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The President of the College Board has apologized for the scoring errors on the October 2005 SAT Exams. 
 
Over 5000 students are known to be affected; while a few received higher grades than they should have, most were downgraded, some by as much as 25%. 
 
This may have drastically altered many of these students' lives, regarding college admission and scholarship eligibility. 
 
Details of what exactly happened are sketchy, but may be revealed in the course of a class action lawsuit filed in Minnesota. 
 

SAT Scoring Debacle Prompts Apology by College Board President

Newsinferno.com - 4/12/2006 3:16 PM

Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, is a man on the hot seat right now. While he is seeking to restore credibility and trust in the SAT examination, he has also been forced to apologize for the self-created disaster caused by thousands of scoring errors on the October 2005 test.
 
The College Board already apologized to the students who took the exam and received erroneous grades. Now, a formal apology has been sent by Caperton to the members of the College Board itself. I an email to those members, Caperton stated: “This situation
 
has tested us. It has tested me. We could not be more sorry that this happened or more determined to learn from our experience and to press on more vigorously than ever with our educational mission.'
 
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