CNN.com - Student fatigue to blame for�drop in SAT scores? - May 12, 2006

Ever notice how there is an expert for everything? Our excuse-making lazy entitilement attitude is really getting out of control. Why do we insist that anything that is stressful is bad? Tell you what, life is stressfull, college exams are stressfull, work is stressfull - get used to it. Grow up. People need to understand making it easy for kids, does them no favors. It just makes them think life should be easy and that they are entitiled. I'm really getting sick of this stuff. For America to succeed we need generations of kids who realize they will need to work to better themselves, work to get ahead. This is yet another sign of our lazy society, and will lead to our own downfall. Each year, brings new heights of lazy behavior.
CNN.com - Student fatigue to blame for drop in SAT scores? - May 12, 2006:

At three hours, 45 minutes, the newly expanded SAT exam can be a grueling marathon of essays and multiple-choice bubbles, many high schoolers say. Now, with preliminary figures showing a small but noticeable drop in scores this year, some experts wonder if student fatigue is to blame.
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Typically, students' scores rise a combined 30 points on the math and critical reading sections on a second try. While more students are taking the SAT, fewer are taking it multiple times, said College Board spokeswoman Chiara Coletti.
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Bob Sweeney, a guidance counselor at Mamaroneck High School in New York, said his students reported being exhausted by the test. 'I hope this will give (the College Board) some pause to say 'Maybe this needs to be fixed,'' he said."