Standardized Testing Persuasive Essay
Have you ever sat down and thought about college and how one test can determine what college you can/will get accepted to. Everyone knows that colleges place so much stock into these standardized test scores. Knowing this makes students worried and develop anxiety about test taking. Colleges use these standardized tests to predict how well we do in college to succeed.Colleges shouldn’t be allowed to put that much pressure on us for our test scores on SAT’s or Act’s. “We all have different abilities, thought processes, experiences and genes so why is a class full of individuals tested by the same means?” Its not fair to test us all on the same test when we all are different and some of us are better test takers than others.These test
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Some students have had college students that did well and got into their school of dreams go take their quiz for them. “People briefed on the investigation said that Samuel Eshaghoff, a 2010 Great Neck North graduate, scored in the 2,100 range (out of 2,400) on his own SATs; he is accused of taking tests for at least 15 people over three years, and the people briefed on the inquiry said he obtained scores for them between 2,170 and 2,220 on the SAT and as high as 33 out of 36 on the ACT. He was proficient at making fake identification cards, they said, and allowed clients to pay in installments and based on what they could afford.” Students that know they have no chance to get into good colleges actually paid people so that way they can get into good colleges. Some students also take ADD / ADHD medicine before they take the test to increase their ability to focus and have alertness. “According to a study done by the partnership for a drug free America found that 1 in 10 kids of the middle and high school age were taking Adderall and Ritalin without a
Some students have had college students that did well and got into their school of dreams go take their quiz for them. “People briefed on the investigation said that Samuel Eshaghoff, a 2010 Great Neck North graduate, scored in the 2,100 range (out of 2,400) on his own SATs; he is accused of taking tests for at least 15 people over three years, and the people briefed on the inquiry said he obtained scores for them between 2,170 and 2,220 on the SAT and as high as 33 out of 36 on the ACT. He was proficient at making fake identification cards, they said, and allowed clients to pay in installments and based on what they could afford.” Students that know they have no chance to get into good colleges actually paid people so that way they can get into good colleges. Some students also take ADD / ADHD medicine before they take the test to increase their ability to focus and have alertness. “According to a study done by the partnership for a drug free America found that 1 in 10 kids of the middle and high school age were taking Adderall and Ritalin without a