An unusually high number of Advanced Placement exams were reported missing this summer after high school students took the exams in May.
Tom Ewing, a spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which scores the exams, said that roughly 1,500 exams or portions of exams remain missing and unscored. Ewing said that high schools are responsible for returning completed answer sheets to ETS, but some do so incorrectly or not at all.
The testing service is approaching the end of its search and will allow affected students to ask for a refund, take a retest or, if ETS has at least half of the exam, receive a projected score.
While a small fraction of exams are misplaced each year, the number this year is higher than usual Ewing said.
