College admissions officers in Massachusetts and elsewhere yesterday scrambled to deal with the applications of thousands of students whose SAT scores were too low because of a technical glitch, one of the biggest mistakes ever made on the high-stakes exam. 高校招生人员在美国马萨诸塞州和其他地方昨天一窝蜂处理与应用的数以千计的学生的SAT成绩过低，由于技术故障，其中一个最大的错误，取得了前所未有的，对高风险性考试。

Ooops! ooops ！ Someone有人 messed up messed了 . 。 Ostensibly, a computer, but really there’sa human behind it in the end.表面上看，一台电脑，而是真的有一个人的背后，它到底。 This was covered by the NYT yesterday, but now the Boston Globe has some interesting notes about how it affects Massachusetts colleges.这是涵盖纽约时报昨天，但现在波士顿环球报有一些有趣的笔记，它是如何影响麻省理工学院等。

Officials at The College Board, which administers the test, said technical glitches led to errors in roughly 4,000 students’ October 2005 tests, resulting in some students not getting credit for some of their correct answers.官员在美国大学理事会，负责管理测试时说，技术故障导致的错误大约4000名学生于2005年10月的测试，以致有些学生得不到信贷，为他们的一些正确的答案。 …

The College Board said that 83 percent of the incorrect scores were too low by 40 points or less.大学理事会说， 83 ％的不正确分数过低，以40分或更少。 Five percent involved 100 points or more, and 16 students’ scores were more than 200 points off on the 2,400-point exam. 5个百分点，涉及100点或以上，并有16名学生的得分超过200分，对2400点考试。

Sucks to be one of those ~4,000 people, I suppose. sucks为被其中一人〜 4000人，我猜想。