Sat and PSAT, ACT - extra time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid knows that once they have extended time they have to use it. They cannot finish a section early and say they're done and move on, if it's a 40 minute section they must use 60 minutes (or take a nap for 20, I guess).

This is true and it makes for long and exhausting testing days. So you need to figure out whether extra time is a net benefit or detriment to your student. More os for AP tests, which take ~3 hours each to administer,, so 4.5 hours each for time and a half. so when you have two on one day, your kid gets not break in between tests, misses lunch, and by hour eight, how focused is your kid anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid knows that once they have extended time they have to use it. They cannot finish a section early and say they're done and move on, if it's a 40 minute section they must use 60 minutes (or take a nap for 20, I guess).

This is true and it makes for long and exhausting testing days. So you need to figure out whether extra time is a net benefit or detriment to your student. More os for AP tests, which take ~3 hours each to administer,, so 4.5 hours each for time and a half. so when you have two on one day, your kid gets not break in between tests, misses lunch, and by hour eight, how focused is your kid anymore?

This is why multi-day testing accommodation is offered by ACT and SAT - for APs (and school) you can have an accommodation that is "no more than X hours of testing" per day on an ISP or 504 or "no more than 1 test per day". This meant my DC had only 1 AP exam per day. School used the make up day for the other.

Or TBH, sometimes it's easier to self-accommodate on AP exams - kid goes home sick at lunch before the second AP test and then takes the makeup.