Requirements For Category B Documents

CATEGORY B Documentation:

Applicants seeking to provide Category B documentation often have received different accommodations in different settings.  Therefore, in order to render an individualized determination as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, an applicant seeking an accommodation by providing documentation solely under Category B must meet all of the requirements of this section. 

An applicant can provide official verification of approval for and receipt of accommodations on:

• a high-stakes, standardized professional licensure exam, including another jurisdiction’s bar exam, when the testing entity required all test-takers in a given administration to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, under the same testing conditions, and that is scored in a consistent manner across all test-takers for which an established score must be reached for licensure for a profession; and/or
• a nationally-administered standardized exam for purposes of admission to educational programs but not resulting in licensure, such as the ACT, SAT, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, or GRE, when the testing entity requires all test-takers in a given administration to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, under the same testing conditions, and that is scored in a consistent manner across all test-takers for which an established score must be reached for admission to an institution of higher education.

If the applicant is relying solely on Category B documentation, the applicant must provide these three pieces of information:

1. the most recent qualifying documentation available to the applicant that provides official verification (for example, accommodations received on another jurisdiction’s bar exam, the MPRE or the LSAT);
2. the explanation of the disability and functional limitations that formed the basis of that most recent qualifying documentation, which may be satisfied by an applicant’s documentation previously submitted to the other jurisdiction or entity; and
3. the extent to which, if any, the disability and functional limitations have changed since the last qualifying exam occurred.