As early as the third grade students are burden with extreme pressure to pass standardized tests. Students know that if they do not pass this test, they are not going to move on to the next grade. The students feel that they are not capable of passing this test, they start to feel unintelligent. This is probably due to schools making them think that without passing the test they won't move to the next day. That the score on that test defines how smart you are. Who it say what the standard knowledge a child at a particular grade should have. These assumptions that all students in different areas are the same and that their circumstances surrounding them have no effect in the knowledge that someone had determined that they are supposed to have.
A problem with standardized testing is that they do not take into consideration of the syllabus that students learn all year round in their classroom curriculum. What students are
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High school uses diplomas as both a way of bribing and of intimidating students to do well on standardized tests so they can graduate. Not only is this unfair, but it is damaging. When students are told that they will receive something in exchange for performing satisfactorily, the real reason that they should want to do well, which is self-improvement, is sacrificed. Bribes and intimidation turn learning into a task, rather than a interesting journey, which results in students not wanting to go to school. Students do not enjoy learning because they are not being encouraged to learn. They are being taught that the only purpose that they should seek knowledge, is to obtain a reward or avoid a punishment. Students may remember facts long enough for the next test. Although, in the long run, it is more important that students are motivated to learn new things, rather than encouraging purely for a recompense or by a