That's led to a case of sticker shock for test takers, nonprofits and states.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress does not report data on the family income of test takers.
U.S.-based business-school aspirants accounted for the largest number of test takers for the 12 months through June.
And 28% of test takers reported that English wasn't exclusively their first language, up from 24% in 2008.
Two years ago, she investigated a cheating ring on the SAT that led to tougher identification requirements for test takers.
The number of test takers jumped 32% to 6, 211 in 2011 from 2010, the most recent data available, according to district officials.
The latest report didn't include details of how the test takers scored.
Test takers sent scores to an average of 2.9 programs apiece.
Mr. Ewing said there were no planned migrations for the SAT to a computerized format because it would be impossible to accommodate the average 3 million test takers on any given test date.
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The errors affected 4, 735 children, or 13.2% of test takers, who are now eligible for gifted programs, including 2, 037 students who are newly eligible for elite schools that accept students from across the city who scored in the 97th percentile or above.
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a news release that without the change, New York would have had to pay the GED test maker twice as much or limit the number of test takers because state law bars residents from being charged to take the equivalency exam.
He added that the School of Management accepts GRE test-takers at the same rate as it accepts GMAT-submitting applicants.
The collaborating test-takers were caught call-phones in hand, and administrators were given a clear data trail of the more than 140 offenders.
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For test-takers who fail a section, the computerized version provides details about what skills they need to work on before retaking the exam.
Demand is so strong in Hong Kong that AIMR has rented the cavernous Hong Kong Convention Center to accommodate the 3, 902 test-takers expected this June.
Students are compared with a national sample, which means about 11% of kindergarten test-takers in the city received scores in the 99th percentile this year.
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Nearly 11% of test-takers entering kindergarten scored well enough to land in the 99th percentile, which was based on a combination of local and national samples.
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The city of Chicago is today selecting firefighters randomly from a huge (around 18, 000) list of applicants who had passed a test-a test that 77% of test-takers passed.
Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory.
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Officials at ETS, which is the nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, along with high school and college administrators, will have access to a new database containing test-takers' photos and identification information.
The former Aussie spinner, who is second only to Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in the list of all-time Test wicket takers, felt bowler Nathan Hauritz was not being helped by Ponting's field placings.
Nakamura was next to test the goalkeeper and there were no takers as Kello parried the ball across his own goalmouth.
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