to perpetuate and justify existing social ranks. As insidious as that sounds, it's also the absolute, well documented truth (see The IQ Mythology, The Politics of IQ, The Making of Intelligence, Inequality by Design, etc., etc.). Colleges that use these exams are schools of deceit. Nearly every college in America is, or at least at one time was, a school of deceit. Our most famous schools, your Harvards, Princetons, Yales, etc., are the ones that emphasize these tests the most and are thus the most extreme examples of this deceitfulness. Then, when you go to see where these exams were created, you find that it's the same old culprits: Princeton for the SAT and Harvard, Yale, and Columbia for the LSAT. This fraud has been perpetrated against the American people for over 50 years and has impacted tens of millions of people. It's the grandest, most consequential, largest scale scam in the history of our country.

Conversely, these same Ivy League schools refuse to administer the national exit exams (major field tests), so we don't know if anyone ever actually learns anything there. So on one hand you have these schools which are clearly some of the worst in our country and then on the other hand, you have a failed tabloid, US News and World Report, going around saying that they're the best which leaves the consumer completely befuddled. Some schools have figured it out and have decided to go phony entrance test optional, but none of them that I'm aware of have issued mea culpas for their past use which is the only way they could ever be taken seriously again.

The government needs to make an example of the most extreme schools of deceit by shutting them down and seizing their assets. The combined endowments alone of the four schools mentioned above are about 100 billion dollars. Imagine the reparations you could pay society back for the havoc these schools have wreaked. It's a start anyways and you have to start somewhere with reining in the college scam. Why not start with the grossest offenders?

Took the SAT test in December, 2012. SAT person emailed in January and said there were issues about answers--they showed too much improvement over the answers in the May, 2012, test--and they were having to conduct some type of evaluation. SAT still has not sent the scores but keeps sending emails saying to be patient while it evaluates the answers. Isn't the whole idea of getting their study guides and test preparation materials supposed to aid you in improving your scores!? Meanwhile colleges are asking for the results.

I am apply for Drexel Undergrad and they are accepting downloaded SAT Score Report and emailed to them. The Report needs to have Date of Birth but when I download my score it its missing DOB and they would not add.

31/07/2023, I registered for the SAT 07 Oct test date in 10:53 and for the first time it listed that I haven't complete the transaction so I have to registered again in 10:56, however, College Board charged me both 2 times i registered so how can I get my money back?

I dearly seek for a remark concerning my SAT result. I took the exam on Saturday, the 3th of December 2022.

Test center: Jephthah Comp Sec Sch.

Registration number: [protected].

Took the PSAT in early October and College Board said she had two profiles and was merging them. Said it would take 5-7 business days. It is now late December and still no score. They said it was escalated but that was clearly a lie. Agent was hard to understand and extremely rude…kept interrupting me.

Complaint. My son and a group of other students showed up to test site on 8/27/2022. Test site was closed. We stood out there for an hour. Did not get in. Called the school they said they no longer is a test site for SAT. We did not get any notices before the test date. College board refuse to resolve issue.

College board did the same to us how do we get this resolved?!

We have called the College Board multiple times after two months they finally raised an escalation to the case manager Jake Sarro. Unfortunately, this gentleman never responded to our emails or returned back any of our phone calls. Seriously more than two months and no one can tell us what's going on...

I did sat 5/7/2022 at Eldoret Polytechnic and i have been waiting for results, I contacted them several times only to be told i did not provide the correct document at testing center yet I gave them the my ID and admission ticket.

1st off I have to say for big company you guys really do poorly with your customer service I've been waiting 3 days to get my reset password link and I still haven't got it so I to call back and get it hopefully they send it back you need to train your employees better. Because they clearly have no communication skills whatsoever