We did all talent search with our 2e kids without accommodations (Explore, SAT, ACT). Even for my dd who has had a 504 plan at school for yrs with extended time accommodations, we thought that there were some benefits to taking the talent search exams without the time extention so she could practice taking tests that were too difficult without enough time to try to learn to work as fast as possible for her and how to budget time on these types of tests.
To me, the only drawback to not requesting extra time was that her scores were a bit below DYS cuts and might have made the DYS requirement with extra time had we wanted to apply for her.
