Sunday, April 3, 2011

I am sorry that I am not a good "Test Taker" :(

It was my senior of High School and it was getting close to graduation and I was still not accepted into any Universities. I was currently a holding a 4.2 grade point average, over 150 hours of service learning and was involved with a lot sports and clubs. Now those sounds like a great candidate for many schools, but there was just one problem. I was not a good test taker. No matter I much time I put in studying for a test, I just never did well. This being the case standardized test scores should not be used as a measure to determine how much funding schools receive. This will be a stupid idea, because there are millions of people in the world who just are not good test taker. But does this mean that they are ignorant? No. For example, myself was later accepted to Florida Gulf Coast University, but I didn’t score the highest on the “ACT” but I had finish my first semester of college with an “A” average. This goes to show you that just because he do not score well on standardize exams it does not mean that illiterate. If school was to get measured on how they did as a whole on standardize test to determine their funding many school would be broke. Whoever has the call on this decision should make school funding decision based on population and how many students that will be attending need financial needs. Not by a stupid paper and number two pencil.

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