<p>What have your experiences been with this? Does the extended time actually help? Have any of your kids taken the test both with and without extended time? What was their increase in score (if any)? My daughter took the SAT last Saturday with extended time, and it was grueling. 6 hours is a long long time. I dont yet know if she was able to keep up her focus and energy for the whole thing. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I definately saw an improvement when I took the SAT with extended time. Before taking the SAT for the first time, I took a prep course where they gave many timed practice tests. My highest score was an 1870. Although these tests aren't official, they certainly give you an approximation of your actual score on test day. When I officially took the SAT's (with not extra prep between my highest scoring practice test and the real thing), I tested with 50% extended time and my score was 2050! Almost a 200 point difference. I think the extra time made a huge difference, although I do agree that it's very hard to sit for six hours. I need the extra time because of a visual processing disorder and ADHD, yet the ADHD makes it hard to sit through the whole thing! It really takes a lot of energy, focus, and determination, but I feel it's totally worth it.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the reply. Your score on the first one was just about what she got on the PSAT, so I'm thinking she might improve about the same..at least I hope so! That 6 hours was brutal! She came out pale and exhausted, saying she'll never take that thing again.</p>
<p>i scored in the 60% percentile on the ssat without the extra time that i needed. When i got extra time i scored in the 95% on the PSAT, the 97% on the SAT and finally in the 99% (34) on the ACT.</p>
<p>I've just recieved my accomodation for the SAT, Subject Tests and AP's. Previously, with regular time, I scored a 1910 on the SAT, and at 640 on the Spanish. On timed practice tests, I scored a 770 on lit and a 710 on US. </p>
<p>I hope to retake the SAT 1 with extended time, and reach a 2100. I have never finished a math section, so hopefully this extra time will give me that boost.</p>
<p>Interesting thing is, I was diagnosed with a visual-spatial learning disability when I was 11, and have not been retested since. We got the accomodation at my school a coupla months ago, and sent in the form a week ago, I got word today that it had been confirmed.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be suprised if you did see a good jump in your math score. My math score is the one that holds me back (even with extended time). I wasn't even able to come close to finishing the math sections without extended time, and I usually would leave 10 - 15 in the math section blank! Now I leave only a handful blank, which definately helps my score! It's nice to hear that other people can relate! Good luck!</p>
<p>My D took the SAT with extended time, and scored almost the same as the PSAT with normal time. She lost points on Writing, and gained 70 points in CR, which was her weakness. She is thrilled with her 560, but will retake again in October to try to raise her math and writing up from 680 and 620. Those two scores didn't seem to be helped by the extra time at all. She scored 68 in math on the PSAT. Funny. This seems to bear out what I have always thought: extended time will help a kid where he/she really needs it, but won't raise the score much where he/she doesn't need the time.</p>
<p>I believe that I will see a score jump in my math. I also think that the PSAT is not a good indicator of future performance. On mine, I got 172, with a 490 in writing and a 670 in math. On the real SAT, first time, I got 610 in math, and a 660 in writing. </p>
<p>I find that I have trouble going through the passages at full speed, and I know that I'm capable to doing very well, I scored a 770 on lit.</p>
<p>My D scored pitifully low in PSAT's without accommodation (equivalent to 300's) When she took SAT's with double time, scored 410, 460, 520. Never the less, she applied to SAT optional schools (she had a 3.67 HS cum).</p>
<p>She got accepted to good schools, she got scholarships...we make way too much of SATs. </p>
<p>What's most important, she just finished her freshman year on the Dean's List.</p>
<p>Can't report on D's "jump" since she never took the P/SAT w/o ext-time. D did VERY well on both exams (NMS commendation; took SAT only once).</p>
<p>Friends' kids have had incred "jumps," too - - especially w/ ext-time in conjunction w/ specialized SAT prep.</p>
<p>For some (like ahoo2u, above) the SAT is no big deal, but a good score is essential if a student wants to attend a top 25 LAC. Even at SAT optional schools (Bowdoin, for one), students are presenting scores from some standardized test (AP scores, SAT II, PSAT), since high schools vary so much in terms of curric and rigor.</p>
<p>Also, many schools use composite gpa and SAT to award merit $.</p>
<p>We have limited evidence. My son took a Kaplan or Princeton Review come-on test without extra time and received scores in the 600's except writing which if I remember correctly was in the high 500's. He's not yet taken the PSATs or SAT Reasoning tests because I wanted to wait for him to get the accommodations (which took a year). </p>
<p>With accommodations, he received a 98th percentile score on the SSAT's a few years ago and this year received 800's on the SAT Subject tests in Chemistry and Math 2. He is pretty confident he got a 5 on the AP Chemistry Exam -- he believes he only missed one question.</p>
<p>So, while the evidence is imperfect, I'd say the boost is at least 100 points per section.</p>
<p>****ing corrupt, that’s incorrigable</p>
<p>Does the fact that a student took the SAT with extended time affect his college admission? Does anyone know whether the extended time is noted on his/her application?</p>
<p>It is not noted anywhere, including the score report, that a student had extended time or other accommodations.</p>
<p>Returning to this with more data. Per my much earlier post, my son took a Kaplan or Princeton Review come-on test with no practice and got in the 600s in math and reading and 500s in writing (see above). He is a blazingly smart kid with severe dyslexia and slow processing speed and desperately needs extra time. He did not take any test prep courses but followed the xiggi method and prepared half a day every day for three weeks. With extra time, he got a 800 M, 760 R, 760 W on his first and only try. Improvement of 100 - 200 points per section. I don’t know how to disentangle the effects of extra time and the effects of studying, but extra time is essential for him.</p>
<p>My daughter took the PSATs twice. The first time with no extra time. Her scores were: 52 CR, 54 Math, and 40 Writing. She was diagnosed with ADHD. The second time, she had extra time and took Ritalin . Her scores the second time were 65 CR, 64 Math, and 52 Writing. Improvement of the SAT-equivalent of 100 to 130 points per section, but in her case I attribute a fair bit of the improvement to Ritalin. Maybe 50/50.</p>