Um, no. First, sometimes private school education is often worse than public school education (that’s particularly true of the parochial schools). They aren’t made to discriminate.

The tests are supposed to measure your skills or knowledge in certain areas. I don’t think it is good to judge a college applicants based off of their SAT or ACT scores alone, but the tests can give good guidelines. Obviously, if a student only makes a 500 on one section on the test, and the school normally accepts most students that are in the low six hundreds or above in that section, the student who got the 500 probably wouldn’t be prepared to do the work at that college. Also, test are the only way to compare students fairly. How can you compare two students’ grades when you can’t take into account factors like one kid had a harder teacher, if you have no way of knowing that information? You cannot, so you need the tests to level the playing field.

And the same goes with work tests. For instance, would you want to send your taxes to be worked on by an accountant who didn’t pass the CPA exam? No, because you wouldn’t be able to trust that the person working on your taxes actually knows what he/she is doing if he/she didn’t pass the CPA exam. And I’ll agree, the tests are expensive, but we need them.

You’re proper, a lot of these matters are actual. They additionally shop directors the time of honestly getting to understand pupils and having ‘function’ measurements of pupils. my prime university (J. Graham Brown) and College (Oberlin) used to supply out a million-two web page handwritten critiques from a few lecturers alternatively of doing standardized checks and grades. finally the schools and graduate systems pupils had been making use of to mentioned “ample, we simply wish numbers to crunch, we crunch pages of subjective phrases.” although those phrases had been an precise reasonable sincere longer term assessment of the pupil a lot more indicative of any standardized scan.

How about to have one measure comparing students? Not the only measure, not necessarily the best measure, but A measure.

And it’s an objective measure. It’s more objective than deciding whether an A in Biology at Washington HS is equivalent to an A in Biology at Adams HS.

whatever!

i get high scores on all the standardized exams I take (in the 99th percentile for many) and I stopped going to Catholic school in 3rd grade (only private school I’ve been to.)

stop hatin’