My SO is a teacher and is proctoring the SAT tomorrow. Our state mandates that all students take it free of charge in their junior year as a general aptitude te

My SO is a teacher and is proctoring the SAT tomorrow. Our state mandates that all students take it free of charge in their junior year as a general aptitude test used for funding decisions and lots of other stuff. So there are a lot of students taking it together on a single day during class time. The school also provides the PSAT and requires all juniors to take it (paid by the school district only). Students are assigned to rooms based on their last name, alphabetical order and all that. When they gave the PSAT in the fall, it was ... eye opening. I never considered the possibility of a fight breaking out during the test, let alone the 3 that broke out in my SO's proctoring session. How do you control for desks being thrown about during the math section? (Yes really). The reason was that the boys were bored after just writing their names and doing nothing for 4 hours (no phones or books are allowed) and then they started fighting as boys do. The loudness of the room in general is also a factor to control for, as the students that are sitting-for but not taking the test tend to chit-chat and try to hit on each other, as bored teenagers are want to do. Richer areas don't just have studying to help them out, they also have a ... cultural... sense that one should not draw blood or try for a date during these tests.