Should SAT, ACT tell why they cancel?

Anum Khan, a student at Whitney High School in Cerritos, writes:

Honestly, I only read the article “SAT, ACT cheats face no penalty” because it had those two acronyms in it: SAT and ACT.

The two that seem to rule high schoolers lives. And it turned out to be about cheating, another hot topic.

The article focused on the fact that if students were suspected of cheating on either test, their only consequence was a canceled score. Test makers said that they did not want to play the role of the disciplinarian, so they don’t prevent people from taking the test again.

Thus, a student whose score has been canceled can simply retake it, without any record of cheating, or consequence on their college application.

Obviously, the fact that students who cheat on the SAT and ACT can retake them (and that colleges never know that students have cheated in the first place) is disturbing. But what also bothers me is that the students never know what their tests are being canceled for.

Also obviously, I’m not advocating cheating. But shouldn’t students (and the colleges they apply to) know why a score was canceled? And what if it’s canceled when the student is applying to college (thus making it harder for a student to retake the SAT or ACT as easily as the article suggests).

And there’s always the small possibility that the student didn’t cheat.
Whether it is for a problem with the proctor, or with the actual test (other reasons why a score can be canceled without previous knowledge), or in fact for cheating, students deserve to know why their scores have vanished into thin air, and been canceled.

I would hope that the $45 students pay for the SAT, and $44.50 for the ACT, can pay for at least that service.