HW42-Significance

A school system based solely on testing is going to fail as most test are forms of memorization.


While high school is based over a 4 years period of learning, the SAT being one of the most important test in a students life, only is placed in a span of 4 hours. With students parents pressuring them to do well on this test, it causes many students to think it is make or break. They are pressured by society to perform well on this test or will be considered an idiot or worse, an under achiever. They think this test will be the answer to the outcome of their lives, do well and you will have a great life seems to be the motto flying around.
To me personally, testing seems a way of ranking students and while some kids have equal ambition to do well, they are simply not test takers and become anxious or blank out when taking tests. I only place so much value on testing because I do not think there is really an alternative that would be equally beneficial and how much a student knows.
This topic matters functionally because society is the majority of the pressure that is placed on doing well. Although it in turn can cause kids to perform well, the constant pressure that we face causes us to think if we make one mistake we will not be able to do quite as well in life. The whole learning from your mistakes has been out the window for a while now.