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As the College Board races to score the final 1,600 exams from its problem-ridden October SAT test, a string of recent testing errors around the country has college and high school officials, testing experts, students and parents asking with rising urgency. The College Board's disclosure that at least 4,600 students out of 495,000 who took its October SAT test had scoring errors was followed this week by an $11 million settlement by the Educational Testing Service of a case involving scoring errors for 27,000 people on tests that more than half the states use for teacher certification. Gaston Caperton, the College Board president, said that when something like this occurs, they wanted to make sure they didn't create regulations or ways of doing things that increase costs and didn't improve the quality of service.