A Test of Endurance

Students say the new SAT is a marathon with unnecessary hurdles, but not everyone is complaining

High-school students who tackled the new SAT this month agreed on at least one answer: The three-hour-and-45-minute test was exhausting.

Abby Koch, a junior from Doylestown, Pa., said she had a headache and sore eyes after nearly four hours of reading and filling in bubbles, tasks she described as "long but not unbearable." During the test she discreetly popped handfuls of

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