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ACT test extended time and other accommodations

You can get extended time on the ACT test, or other accommodations, but ACT must approve them before you test, and you request them through your school. Starting with June 2026, the request deadline is the regular registration deadline for your test date. Accommodations aren’t shown on the scores colleges get.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

How to request extended time on the ACT test

  1. Link your high school to your MyACT account, register, and answer Yes when asked if you need accommodations.
  2. Forward the email ACT sends you to your school official, with a signed Consent to Release Information to ACT form.
  3. Your school submits the request. It should match the support you already get in school.
  4. ACT sends its decision to your school. If you’ve heard nothing after 10 business days, ask your school.
  5. Once approved, print your admission ticket and check that it shows your accommodations.

National testing or special testing

Some accommodations, such as time and one-half in a single session, and all English learner supports can be given at a regular test center on the national date. ACT lists the exact section timings in its Section Test Timings for Accommodations document.

If what you need can’t be given at a national center, for example testing over more than one day, you take the ACT through special testing, usually at your own school, within a set window. From June 2026 that window is nine days. Special testing scores come out after the window closes.

Deadlines and other cases

  • Request by the regular registration deadline for your date. Appeals have to meet that deadline too.
  • Homeschooled or not enrolled in a school: ACT has a separate process on its accommodations pages.
  • A temporary problem, like a broken arm: email ACTAccom@act.org for a request form.
  • Standby testers can’t get accommodations.
  • Questions: ACT’s accommodations line is (319) 337-1332, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central.

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