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Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD)
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The College Board
is committed to ensuring that students with disabilities
receive appropriate accommodations when taking the SAT
Reasoning Test™. Some of our Services for Students with
Disabilities (SSD) testing procedures have been modified for
the new test.
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Students who are
approved for 50% extended time will test in the test centers
on the same day as students who do not test with
accommodations. Students approved for 100% extended time will
test in a school-based setting over a two day period—sections
1-4 will be administered on day one; sections 5-9 on day two.
To make the test day shorter for all students who test with
extended time, the unscored variable section has been removed,
so extended-time testers will have only 9 sections on the
test.
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Further, SSD SAT®
test-takers, like all other SAT test-takers, will have each
section of the test timed separately. This means that in each
section of the test, SSD test-takers are to be given their
full amount of extended time. They no longer will need to pace
themselves through the test. Instructions will be included in
the SAT manuals.
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Students with a
disability that requires the use of a computer for typing
essays, and who have received prior approval from the College
Board, may use a computer on the essay portion of the new SAT
Reasoning Test. Essays will be limited to two typed pages,
although students requiring accommodations for large print
test materials will be allowed additional pages as
appropriate. Students using computers will not be allowed to
use computer functions such as grammar check, spell check, cut
and paste, dictionary, and thesaurus. Scoring supervisors will
receive specialized training to ensure that typed essays are
not looked upon differently from handwritten essays.
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For more
information on the College Board's program for SSD students,
please visit www.collegeboard.com/ssd.
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