What do you think about standardized testing?

[blackcrystal22]

standardized tests are extremely important, and generally extremely easy to score high marks on. someone who "does not test well" has a problem, somewhere, some way, some how.

i do feel that standardized tests should be higher in standards, making the subjects work harder to pass the test. there are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many stupid and/or ignorant people in the world today, which is 90% of the reason we as a race (humans) are stagnating.

Hmm.. Ignorance.
My boyfriend received a 35 out of 36 on the ACT, putting him at the highest standards. I received a 24, and many of our friends received between a 22-30. Heres the thing, many of my friends took pre-ACT study classes to get a better score. Me and my boyfriend did not. He didn't want to, and I could not afford to.

I do relatively good in school. Averaging mostly A's and B's in normal classes with a few scattered Cs. He gets straight A's in all of his honors classes and AP classes.
The thing that severely bothers me is that he will never study for a test. Not once. He doesn't even study for finals and he gets A's every time. I study for weeks before a final and usually barely come out with C's.
Want to know why? I am a bad test-taker, because of the way I use my brain. There is not something wrong with me, I just retain information with pictures and he retains with words. I can not memorize sentences or dates or numbers like he can, but at the same time, he struggles with Art, Creativity, and doing Projects, which I generally excel at.

Some people have different way's of retaining information. Sadly, most schools only use words and numbers to teach which makes me struggle quite a bit. I don't think they will have anything to do with your life in the long-run but they will slow things down for you now. Don't think college just bases their acceptance on tests. One of the seniors who went to my school and got a 36 with a high GPA was declined from MIT and Cal Tech, there reasoning was they wanted someone more creative and open-minded. Go figures.

Edit: I don't know if you noticed, but that also means that your calling me stupid, the OP stupid, and anyone else on this forum who doesn't test well stupid. How nice of you.