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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure your kid knows that [b]once they have extended time they have to use it.[/b]  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).[/quote]

This is true on the new SAT, but not true on the ACT if you have a multi-day or solo administration.  Also, even if you have accommodations, you can still register for a regular test administration and test without accommodations - it is the student's choice.  This might be useful in superscoring where a kid has a deficit that only appears in one domain - maybe they have dyscalculia and get extra time but are a super reader for which they don't need the extra time but get it anyway because it's too complicated to administer extra time by section.  So if they just want to retest in the RW score, they could register for regular time (although they would still have to do the Math sections.)

Also, in the SAT/ACT testing context, if a kid needs extra-time but can't hold it together for a 5 hour test, the answer to that problem is not to give up on extra-time but to ask for extra time and multi-day test administration.

You have to ask for multi day test administration in the IEP/504 meeting. They will initially refuse to put it in the plan saying "we don't decide that SAT does" or "we don't have tests that long at school, so we can't put it in the plan.". The latter is not exactly true - all HS offer AP, PSAT 9, PSAT10, PSAT/NMSQT and SAT as part of the school day, both for practice and "for real".  Students in AP are often administered practice tests in whole or part for an in class grade.  The school is therefore obligated to evaluate whether a child's disability creates some kind of testing maximum.  This is commonly expressed as "tests longer than X hours administered in multiple days" and/or "no more than X number of exams on the same day"

"Have to use accommodations" is also not true in school in general. Kids with accommodations are always free to decline to use their accommodations.  A teacher might ask the kid to sign a form saying they were offered the accommodation and declined.

I often see/hear of school teams leveling the "if you have this accommodation you must always use it" threat to discourage kids from taking accommodations.  They try to scare the family/student into not taking an accommodation because it will be too onerous overall.

You may not have meant it that way, PP, but I wanted to clarify, IME.

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