SAT – Verifying Your Scores

The Question-and-Answer Service includes:

• A booklet copy of the SAT questions and a report showing your answers from the specific test administration
• The correct answers and additional scoring instructions
• Information about the type and difficulty of test questions

*If you are testing in October or March with school-based accommodations and wish to receive the QAS, call the SSD office at least two weeks in advance of test day to see if arrangements can be made.
The Question-and-Answer Service is not available for makeup test administrations, alternate date testing, or U.S. military personnel testing under the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) program.
Order Student Answer Service if Question-and-Answer Service is unavailable.

Ordering Info

• During test registration: If you plan to use the Question-and-Answer Service to study for the next scheduled test date, in many cases, the paper materials may not arrive until after the next scheduled test date. Beginning in March, materials will be available online as part of your score report.
• Up to five months after your test date: If you didn’t order Question-and-Answer Service with your registration, there are three ways you can order:
  1. Order online by signing into your College Board account and selecting Order Verification within My Scores.
  2. Call Customer Service at 866-756-7346 (U.S. and Canada) and 212-713-7789 (International).
  3. Download and submit the SAT answer verification services order form (.pdf/527KB).

Fees and Refunds

The Question-and-Answer Service fee is not refundable once the service has been fulfilled. You can request a refund if you are absent on test day.

The Student Answer Service includes:

• A report showing how you answered questions from the specific test administration
• Information about the type and difficulty of test questions

Actual test questions and answers are not included.

Ordering Info

• During test registration: If you plan to use the Student Answer Service to study for the next scheduled test date, in many cases, the paper materials may not arrive until after the next scheduled test date. Beginning in March, materials will be available online as part of your score report.
• Up to five months after your test date: If you didn’t order Student Answer Service with your registration, there are three ways you can order:
  1. Order online by signing into your College Board account and selecting Order Verification within My Scores.
  2. Call Customer Service at 866-756-7346 (U.S. and Canada) and 212-713-7789 (International).
  3. Download and submit the SAT answer verification services order form (.pdf/527KB).

Fees and Refunds

The Student Answer Service fee is not refundable once the service has been fulfilled. You can request a refund if you are absent on test day.

You can request a multiple-choice hand score verification or essay score verification, or both, up to five months after test day by printing and completing a request for SAT score verification form (.pdf/568KB). Please read the information on the form carefully before deciding to request this service.

Fees and Refunds

There is a score verification fee required to cover the costs associated with verifying your scores. If you used a fee waiver to pay SAT registration fees, the score verification fee will be reduced. The reduced fee is available upon request and is provided on the Request for SAT Score Verification form.
We will refund your full score verification fee only if the change in scores was due to an irregularity in the scanning or scoring process.

Your Results

We will mail a letter confirming the results of your multiple-choice hand score verification or essay score verification within five weeks after your signed request and payment are received.

If you believe the answer sheet scanning process did not produce an accurate score, you may request a multiple-choice hand score verification. When hand scoring of a multiple-choice score is requested, your entire answer sheet will be manually reviewed. You cannot request verification of scores for a single section on the SAT or a single SAT Subject Test.
If your marks conform to the published instructions for marking the answer sheet, but there was an irregularity in the scanning or scoring process, your score may change. In this situation, your adjusted score will be automatically reported and your score verification fee will be refunded.
If we can determine that you made an obvious error in filling in the information on the answer sheet (such as, but not limited to, placing your answers in the wrong section of the answer sheet or improperly recording the test identifying code), your score may change. In this situation, your adjusted score will be automatically reported; however, your score verification fee will not be refunded.
Hand score verification is the most rigorous level of score verification. As such, it overrides other forms of score verification. If you order hand score verification, you will no longer see your full online score report and you will not have access to the Student Answer Service or Question-and-Answer Service for your hand scored answer sheet.
The hand score verification process is performed only once per test, using all information available. If you have information that you think could affect the results of the verification process, report it to Customer Service at the same time you submit the form.

The SAT scoring process includes an independent scoring of each essay by two qualified readers. If the two readers’ scores differ by more than one point, a scoring director will score the essay. This automatic validation ensures the accuracy of the essay scoring process.

If you choose to have your essay score verified, the College Board will determine whether there was an error in the scanning or processing of the essay scores assigned by essay readers. In this situation, your adjusted score is automatically reported and your fee is refunded. The score verification fee will not be refunded for essays written in pen.