<p>Okay, my kid has special needs and always has extended time. She has been approved for SAT, but I think ACT will be easier for her, hence I plan to apply accommodation for ACT for extended time or multiple days, I don’t see a problem because of her records.</p>
<p>However, I really like to see how she does without the accommodation, hence I registered her to take the test as homeschool.
But I am not too sure …
a. will taking the test without accommodation hurt her chances of getting an accommodation? (I don’t expect her to do good but just to practice)
b. I also do not want the school to know, is it possible to to create a different login next year when she registers and applies for accommodation to test?
will ACT combine both accounts and will the school know about ?</p>
<p>a. It didn’t hurt my son to take the PSAT and SAT and SAT subject tests with no accommodations and then apply for accommodations with the College Board. He did improve on his subject tests with the accommodations, and we are waiting for SAT results. It does not appear that the College Board cared at all.</p>
<p>b. It sounds like you are lying that your daughter is home-schooled. Caveat emptor on that, because you are taking her out of her school’s standardized test pool. If your daughter has the exact same birthdate, home address, SS number, and other info, how do you think they would assume she is two different people?</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d sign her up, put the school correctly, and tell her school that you didn’t have enough time to get accommodations, but you and she think she should try it without accommodations.</p>
<p>Some additional notes: In my son’s case, his school 504 plan was not in place, and we truly didn’t have time to get him accommodations for the tests when he wanted to take them. It is VERY clear based on recent College Board testing with accommodations that he needs them (significant improvement without additional studying).</p>
<p>Also, it is highly likely your daughter will be allowed to get extended time for exams in college, so why would you deprive her of that for the ACT?</p>
<p>We chose not to have my son do the ACT, because the process to get accommodations approved seems much harder and much more time-consuming than for the College Board tests.</p>
<p>I don’t know if same holds for ACT registration, but for College Board registration for SAT, once u register your name & birth date, the system will not permit u to make another account.</p>
<p>will the school have access to her account? the only reason I don’t want the school to know is because I have such bad relationship with the school that I think they tried to spin on anything and everything…
I know I will eventually apply for accommodations for her and will have to go through the school, they already gave me a hard time (not because she will not get accommodation ) but that because of my relationship with the school.</p>
<p>sorry, one more question… will ACT automatically send her score to the school whenever she takes the test? or will the school be notified whenever she takes the test?</p>
<p>When she lists the schools she wants her scores send upon registration,her schools will be notified and sent the test when she finishes taking the test and the scores are out.When scores are released,they are sent to the school at same time.</p>
<p>sorry, I meant high school…
Will her high school know how many ACT she takes or what her scores are?</p>
<p>I will let you know that from personal experience, it is much harder to get accommodations for the ACT as compared to the SAT. DS1 got accommodations (with his excellent documentation) for the SAT’s. He was immediately turned down for the ACT extra time accommodation, though there did seem to be an appeal process whereby additional info could be submitted. Luckily that year, his May SAT scores appeared before he had to take the June ACT and he did well enough that he never had to take the ACT. That was several years ago, but many people told me that this happened to their child as well. So for anyone reading this thread, make sure to register and send documentation well ahead of ACT test day, in case you need to provide additional info,appeal etc.</p>
<p>And other than checking home-schooled box, which I do not advise since it is not true, it is not really possible to avoid sending scores to ones’s HS. It is a shame that they are not your friends here. Ideally, you and the GC would be working as a team to decide what is best for your daughter and if it is best for your daughter to take it first without accommodations, they should be supportive of this plan. Is there a reason why this is not happening? Are they unreasonable? Have you been unreasonable/pushy? Or are they just overworked and not interested in what is best for the student?</p>