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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some students 100% need accommodations. Some do not not. 30% of our all girls private gets extra time for a variety of issues, the largest group being anxiety. Some of them have extreme anxiety some do not. Fast forward to how these kids do in college: a subset of them, not near the majority, scored significantly higher and got into more rigorous colleges than they could handle, colleges where most have over 1450 easily. Even with extra time in college, it does not help for classes that give 4 hours to everyone for a very difficult calc final that most finish in 90 minutes. 4 hrs or even more than 4 would not help them. But boy did it help them on the ACT and SAT and high school tests, so yes they had high school stats that were overinflated. That is not the majority of cases from where I sit (high school teacher with gifted ed and special ed training): most extra time is legit. It just stings when it is not or when it is exaggerated. Moving to zero time pressure tests, as many colleges have done, is the best solution for high school and SAT/ACT.[/quote]

Extra time for “anxiety” is a total scam. The actual therapy for anxiety is esposure, not avoidance. [/quote]

There were so many girls who got extra time for anxiety, beginning in 11th grade at our all-girls private.  My daughter knows about a half dozen.  It's the biggest scam of all.  [/quote]

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