Editing SAT (section)

== Reuse of old SAT exams ==
The College Board has been accused of completely reusing old SAT papers previously given in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001173_2.html |title=Old SAT Exams Get Reused |newspaper=Washington Post |first=Justin |last=Pope |access-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105094931/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001173_2.html |archive-date=November 5, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>  The recycling of questions from previous exams has been exploited to allow for cheating on exams and impugned the validity of some students' test scores.  Test preparation companies in Asia have been found to provide test questions to students within hours of a new SAT exam's administration.<ref name="ReutersPrep1">{{cite web|author1=Renee Dudley|author2=Steve Stecklow|author3=Alexandra Harney|author4=Irene Jay Liu|title=As SAT was hit by security breaches, College Board went ahead with tests that had leaked|website=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/|access-date=November 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922053915/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/|archive-date=September 22, 2016|date=March 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="ReutersPrep2">{{cite web|author1=Renee Dudley|author2=Steve Stecklow|author3=Alexandra Harney|author4=Irene Jay Liu|title=How Asian test-prep companies quickly penetrated the new SAT|url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-two/|website=Reuters|access-date=November 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018053802/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-two/|archive-date=October 18, 2016|date=March 28, 2016}}</ref>

On August 25, 2018, the SAT test given in the United States was discovered to be a recycled October 2017 international SAT test given in China. The leaked [[PDF]] file was on the internet before the August 25, 2018, exam.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sat-exam-leaked-20180827-story.html|title=Taking the SAT is hard enough. Then students learned the test's answers may have been leaked online|last=Vives|first=Ruben|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 28, 2018|access-date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044705/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sat-exam-leaked-20180827-story.html|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>