- Dec 12, 2000
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I'm a high school student, and today, we took a "pretest" to the standardized test we take next week.
Now I normally would not complain about such tests, since they are usually over in two or three days, with about two hours per day...
But this takes up three and a half hours per day, for five days.
Lovely.
I've taken a standardized test every year since fourth grade, and every year they tell us that we must pass to go to the next grade, and after we take it, we find out that they wanted us to pass just so the school didn't look like it wasn't teaching.
So basically they lied to us.
And that pisses me off.
Anyway, I'm kind of annoyed right now, because I took the "pretest" during first period, and then they gave us the exact same booklet during seventh.
I don't really think that the tests are useful; if you would like to know how a student compares to the rest of the nation, you can always use statistics (statistics meaning that field of math, not some random numbers people feed you).
Ah well.
If all goes well, the entire school will be empty next week. They don't listen to our letters (we wrote hundreds of them), so we won't take it.
Now I normally would not complain about such tests, since they are usually over in two or three days, with about two hours per day...
But this takes up three and a half hours per day, for five days.
Lovely.
I've taken a standardized test every year since fourth grade, and every year they tell us that we must pass to go to the next grade, and after we take it, we find out that they wanted us to pass just so the school didn't look like it wasn't teaching.
So basically they lied to us.
And that pisses me off.
Anyway, I'm kind of annoyed right now, because I took the "pretest" during first period, and then they gave us the exact same booklet during seventh.
I don't really think that the tests are useful; if you would like to know how a student compares to the rest of the nation, you can always use statistics (statistics meaning that field of math, not some random numbers people feed you).
Ah well.
If all goes well, the entire school will be empty next week. They don't listen to our letters (we wrote hundreds of them), so we won't take it.