Students with accommodations
You have or need approved testing accommodations.
What's actually different about your situation
Your constraint is lead time, and it is longer than almost anyone expects. College Board's own planning guidance is to file at least six months out, and an IEP or 504 is not automatic approval — College Board decides separately against its own standard. A request that comes back needing more documentation can consume months by itself, and there is no expedited route.
The order to do it in
Sequence matters more than volume here. Doing step three first is the most common way this goes wrong.
File now for any test date inside the next six months, before you do anything about content.
Assume the school's SSD coordinator is doing the filing; if you are homeschooled, assume you are the coordinator and add weeks.
If you are approved for extended time, practise under the full duration — the current rule keeps you seated for the whole module rather than letting you move ahead.
Approved for text-to-speech? Buy wired, non-recording headphones well before test day.
By what you're aiming at
| Your goal | Start here |
|---|---|
| A first real score | Approval deadlines |
| Raise 100+ points | Study plan |
| Reach 1500+ | Pacing |
| National Merit | Merit cutoffs |
| Scholarship money | Score to dollars |
| Submit or withhold | Submit or not |
Start with a diagnostic, not a syllabus
A free full-length adaptive mock tells you which of the steps above is actually your bottleneck.