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Disability Services

Klump Academic Center, Rm. 148 · (570) 320-5225

Testing Accommodations

To access testing accommodations through Disability Services, a student must provide documentation of his/her disability, which should include recommendations for accommodations. Testing accommodations may include extended time testing or oral testing with test readers, scribes, and computer access.

Procedure for Testing Accommodations

It is the students’ responsibility to:

  1. Request testing accommodations.
  2. Schedule a test through Disability Services. Testing must be requested and scheduled a minimum of three working days before the test date/time.
    • A blue Testing Accommodations form is filled out by Disability Services staff and includes the test date and time being requested by you. You must pick up a form for each test.
    • Disability Services has the right to not accommodate a student for a particular test without three working days notice.
  3. Give the Testing Accommodations form to the instructor at least three working days before the test.
    • Instructors need time to get the test to Disability Services.
    • Instructor delivers or mails test to Disability Services.
  4. Report to the Klump Academic Center, Room 148 for testing at requested date/time.
    • Please be prompt! If you are late for the appointed time to take your test, the amount of time you are late will be deducted from the extended time given for the test.
    • If you cancel a test due to illness or related personal reasons, you must alert the instructor of your intentions and re-schedule the test with Disability Services by completing another Testing Accommodations form.
    • When the instructor changes the test date, it is your responsibility to re-schedule the test for another date.
    • Any test that has been re-scheduled more than three times will be returned to the instructor.

Disability Services reserves the right to temporarily suspend test accommodations if the testing procedure is abused.

NOTE: Penn College provides a Finals Week in which exams are administered in 3-hour blocks. Students accessing Disability Services are given extended time of 4-½ hours for these exams. While this is usually more than enough time to complete final exams, if you need even more time to complete a final examination, a time extension can be given on a case-by-case decision. Disability Services has the option to remove the test from the student when the extended time accommodation has been met. When scheduling for final exams, give yourself plenty of time between tests so that the finals do not overlap and the 4-½-hour time frame can be accommodated.