starfire1036

Do some of you out there find that the state testing is a little over rated? I have to take it and they are telling us that it doesnt eve count towards our final grade... I can see yes to test us and grade us for it but not just make us taake it and not get anything for it... plum crazy I say. I just finished the 2nd out of 3 parts of my science final and i haven't even learned half of the shit on there... I was like O.O".

PhoenixSara

__________________

1 day, you look a person & see more than you did the day b4 like a switch was flickered somewhere & the friend is suddenly the only person you can imagine yourself with.

Clan Rainstorm 2nd Company, Kunoichi Leader

yinyangAio1

Most test like the OGT and SAT don't count towards your grades, thats true! But it does help employers know what you know and sometimes you can't inter college without them! I've had to take the OGT (Ohio Graduation Test) and it was hard, but it's required for me to take it. Just bare with it for a while!

__________________
"Live for today, look forward to tomorrow!"

Descended From Darkness

I have always had problems with State required testing ever since I moved to Texas. There is such a huge emphasis on passing these tests from when you are an elementry school student till you are a junior in HS or in Plano a senior at a Senior High School. Taking tests doesn't determine or shouldn't determine whether you graduate or not or whether you go to college or get a job or whatever. Standarized tests puts more emphasis on memorization and causes a lot of stress for students. There are kids who are horrible at tests and the info can go in one ear and out the other. The problem I have with it is that it doesn't neccesarily benefit the kids, unless you count huge amounts of stress and giant migranes benefits. All it does is it gives the school distract and the schools (if the number of kids end up passing it and getting commerated) bragging rights and money. The teachers get paid more if we do well and what do we get, stress and migranes. Now isn't that lovely?

__________________

Thanx zyta for the awesome set
[
Rai's Gallery: Rai's myspace : Rai's Deviantart: Angelic Ruin:SpiritDetective

starfire1036

In my situation, we are given these tests in 8th and 11th grade. I find myself confused at stuff that I haven't even learned about. It is a struggle because the same test is given state wide and our school is poor in education. I found myself writing in the essay sections "I'm sorry but I haven't learned any of this yet."

Legend

Yup, it's a big issue. Most of these test determines the amount of money the school by the performance of the students. Your school is probably caught in the bad cycle of bad scores to no funding to bad teachers. Essay in most cases shouldn't be too hard, as that section is mostly generalized that you do not need actual knowledge to write. If you have an amount of critical thinking skills you should be able to get it done.

I still believe students need to pass this test in order to graduate, because seriously it's the simplest of base of education for high schoolers. On top you get 4 years to get the job done.

__________________

divine_punishment

I think state testing is wrong. Teachers become so limited. You have to teach to the test and the students miss out on so much! Also, it does not account for students with test anxiety. There has to be a better way to see how the children are doing.

__________________

Kool2bchilln

I was handed my Algebra 2 final review, and the first question made me say "wtf." It's horrible how little we learn, but are then expected to know. From the teacher no less...

__________________
Inderagamono

Astaroth

I actually see nothing wrong with testing
When I took the SAT two years ago...I was prepared and I knew that it was going to be much harder than the tests I have been taking regularly at my high school...and even though they do not count towards your grades...they do count for your future because no matter what school or college you go to here....they will ask for you state testing scores and depending on what you get....you will know what college you get into....so they are very important and no matter how hard they may seem.....wait till you get to college...then you will know the definition of being "brain fried"....^_^

__________________

Legend

Not to mentioned that it actually helped me financially in college too. I am not sure about the other states, but back when I was in High School students who did great were awarded $1000 for paying for higher edcuation. For every subject that you excelled in you would get $1000 and that's not all. Every year the government would add more money into it like interests, up until your 30th birthday you can use it to pay for school.

__________________

gamemaster331

They had just started such testing when I was in 10th grade. Of course, around a Military Base, they had a little more testing because the Military was paying for part of the schooling. If they're goig to do the tests, then I think they should be teaching everyone the same things in the same grades. I blew off my Senior year and got As, Bs, and Cs. Mostly because the stuff they were teaching was stuff I had already had before in lower grades at other schools. Each school system does not teach the same things, therefore testing by States doesn't make a lot of sense unless all of the schools in the State are teaching the same things at the same time.