FRESNO, Calif. — Seventeen-year-old Antonio Evans, who lives with ADHD, has chosen to take the Adaptive Adaptive SATs rather than the standard Adaptive SATs.
Evans' IEP gives him the option to take the twice-adapted college placement examination. Ever since the move to digital, College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers the SATs, has stopped giving the Adaptive Unadaptive or the Unadaptive Unadaptive SATs in favor of the Adaptive Adaptive or Unadaptive Adaptive SATs.
“I assumed I would be taking the Adaptive SATs while everyone else took the SATs,” said the Fresno High School junior. “Now everyone else is taking the Adaptive Unadaptive SATs and I'm going to take the Adaptive Adaptive SATs.”
The Adaptive Adaptive and Unadaptive Adaptive SATs alter the difficulty of questions depending on how well the student has been doing, whereas the Adaptive Unadaptive and Unadaptive Unadaptive SATs keep the questions static.
Last year, Evans took the Unadaptive Adaptive PSATs. But now that it's time for the SATs, he wants to go with the Adaptive Adaptive option.
“I think I deserve to use the accommodations in my IEP,” said Evans. “If they can adapt the Unadaptive SATs to adapt to digital, they can adapt the Adaptive SATs to adapt to my needs.”
College Board declined to comment, as they were busy adapting the Adaptive ACT to create the Adaptive Adaptive ACT.