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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you explain students faking disabilities for extra time and doing better because of this? It’s not merely college aptitude. Everyone would do better w more time, especially on the ACT. Things are not standardized, unfortunately; and college’s don’t who has had extra time. It tests parental aggressiveness and wealth—who can pay $7k for neurological testing to shady doctors.[/quote]

Knock it off. Doctors are not this unethical as a whole. No one wants their kid to have a diagnosis if they don't have a disability and the number of people, including teachers, who have input in the evaluation process makes it highly unlikely that are as many "cheaters" as you want to believe there are. [/quote]

+1.  Believe me you would not want to be the kid with above average verbal/spatial intelligence but less than 1 percentile processing speed and poor working memory. For DS, this was due to preterm birth. He has to work many times harder, and give up other activities because it takes him a lot longer to finish things. He'd gladly take a regular testing timetable in exchange for having normal processing speed.  [/quote]

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