SAT Glitches Prompt Broader Testing Worries

On the heels of revealing that it had mistakenly reported lower scores for 4,000 students—and higher scores for 600—who took the SAT in October, the College Board admitted last week that a batch of 1,600 answer sheets was not rechecked as part of a corrective effort launched when the first round of errors was discovered.

As College Board spokeswoman Chiara Coletti said, “It’s been very embarrassing.”

Ms. Coletti said Pearson Educational Measurement, the Iowa City, Iowa-based testing company that scored the SAT answer sheets, had been asked to put in “more-rigorous quality controls” to remove any glitches that had led...