Blog Post Two

College is a big step for high school seniors, and it is most likely on a lot of the juniors and seniors minds throughout the academic school year. It is a stressful time full of test-taking, and maintaining grades, and being involved in school, all at the same time. But one of the main concerns of a lot of students these days is the standardized testing that colleges require to gain entry into a particular school. The ACT and SATs are taken in the spring of junior year. I personally dreaded that day of testing, where I knew I would struggle because I am so bad at test taking. This is on the minds of a lot of other students too, I’m sure. High school seniors often have to limit where they apply to college because of their ACT scores. I think that restricts too many of us, and it is not giving us a free decision on where we would like to pay to attend school. The NACAC, known as the National Association for College Admission Counseling stated that “high school students too much of their energies on testing strategies rather than the rest of their academic profiles”. I think there needs to be some sort of balance between test scores, and how well rounded a student was in high school. Because for all of us students out there who are bad test takers like me, we struggle, and then are restricted to the colleges where we apply to. I would personally love to see the standardized testing banned forever, but I think no matter what we do or say, some form of it will always be there. I think every student should have the right to go to any college they want to in order to get a good education, and with these tests, it limits us. In order for us to move forward and make this situation better, I think students should focus more on being involved in an array of activities in high school, and less on test taking skills, and hopefully as the years go on there will be more colleges not taking test scores into consideration.

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