<p>Hi, I am a Junior in High School and have been diagnosed with ADHD or ADD as it is called now. I receive medication for it, and help from a Doctor.</p>
<p>I just recently herd from a friend who has the same situation as me that you can recive extra time for various tests (AP, ACT, SAT, ect)</p>
<p>My question is, is to late to request this extra time for the AP test which I am supposed to take around mid-May?</p>
<p>I know that these things can be lengthy, but as stated previously, I have been diagnosed by a psychologist as well as family Doctor, and have had my teachers fill out those behavior slips.</p>
<p>Any info pertaining to the AP test specifically would be great!.</p>
<p>If you have a diagnosed LD and a 504 plan on file with your school, and you are receiving the accommodation of extra time on your tests at school, then the liason person at your school who sends in the applications for SAT/AP/ACT accommodations should have had you fill out a form and applied for extra time on your behalf by the deadline. (You can check on the College Board/ETS websites to find the deadlines for this year, or ask at your school.) It sounds as if there was no application sent in for you, so your best bet might be to go straight to your school’s liason person (often a GC or assistant princ.) and find out if there’s anything they can do for you at this late date.</p>
<p>If you have not been receiving extra time on tests at school, and especially if the person who did your testing didn’t recommend that you receive extra time to compensate for a specific problem caused by the LD he diagnosed, then I think you’re going to have a real problem receiving extra time on SAT/ACT/AP exams. (The question will be, if accomodations weren’t recommended for you at school, and you haven’t needed or used them at school, then why do you need them on AP’s etc.) But again, go talk with the person at your school who handles this and see what they have to say.</p>
<p>The sad thing is that sometimes even students who have needed and used accommodations for many years at school still don’t get those accommodations from the ETS/College Board. And it tends to take many, many months to appeal an ETS decision, so your time frame may present a serious problem here.</p>