The College Board also suggests that students who have "received accommodation for tests he or she took in school," consider taking tests with special accommodations.
A high school administrator at Harvard-Westlake, a prestigious private school in California which routinely sends students to Harvard College, said yesterday he was concerned that untimed test scores will now pass unnoticed when students are considered for admission.
Christopher Gragg, the SAT administrator at Harvard-Westlake, said unmarked scores will give an "unfair advantage to some students."
"As it is there is already more [untimed testing] than I feel there should be," Gragg said. "Why wouldn't you take 4.5 hours on an exam [if you could]?"
McGrath Lewis said she thinks Gragg's response is unfounded.
"Our experience has been that students taking untimed tests
rarely score much better (or worse) than they do on standard-administration," McGrath Lewis wrote.
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