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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC had a reader and a scribe accommodation form the college board, it comes with 50% more time.  This is because it takes longer to take a test with a reader and a scribe.  There is a delay from when one person reads a questions and when the next person hears it.  There is also a delay when the test taker tells the scribe the answer and the scribe bubbles it in, or in the case of the essay - when the scribe writes/types it out.

For those who only have 50% extra time, they are in a room with everyone less with that accommodation and they have to sit tight for the full time for each section just like in the classrooms where they have 100% of the time.  That makes for a very long day.

For those of you proposing that everyone receives the extra 50%, would your DC’s be able to sit tight for that extra time, even if they did not need it in the first place?  [/quote]

Yes as they will be able to check their answers or do that extra question since they will have more time[/quote]

You really want to subject your child to six hours of testing when four hours will do? What are the chances if DC changing a correct answer t a wrong answer thus nullifiying the one changed to the correct answer?  [/quote]

You guys know that for SAT math and science and the ACT tests, the more time one has, the higher the scores since these tests require speed? With more time, a kid can do the questions carefully and avoid silly mistakes. With more time, a kid can have time to do ALL the questions.[/quote]

+1000.  Some of the accomodations is the ability to use a calculator. How is that fair?[/quote]

How is it unfair?[/quote]

let everyone have a calculator. what accommodation would you want then?[/quote]

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