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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]2. There needs to be a notation that additional test time was utilized by the test taker.[/quote]
Nope.  HIPPA, ADA, etc.[/quote]

There is no requirement that an accomodation not be disclosed.  They have to be provided.  They should be disclosed.

Further, and more to the point, the problem is not so much a kid getting to take an extra hour for the exam.  Rather, poor kids and middle class kids who do not have the resources to get outside tutoring, or to take multiple tests, multiple times.  Isn't a kid from not so great inner city schools who pulls a 25 on the one time they took the ACT way, way ahead of a kid who gets a 34 on their 4th time after 20 hours of outside tutoring?[/quote]
Then College Board should not have purposely made the exam based even more on knowledge (specifically, Common Core and the quality of the high school education) rather than ability and even more amenable to prep than it already was.  The test has changed multiple times over the past 20-30 yrs to get rid of the aptitude angle, so much that SAT ceased to be an acronym a long time ago now.  College Board even promotes a study whereby Khan Academy users gained an average of something like 100 pts with some particular number of hours of use.

Anyone with access to a computer and a little guidance can find 8 official practice tests online for free (or get the book from the library), not to mention another several QAS available on reddit.  The motivation part a lot of kids of all income levels struggle with, but [i]college guidance[/i] is what seems especially to fall short for poor kids -- they don't know what they don't know.  (That part I find heartbreaking.  It takes a certain level of curiosity and determination to even begin to hunt down college admission info and wisdom on the web, not to mention time.  As a parent, I have plenty of time to do that, but most teens do not.)[/quote]

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