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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A study was done to see how students with and without disabilities do on the SAT with extra time. Extra time did NOT help all test takers whether disabled or not. It did help increase score for the highest scoring test takers. So for those students scoring in the 90th percentile rank, extra time absolutely can help boost their score. No one is begrudging extra time to a kid with cerebral palsy or a vision impairment with any score or a kid with a learning disability who scores in the 50th percentile rank. People are upset that some kids who are scoring 1350 of better (90th percentile rank) without the benefit of extra time are gaming the system to get accommodations like extra time to boost that 90th percentile into a 98th or 99th percentile score.

Wealthy families can afford to pay thousands to get their child tested. My cousin had her child tested right after he broke his arm and had a cast on his writing hand for 6 weeks. Surprise, surprise his processing speed was low. His ACT score went from 28 to 32 with extra time and private tutoring. An ACT score is the 89th percentile rank. If you can score better than 89% of high school students how disabled are you? Why should you get extra time? His percentile rank went up the the 97th percentile rank. [/quote]

Here is a link to the study
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED563027.pdf[/quote]

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