HELP - What to expect on PE disability accommodations?

[civil-kate]

I'm scheduled to take the Civil PE Transportation exam soon and am registered for disability accommodations for ADHD (private room, time and a half) and have no idea what to expect schedule-wise. I know it'll be broken out over two days, but do I get a break in those two six-hour sessions?

Literally any info on what disability accommodations looks like (esp. schedule-wise) would be a huge help. NCEES is no help on this matter and neither was my testing center. If you can even connect me to someone you know who took the exam with accommodations, I'd be forever grateful.

 

[Eng_Girl95]

Who told you the accommodations? As in how do you know you get time and a half over a two-day span?

Whoever told you that information should be able to tell you whether it's two continuous 6-hour sessions or not.

Because obviously they have to tell you how the exam is timed, how many questions are in each session, etc, just like for anyone else.

 

[civil-kate]

You'd think that would be obvious lol. Pearson VUE gave me the specifics about how much time I have and that it would be over a two day period, but were not able to tell me anything more about how many breaks I'd have or when they'd be. I checked online, checked every email, even called and spoke to a human. I would have expected the same, but like I said, they were very unhelpful.

 

[heretopass]

I have been thinking about using my ADHD as well for a disability room. I can not find anything either...have you searched these forums yet?

 

[civil-kate]

I have been thinking about using my ADHD as well for a disability room. I can not find anything either...have you searched these forums yet?

yes, didn't find anything helpful here. I did find a few reddit threads that I'll link below. One is about the FE and one the PE, but since they're both NCEES I think they're both applicable.

I will say, the process for getting accommodations with ADHD was difficult to say the least. They want a lot of evidence of how you've used accommodations in the past and proof that your ADHD makes you disabled - a diagnosis alone is not enough. I resubmitted my accommodations request probably three different times because they kept asking for additional information. By the end, I had submitted a letter from my therapist, psychiatrist, work supervisor, former college, and several forms and test results from my psychiatrist.

What I've learned form Reddit is that with time-and-a-half accommodations you have two days of testing that are six hours each. It *seems* that we get a one hour break per day at our discretion, and you can choose to use the whole break time or not. Have not gotten that confirmed by NCEES.