An average senior in high schools wants to go out with her friends, but then remembers she needs to save her money. Students must save money for standardized test, you don’t only pay for the test, you also pay for the optional essay which is becoming required by many schools. Standardized test can leave a hole in a student’s pocket. College admission depend too much on standardized test to see what students are eligible to be attend their school. Standardized test do not ensure the success of a student or show their true potential.
Standardized test did indeed exist, but they weren’t like the test we had today. Horace Mann an educational pioneer, in 1895 proposed to Boston Public School to replace oral exams with written exams to prove the children’s knowledge learned in school. The College Entrance Examination Board in 1920 renamed to Scholastic Aptitude Test/ SAT. In the 1960s the federal government enforced new achievement test created to
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“15 percent of American Colleges were using the SAT as an admission tool” (“The College Board”). In the 1950s-1960s an unbelievable growth occurred as the SAT became the standard. The Scholastic Assessment Test and Scholastic Aptitude Test, former names of the SAT; however, despite the different names they all were a tool for college admission offices. ACT Inc., created a trademarked college admission test, known as the ACT. The ACT, better known by American College Testing measures English, math, reading, and science skills of a student. The Texas Success Initiative Assessment, or TSI is another standardized college admission test. The test helps with figuring out the college level of course work most fits an incoming college student. The TSI consist of three different sections: Math, Reading, and Writing. A student may have several ways of becoming exempt from the test; however, majority of incoming college students in Texas take must take the