I have heard of schools coaching pupils so that they get extra time and can give out 'emergency' extra time during the exam period with out having to go through any of the testing so long as they can kind of justify it. THAT is wrong.
I am very dyslexic (50% AT) and struggle to read things and have to have rest breaks due to breaking my writing fingers twice meaning that they seize up if I write for too long. To prove that I had to go for x rays, have a doctors note and had several tests to get those rest breaks, including writing to the point where my hand seized up- which is quite painful.
On the other hand, my best friend- who does have episodes of crippling anxiety- gets 25-35% extra time and rest breaks IN CASE she panics, which she more often than not doesn't. She is a very fast writer, has a high IQ and is generally really smart and I think that it is so unfair that she gets always gets extra time (which can be an additional 35 mins) to write when in most cases she has no need for it. The school gave it to her on her first exam with no testing required.
It sounds very b****y as we are best friends, but at the moment it is a constant source of tension between us, though I imagine this happens elsewhere too. It means that the playing field within extra time is even more unequal than it already would be from lumping together thousands of students into 3 general categories for 25%/35%/50% extra time and means that really the extra time does not give the students- who generally need it- the full benefit.