Shower a Spell 

Thursday, March 10, 2005; Page H03

by Annie Groer

The Washington Post

On Saturday, millions of angst-ridden high schoolers will drag No. 2 pencils across the much-debated new SAT. Some couldn't even take pre-exam refuge in the shower, given the advent of a shower curtain bearing 100 SAT-worthy vocabulary words, definitions and parts of speech.

The $20 study aid was conceived by Alexandra Yang, 14, a suburban Minneapolis ninth-grader, and New Yorker Kevin Tung, 25, a family friend and Columbia University grad who quit investment banking for a "more entrepreneurial" life.

"It's very readable in the shower even without glasses. Or you can flip it the other way and read it while you are standing at the sink brushing your teeth," says Tung. The list runs from "abbreviate" to "wary," there being no exam-likely X, Y or Z words, he says. The curtain debuted in January and is sold through www.amazon.com.