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In a gaffe that officials acknowledged was embarrassing to the state and even more humiliating to the test publisher, CTB/McGraw-Hill, three questions on the seventh-grade sample test and one question on the eighth-grade sample test reappeared on the real exams, which are being administered this week to about 200,000 students in each grade. Officials in Albany and at CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey, Calif., issued terse statements last night promising to adjust for the mistake in the scoring of the exams. CTB/McGraw-Hill has a five-year, $22.5 million contact to publish the New York State exams through 2009. In 2002, New York City declined to renew a contract with CTB/McGraw-Hill, which had published the city's standardized reading exam, after a series of highly publicized disputes over possible scoring errors. Officials in Albany and at CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey, California, issued short statements promising to adjust for the mistake in the scoring of the exams. Kelley Carpenter, a spokeswoman for CTB/McGraw-Hill, allowed that it had prepared both the sample tests and the actual exams. CTB/McGraw-Hill has a five-year, $22.5 million contact to publish the New York State exams through 2009.