- Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:39 pm
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LSAT180Please,
Your question might also be put to specialized educational professionals. I'll answer from my own experience as an LSAT tutor, but you should talk with more than one person about this.
Most importantly, I think it matters what the extended time is for. The LSAC provides for a number of accommodations, and a time extension could be for more than one condition. For example, a "learning disorder" is not the same as an "physical disorder," and each test taker would need to use the extra time for different things.
My experience can be summarized as people with slower reading speeds and people with ADHD. I think having a slower reading speed will for most people simply expands our time recommendations, so that is a matter of practicing to discover good pacing. ADHD is more complicated, because speed often isn't the problem and it can be problematic to learn one's strengths and weaknesses if the explanation might be that one's condition interfered with the measurement.
Generally speaking, any test taker should focus on their strengths and near-strengths and adopt good guessing strategies on their weaknesses. I think that in cases like ADHD that using self-knowledge and trusted helpers to differentiate between the condition and strengths and weaknesses can help you learn what questions to focus on during the test. Beyond that, my experience is that ADHD testers are pretty similar to everyone else in terms of speed and skill on any individual question, they just need strategies for focus--strategies to make sure they're not wasting points doing questions while they are not focused!!! My opinion is that will differ from one individual to the next and that to a great extent you should be using self-knowledge and professionals who know you well. A teacher or tutor who is working with you closely can make better recommendations than I could make generally.
What I do suggest, without knowing more about your specific situation, is that our techniques concentrate on putting reading comprehension and logical reasoning into a fairly well-defined structure while you are reading the passages. You should try them out and see if they help you get through the material.
