SAT with aacommodations

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>My daughter took the SAT on March 9 , 2013. She had special accommodation in the sense she could take breaks when needed with the clock stop /clock start mechanism. That is, whenever she took a break, her clock would be stopped and then as soon as she got back, the clock was resumed so that in summary, she got the same amount of time as everybody else except with breaks as needed.</p>

<p>Now, she seems to have done very well in Writing and Reading and she said she could not even look at about 5 problems in the Math sections. And she was very much leaning towards cancelling her scores because of the Math section. She felt Math was kind of hard. In all her practice tests, she used to get in 700s for Math but she saw that her Math test this time was way different when compared to her practice tests. So, I am not even sure if the Math was generally hard in the test on March 9, 2013?</p>

<p>I prevented her from cancelling the scores since she had done pretty well in Writing and Reading. Here are my questions:
0) Do you think we did the right thing by not cancelling?
1) Does anyone know if the curve could work to her advantage if the Math section was hard overall for everyone?
2) Do children with accommodations get a different test when compared to normal kids? If yes, would the curves be different for different sets of students?</p>

<p>Thank you </p>

<p>RS</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t have cancelled my score. I took it on the 9th, as well, and, likewise, I skipped more than a few of the math questions. It seems like a normal thing to do… Otherwise, they wouldn’t take away points for getting the question wrong (and thus, some would argue, encourage guessing over “admitting defeat” ), right?</p>

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<li>Yes. Even if this isn’t her highest score, she could take another one and use it as a super score.<br></li>
<li>It definitely will. I took the March one and it was definitely one of the hardest math sections I’ve taken so the curve should be pretty good as CollegeBoard, contrary to popular belief, needs some people to get 800s.</li>
<li>I doubt they give different tests. I’m pretty sure they grade everyone the same.</li>
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