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Understanding the SAT Test
Security Guidelines
Test Security Is Your Security
The College Board and our test administration
partner ETS have test security policies that are
designed to:
 Give every student a standardized and fair test
 Prevent anyone from gaining an unfair advantage on
test day
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Ensuring Test Security and Fairness
The College Board and ETS have multiple tools and
processes in place to deter and detect testing
irregularities.
We work to prevent:
 Test-taker impersonation
 Copying answers from other test-takers
 Communication between test-takers
 Theft of test questions and answers
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How Test Security Works
Here are some of the tools we use:
 Standardized test
procedures and secure test
materials
 Regulated seating
arrangements and seat
assignments
 Active proctoring in testing
rooms to closely observe
test-takers
 Prohibition of cell phones
and other electronic devices
that could be used to share
test items or answers
 Multiple ID and Admission
Ticket checks throughout the
test center
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 Analysis of test data to
identify suspicious answer
patterns or widely variant
scores
Information for Students
 Students will be prompted to submit an acceptable photo during registration.
 Students must indicate their date of birth, gender, high school code and
grade level when they register.
 Test day changes and standby testing are not allowed.
 Most students will be required to submit an acceptable photo to register.
Registrations that are missing any required information or an acceptable photo
will be returned unprocessed.
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Registering for the SAT® and
SAT Subject Tests™
A student must provide a photo to register. The photo must be a
recognizable image of the test-taker. Photos become part of the
student’s Admission Ticket.
Online registration:
 Students upload a digital photo for online registration.
 Online registrations without information in all required fields cannot be completed.
Paper registration:
 Students tape an acceptable photo to the paper registration form.
 Paper registrations without all required fields completed will be returned unprocessed.
All photos must meet College Board photo requirements, which can be found in
the Registration Guide for the SAT and SAT Subject Tests or online at
sat.org/photo-requirements.
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The Admission Ticket with Photo
 The student’s
photo becomes
part of the
Admission Ticket.
 The student must
bring the ticket
along with
acceptable photo
ID for entry to the
test center.
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On Test Day
To enter the testing site, a student must present:
 An acceptable government- or school-issued photo ID
 A printed copy of his or her SAT® Admission Ticket or SAT Waitlist Ticket
IMPORTANT NOTES:
 The SAT Student ID Form is available if a student does not have an acceptable
ID. The counselor can go to satresourcecenter.collegeboard.org/registration to print
a blank form and follow the instructions for creating an acceptable photo ID for the
student.
 The name on the photo ID must exactly match the name on the Admission Ticket, and
the photo on the ticket and ID must clearly resemble the test-taker’s appearance.
Learn more at sat.org/test-day.
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Informing Students
Student Flyer
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More Online and Printed Resources
Registration Guide
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Test day policies and requirements can be
found at sat.org/test-day.
What You Can Do to Ensure Test Security
and Fairness
Learn about the College Board’s Test Security and Fairness policies at
sat.org/test-day.
Report any suspected violation of these policies to the Office of Testing
Integrity:
 On test day only, call 800-257-5123.
 At any time, you can report violations by fax or email:
– Fax: 609-406-9709
– Email: testsecurity@info.collegeboard.org
We need your help — if you see something, say something!
All information will be held strictly confidential.
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SAT® Test Security
To learn more, visit sat.org/test-day.
THANK YOU!
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