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Here's what Lisa Dice, 17, had with her when she took the new SAT exam: four mechanical No. 2 pencils, a calculator, a sweatshirt, a bottle of water, a bottle of apple juice and a packet of cheese-flavored crackers. Here's what she wishes she'd had: "a sandwich--something with a bit more substance...
Clocking in at 3 hr. 45 min.-- three-quarters of an hour longer than the old test--the new exam, which debuted on March 12, is not just a measure of verbal and mathematical proficiency; it's a test of endurance. Kids are given two 5-min. breaks, which they may use for refueling. Ned Johnson, an SAT tutor who sat for the new exam himself, says he saw kids running out into the hallways and "stuffing their faces...
Lara vowed to stick to her fast even though she will likely sit through two midterms during her strike—an organic chemistry test today and a French exam tomorrow...
...more of these students chose to come forward after the exam, saying that their tutor “used exam problems from previous years as examples” during the tutoring sessions, Park wrote in his e-mail...
...proposed allowing students to drop the midterm if they score better on the final exam as a remedy that would be “equitable...