My son in 6th grade decided to take the SAT for mainly the math part. Signing up was a nightmare- our local high schools DO NOT have the paper application anymore, and you must sign up via paper (not online) if you are under 13.
Repeated calls to the College Board led them to finally mail the application two weeks past the deadline, so we paid the extra fee.
I took him for the test. The head proctor said, "oh, you take the test over here alone!" I asked her why, as he has no accommodations, and she said they do that for children (he was the only child testing out of several hundred test-takers).
When I questioned her about that, she became defensive and said "okay, you have to leave now! You can't stay here since you are a parent."
Then she said, "oh, I see he gets extra time on the test!" I knew THAT was wrong, so I questioned her about that. After lots of haggling, she agreed, oh, you are right, he has no accommodations. He takes the test and feels good about it (almost 8 hours long, with the breaks).
Several weeks go by, and I can't get his scores. Lots of calls and emails to the College Board, lots of run around.
Finally, I get a human on the phone and they say, "oops, the proctor gave your son the WRONG TEST BOOKLET. We can't grade the test since he got the booklet for people with accommodations and he doesn't have accommodations."
Can you believe that??!! They won't grade the test. He can retake it, but he isn't sure he wants to do that again.