C24: A Short Story

Preparations for tests should ideally begin much earlier than shortly before the actual test taking period. Indeed, many students perform dismally in their tests because of their failure to understand this and many other principles of test and exam preparation. In addition to discussing how students should prepare for tests, this text will also identify the various strategies which should be embraced by students during test taking in an attempt to enhance performance.

Students dread the time of the year when they stop with their course material and begin to prepare for test. Everyone is in agreement that some type of revolution is needed when it comes to education; eliminating standardized test will aid the reform. The need for standardized testing has proven to be ineffective and outdated; some leading educationalist also believe this because the tests do not measure a student’s true potential. This will save money, stop labeling, and alleviate stress in students and teachers.

Standardized tests inhibit the ability for students to perform well on stress inducing tests; thus, students question their abilities to succeed, and they lack engagement in their educational learning. Standardized tests produce the feeling of anxiety as heart beats accelerate, bodies’ tremble, faces flush, sweat pores open, hands grip tighter, and muscles tense. As the test dates come closer, students are

She was dismayed to see, upon returning one day from lunch, that the books for her week’s lessons had been set aside. In the center of her desk was a stack of test-prep booklets with a teacher’s guide, and a note saying, ‘Use these instead of your regular curriculum until after the TAAS (a standardized test)’. The TAAS test date was three months away (Meier 4).

"Emelie! Hurry!" Shelby shouted. Emelie pulled her backpack over her shoulder and ran towards her best friends.

The education of students has transitioned from learning crucial lessons to preparing for yearly tests. Meanwhile, differences in students’ comfort of taking such tests and learning styles have affected the scores of students of equal academic merit. The tests also have not helped younger students to accelerate the education process that, theoretically, should result from increased

Howard explains the event in which a new test has been given out to students. The

Strolling into Sinclair Community College, keeping my fear off my face, I convinced myself I was ready to take this test. After all,

What once began as a simple test administered to students yearly to measure understanding of a particular subject has, as Kohn (2000) has stated, “Mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole” (p.1). Today’s students are tested to an extent that is unparalleled in not only the history of our schools, but to the rest of the world as well. Step into any public school classroom across the United States and it will seem as if standardized testing has taken over the curriculum. Day after day teachers stress the importance of being prepared for the upcoming test. Schools spend millions of dollars purchasing the best test preparation materials, sometimes comes at the cost of other important material. Although test

Event 1: Malencia (Cia) Vale from the Five Lakes Colony of the United Commonwealth is about to graduate from high school. She enters graduation hoping to be chosen for The Testing, a series of tests in Tosu City where high school graduates go to in order to get into the University and later get a job. At the end of graduation, no government official for The Testing shows up. The next morning, a messenger informs her to meet the magistrates as soon as possible. When Cia arrives, she meets three other fellow

These kind of emotions can be very tolling for a student, especially young children. Everyone usually has one memory of taking a test that sticks with them for a number of different reasons. My first memory of being tested was in 1st grade. We were taking a test on matching the pictures to the sentences. I remember this test so well because, I was having a hard time on a question and decided to ask one of my peers for help.

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau is about a dystopian society where the top of the class of the high school usually gets chosen to take part in the Testing, to see if they are ready for continuing their education at the University. When 16-year-old Malencia Vale, the main character, is chosen to participate she discovers the repulsing truth of her childhood dream. The people chosen for the Testing are disappearing, Malencia realizes they are violently being narrowed down. I thought The Testing is an addictive story about a world after a destroyed earth. Joelle Charbonneau wrote The Testing towards people who like destroyed, earth survivor stories or stories about a society that are “survival of the

It's that time of year again, the last few weeks college. You have been on time to every class session and have managed to add a few points to your normal course average. Just a few more weeks to go and you will be on your way to a well needed vacation, which you have carefully spent the last couple months planning. There is only one thing that stands in the way, final exams. Just as every student before you and every student that will come after you, final examinations can be very frustrating and stressful. Proper testing preparation combined with skilled testing strategies can help anyone overcome those examination nightmares.

"Hurry up, you two, I am not running because you're late again!" yelled Ally to Rachel and me.

The day of the first test I woke up feeling terrible, I found myself feeling sick with worry and a cold on top of that. Pushing myself past the worry I set out ready to attempt the first test. It was a cold February morning with snow on the ground and the few mile drive seemed to take forever. Pulling into the parking lot the old fears of not being ready crept over me. Pushing the