Most Students With Disputed SAT Scores Will Retake Exam

A majority of a group of Calabasas and western San Fernando Valley high school students whose scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test were invalidated because of a possible unfair advantage will retake the test this weekend, exam officials said.

The officials said most of the approximately 20 students chose to retake the exam, a broad test of verbal and math skills that plays a key role in determining college admission.

The students were ordered in December to retake the SAT or have their scores canceled by the Educational Testing Service, the Princeton, N.J.-based company that administers the exam nationwide.

After conducting an on-site investigation at Calabasas High School, the agency concluded that about 20 students “may, inadvertently, have had prior access to test questions in study material they received” from a private tutor before the SAT was administered at the school Oct. 10.

The “vast majority” of those students have agreed to take a specially scheduled test Saturday at Occidental College, ETS spokesman Ray Nicosia said this week. Two students have requested cancellation of the questioned scores and will receive a refund.