3. Teens love competitions.
The race to who gets to the best college (or grab the best career) has begun since kindergarten. And, it is all the more powerful in the teen years. Because really, teens thrive on competition and they enjoy feeling inadequate when they their SATs do not measure up or they do not get their dream athletic scholarship. Teens get training about the cold hard outside world from school and the competition is really better than collaborative learning. In the same way, that backbiting to get a better position at the office is better than teamwork and helping each other out.
Competition does not just exist in terms of sports and academics. Competing for spring fling queen, being the hottest, getting the most girls and all that are forms of competition too. And teens love them because there is nothing like the blows on self-esteem these kinds of things produce.

2. Teens Love Long Exams
Most of the time 20% of their grade depends on long exams and that is why teens love ‘em. Long exams are meant to gauge just home much teens have learned after several weeks. And really, their teen brains can fit in all the weeks of learning different subjects and retrieve the lessons at will. Long exams have been proven as ineffective by Harvard University but who cares? Teens love them anyway. It is a giant brain challenge and sometime a test of how well they can get away with cheating too. Also, downing a bunch of energy drinks and cramming studying on one night I just the right way they would rather spend their evenings.