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...much for caution. In test-happy America, the SAT has since become a kind of academic icon and a national rite of passage for college-bound high school students. Every year more than 1.3 million of them take the 2-hr., 30-min. multiple-choice exam, which is intended to measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast...
Although an election victory for B.U. president John Silber threatened to leave the university's highest post vacant, few students there noticeably gathered to watch incoming results. Many said exam pressures and apathy outweighed their political enthusiasm...
Harvard students have been known to get the exam blues--particularly at midterm time. But this year, they won't be getting exam booklets to match their mood...
...really don't care," said Pete Capozzella '93. "Exam books are exam books. After you open the cover, they look the same inside...
...room. "That's my cue to leave," he explained. And as with any audience, some patients just refuse to see the humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn red?' No answer. 'Are you ticklish?' And then, with his head still down, the boy asked, 'Are you retarded?' I said no. 'Then why don't you act like...