A spokesman from the Educational Testing Service said it expects to administer SAT tests to 30,000 learning disabled candidates in 1996, an increase from 18,000 in 1991. Many of them, New York magazine reports, come from elite private schools with students whose grades are far higher than the average American might associate with the term "disability," and whose parents are willing to pay the $1,000 for the certificate. Learning disabled students are granted an extra 90 minutes on the test, which ordinarily has a three-hour time limit.

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