<p>I thought I knew everything there was to know about ETS/College Board accommodations, but I didn't know this and wanted to share it with other parents. I know this affects only a small group of you, but in case you don't haunt the LD board, I wanted to get the information out here.</p>
<p>If your LD or physically challenged child receives accommodations such that they are allowed to take the SAT over a period of two days, do not assume that the same two-day accommodation will prevail for the AP's. Apparently you have to apply separately for this, and the review process takes 5 to 7 weeks. Otherwise, the student must take each exam on one day, starting at the time posted for all students nationally. (For security reasons, the College Board will not let the student begin in the morning and take part of the test before lunch and part after, if the test is scheduled to start in the afternoon.)</p>
<p>This means that if your student receives 100% extended time with breaks, and they have an AP that is scheduled to begin at noon, that student may be taking the AP until 7 or 8 p.m. To avoid this situation, talk with the LD coordinator at your school and be sure that they send in a separate application for AP's to be taken over two days. </p>
<p>Every time I post about accommodation on the general board, I prepare myself to hear from some angry student convinced that at their school, dishonest kids buy LD diagnoses from unscrupulous doctors in order to cheat on standardized tests; let me assure said angry student that the population we're talking about here has had extensive test results scrutinized with a fine tooth comb.</p>