The "How to's" of Testing Accommodations
Learn more about testing with accommodations:
The Process
Step 1: Decide which test to take! (or take both)
Step 2: Decide which test date you would like to schedule
Step 3: Notify your school Accommodations Coordinator (Heather Prekup) that you have registered
Step 4: Notification of approval or denial
- To Learn more about the SAT go to: https://www.collegeboard.org/
- To Learn more about the ACT go to: http://www.act.org/
Step 2: Decide which test date you would like to schedule
- SAT: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/register/dates-deadlines
- Check the Accommodations deadline! https://www.collegeboard.org/students-with-disabilities/calendar
- ACT: http://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/registration.html
- Accommodations requests have to be submitted by the registration deadline!
Step 3: Notify your school Accommodations Coordinator (Heather Prekup) that you have registered
- SAT: Email the Accommodations Coordinator that you have registered for a test with the test date and the accommodations request deadline. Ensure you have allowed at least 2 weeks for the Accommodations Coordinator to gather and submit an accommodations request by the deadline. Also, make sure the school has a Consent Form For Accommodations Request signed and on file at school. If you have ANY additional documentation of disability that you are unsure if the school has on file please provide that.
- ACT: Email the Accommodations Coordinator that you have registered for a test and include the test date and the registration deadline. Ensure that you have allowed at least 2 weeks for the Accommodations Coordinator to gather and submit an accommodations request by the deadline. Also, make sure the school has a Consent To Release Information To ACT signed and on file at school. If you have ANY additional documentation of disability that you are unsure if the school has on file please provide that.
Step 4: Notification of approval or denial
- SAT: Once SAT has reviewed the accommodations request the student and SSD Coordinator are notified when a decision is made. In most cases, the student is sent the decision by postal mail. Students with a College Board My Organizer account who are registered for the SAT can view their decision letter by signing into My Organizer. If the parent’s email is also associated with the student’s My Organizer account, the student and parent receive an email when the decision letter is available, not a letter. If accommodations are approved, the decision letter includes an eligibility letter, containing test-by-test details. The decision and eligibility letters also include the student's eligibility code, which is needed for SAT registration. The SSD Coordinator is notified by email and can sign into SSD Online to read the decision letter.
- ACT: After ACT reviews a request for ACT-approved accommodations, an examinee-specific Accommodations Decision Notification is created in TAA. When the notification is available, the individual (Accommodations Coordinator) who submitted the request will receive an email. That individual should provide a copy to the examinee and/or parent(s)/guardian(s). The notification contains the:
- examinee’s name
- examinee’s personal identification number (PIN) for TAA
- accommodations approved (including any special authorizations), or not approved, as applicable
- reason accommodations are not approved, if applicable
Important to know!
- If you have been previously approved for accommodations you will register as normal using your SSD Eligibility Code for SAT accommodations or your PIN for ACT accommodations.
- SAT refers to the accommodations process as SSD, and ACT refers to the accommodations process as TAA.
- If you are approved for Special Testing (i.e. extended time over multiple days) the Accommodations Coordinator has to schedule your testing site.
- You can begin the accommodations request process before ever registering for a test!