SAT Argumentative Essay

It’s 6 in the morning on a Saturday.You had a really long week, thanks to a presentation in Humanities and a research paper in Spanish. But you have no time to recover because you’re taking the SAT in a couple hours.The SAT is a test that can change a student’s future, for better or for worse. The bad thoughts keep coming: what if I have a bad day? What if I have to go to the bathroom? Something isn’t right about this - is it fair to have one test determine your future?

College admissions officers will tell you that SAT scores are only one part of the information they use to make admissions decisions, but what they don’t tell you is as college applications reach record highs, they’re forced to rely on them more and more. Who has time to

Not only are they being used to assess students, but are tied to to firing staff, giving bonuses and closing schools. The assessments have become the goal of education rather than an indicator” (Diane Ravitch 1). The education system is making really important decisions by the results of those tests. But instead the standardized test are harming the students education and also the teacher's job. Not only are they poor measurements of what students know, but these high-stakes tests do damage student's

Now days the students think about more in a exam then the classes that they are receiving.“Students spent from 60 to more than 110 hours per year directly engaged in test preparation activities” (Jesse Hagopian). The time that the system is investing in the preparation of the standardized test is incredible. The time could be used for actually teaching more to the students and then see the progress of the students in what they need to learn, not memorizing something that they are only going to use the day of the test. Another effect is how the students feel about standardized testing Alicia Anthony said that, “Students, feel an inordinate amount of pressure to be successful on state standardized tests. Students who struggle feel frustration as they are faced with a test beyond their current skill set” (Alicia Anthony 1). Students carry a tremendous amount of pressure and frustration, this might affect the way that the students learn in the school also it can create a bad environment for learning in a classroom. If the world is always changing why the system hasn't changed in that aspect? A lot of people had talk about this problem, many of them claims differents things. They have had many differents roles in education. Of the seventeen articles and one interview used in my research, 13 of them claimed that standardized testing is affecting students. For example Don batt who is a journalist that critics the way that the system