This occurs due to an error with the June 6 test.

The Daily Journal reports.

College Board waiving fee for students who took June 6 SAT and want to take it again

The College Board said late Monday night it now will waive fees for any student in the United States who took the June 6 SAT but wants to retake it because of irregularities with the administration of the exam. The unprecedented decision was made after the College Board was forced to discard two of 10 sections of the SAT because of printing errors on test booklets — and students and parents expressed concerns about the reliability of the scores.

The College Board, which owns the SAT, has said repeatedly that the final scores would be as reliable as if the entire test had been graded because the SAT is designed to collect enough information even if the entire test is not scored. Shortly after the June 6 test printing error was discovered, the College Board said it would not score one section, but then said two sections would be discarded. That, according to FairTest, or the nonprofit National Center for Free and Open testing, represents 22 percent of the SAT.

Students and parents have been calling the College Board asking for a free make-up of the SAT and/or refunds. One Long Island, N.Y., student named Julia Ellinghaus filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court seeking class-action status for all June 6 SAT test-takers against the College Board and the Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, according to the New York Daily News in this story. She is seeking unspecified monetary damages and suggests that students be able to retake the test for free.


 
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