Total freakout

THIS BLOG IS BEING ADDED AFTER THE ACTUAL DAY IT IS BASED ON.


Today the underclassmen, that is students that are in lower grades than me, are "testing". I seriously HATE standardized testing. If it is the type where you have a test book and are given an unlimited amount of time, I'm usually okay, but once you add the variables of a computer or a limited amount of time onto the test I start freaking out. I start feeling like if I don't do this right I'm going to fail and never amount to anything. With the computer tests I traditionally score rather above average, about twenty to thirty points with the last one I took actually, but with the timed tests I tend to do pathetically on them, I get so bogged down while freaking out that I can't think about anything but that. It's not like we need these tests anyway, for me instead of measuring what we know, it just measures our ability to memorize everything we learn in our classes. Any standardized testing makes me think that the system of education we have doesn't measure our intelligence, in any form that it may be, but it measures how well we memorize. It doesn't tell you if a student is having problems in a class, or if a teacher isn't the best, it just measures whether or not we can memorize, and truthfully, when are we going to use the majority of this knowledge after we're done with school anyway?

So cyberspace, what do you think about the standardized testing system, is it valid or does it just show us that some students memorize or are getting a better education than those who score lower?