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. 高校招生人員在美國馬薩諸塞州和其他地方昨天一窩蜂處理與應用的數以千計的學生的SAT成績過低，由於技術故障，其中一個最大的錯誤，取得了前所未有的，對高風險性考試。

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，一台電腦，而是真的有一個人的背後，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.這是涵蓋紐約時報昨天，但現在波士頓環球報有一些有趣的筆記，它是如何影響麻省理工學院等。

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.官員在美國大學理事會，負責管理測試時說，技術故障導致的錯誤大約4000名學生於2005年10月的測試，以致有些學生得不到信貸，為他們的一些正確的答案。 …

The College Board said that 83 percent of the incorrect scores were too low by 40 points or less.大學理事會說， 83 ％的不正確分數過低，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個百分點，涉及100點或以上，並有16名學生的得分超過200分，對2400點考試。

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