Court Backs Test-Taker in Suit Against ETS

By Jeanne Ponessa

The Educational Testing Service breached its contract with a student test-taker when it refused to consider his explanation for an unusually large increase in his SAT scores, the New York State Court of Appeals has ruled.

The state's highest court ruled 5-2 that the ETS failed to weigh relevant information Brian Dalton submitted to explain the 410-point jump in his scores after he took the Scholastic Aptitude Test a second time in 1991. Mr. Dalton said his scores improved after he...

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