Making a standardized testing molehill into a mountain

During my school days, I used to enjoy taking standardized tests the way some people like doing crossword puzzles. To me, they were more rewarding than most of what went on at school. As an avid reader and an indifferent student, tests like the SAT were made for somebody like me — a bookworm who read fast enough to finish the exam early and who knew lots of vocabulary words he’d never heard spoken…