“He won’t graduate” they say (Harris). The shaky hands, red faces, and biting of the pencils have become more frequent now for students as the curriculum gets more difficult and the pressure only increases for students to succeed. We have all been a victim of standardized tests not only students, but teachers. Sitting in a room for more than an hour while filling in a bubble of an educated guess is nothing compared to the interaction in the classroom (Miner). The use of standardized testing is not improving education in America, but rather degrading it through the unsatisfactory use of rank, poor evaluation, and the lack of real world situations. Standardized tests are undercutting a student’s success and not letting them express their full potential towards their academic qualities. Children are being failed and denied access to specialized academic placements because of a single test score (Miner). The difficulty students face during the timed test is not an accurate representation of the potential an individual truly holds. In a classroom standardized tests differ from classroom aspects in a …show more content…
On a personal note, I have been a victim of a bad test score to restrict me from an enriched coarse. Out of a one hour exam with too many multiple choice answers to count, a piece of paper determined my placement. Many students have been victims of the standardized tests. For example, standardized tests have been seen to carry even more weight and they have been determined to make many decisions for a student’s success (Harris). Moreover, there has been many statistical accidents in the grading process of these tests. Every test has some instrumental error that is not a true representation of a student's worth. As a whole of being victims, an act together to end the poor judgement and inconsistent mistakes of these standardized tests can be