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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]460/470 for mine but he left a fair amount blank.  He will get extended time on the real thing so i think he will be able to finish and bring his scores up.

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How come he didn't have extended time for this exam? Did the College Board not get back to him in time for accommodations? We only have an 8th grader, but he'll need accommodations, and I'm wondering what's in store for him.[/quote]

If you have thorough and recent evaluations documenting the disability and a history of needing and using the accommodations in high school regularly you shouldn't have a hard time getting them from the College Board. Your child's IEP coordinator (or guidance counselor for a 504) will help but have them start early. If the College Board wants more data (updated testing, information from classroom teachers) you don't want to be scrambling at the last minute. [/quote]

Plan to get updated testing done in the middle of 8th grade so you can submit it to the 9th grade SSD at high school, in time for the PSAT in October.  It takes roughly 11 weeks to hear back from the College Board once the school submits the accommodations request.[/quote]

I'm the top PP here.  If you get your child's testing done in 8th grade, you'll need to have it redone before college, as colleges only give accommodations for students who have testing using adult tests, given after their 16th birthday and within 3 years of enrolling.

In my child's case, we knew that the scores on the PSAT wouldn't put him into National Merit range.  He's just not that kind of student.  Therefore, we chose to take the 10th grade test without accommodations, (added bonus: 3 hours of stress instead of 4.5), and delay the neuropsych until the spring of 10th.  He'll still have time for a PSAT, and a couple rounds of SAT or ACT with accommodations, and I won't have to pay thousands of extra dollars for double neurospychs.  If we had had other reasons to do updated testing, then we might have gone ahead and submitted it, but we didn't.[/quote]

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