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[quote=Anonymous]Your psychological report should contain a specific recommendation for testing time and conditions and not just say "extended time," so the judgement is not left up to the school to make.

Typically if the psych recommends X time under Y conditions, the school or testing service will have to give it to you.

One warning -- while you want the school to implement the psych report recommendations as part of a 504 or IEP right away (which means you have to consider how to time the request of those meetings so they are scheduled soon after the anticipated report) BUT, you don't want to request PSAT, SAT or ACT accommodations right away.  They typically frown upon newly implemented extra time accommodations in HS, so it is better to implement the recommendations at school and then wait 3-6m months to ask for the PSAT, SAT, ACT accommodations.

Many schools now ask 9th, 10th and 11th graders to take the PSAT, which is, frankly, ridiculous.  If the student is a rising 9th grader, I would skip the 9th grade PSAT and wait to put the testing accommodation request in until Spring of 9th grade year.

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