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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we have accommodations at all, except in severe cases? I understand if you're blind and need the test read to you, or you have a phsyical disability and can't easily fill in the circles on the sheet -- then extra time seems warranted.

But isn't the goal of the test to measure against other students? Why not have the same testing environment for all then? I realize some will score poorer than others, but isn't that exactly what it's trying to measure?

As an employer, if an aptitude test reflects your job duties, then it's useful to know how much you can accomplish within a fixed amount of time, because that's part of the job.[/quote]

I agree with you, especially when it comes to "processing speed."  Plenty of parents will argue that their kid needs accommodations due to slower processing speed ... [b]when in fact, processing speed is one thing the SAT is SUPPOSED to measure. [/b] [/quote]

Got any direct evidence that it’s supposed to measure processing speed? [/quote]

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