What is the final test the kids are faced with at graduation?

The final test at graduation is centered around the applause received by the audience during the ceremony.

Other families are more boisterous: leaping from their seats, arms waving, two-fingered whistles, moose calls, stomping the floor. It's hard not to make comparisons, hard not to notice who gets the loudest cheer, the longest, the most outrageous, the most camera flashes. It's like a last minute, before-you-get-outta-here, final test.