Argumentative Essay On Sats

The SAT is just one of the many standardized tests. About 30 stats use the SAT, but does it accurately test what you know? Tests have value but standardized test don't do anything to prove that you know what you know. One thing that makes the SAT lose value is the fact that it's timed. A timed test doesn't show what you know, it shows how fast you can take a test. Howard Gardner a Harvard professor said “I don't care how much time they spend on their assignments. For those few jobs where speed is important t, timed test may be useful. But getting into college, or doing satisfactory once there is not in that category.” The whole point of Gardner's essay is that of you have a disability and get more time then everyone should have more time.

Joy Alonso said “We all have tons of pressure on us, and inevitably we neglect some things-” Alonso's speech overall is pretty positive to tests but what I think she is trying to say at this point is that tests can cause pressure in which we forgot to study or do something else. There is a lot of pressure to get good grades so that you can go to a good college, if someone has so much pressure they could get sick, or freak out when the test comes and doesn't do as well as they could. They can also be pressure and stress when you have still have half the questions to complete on the SAT but you only have 10 minutes to finish.

SATs and ACTs can be good because after a student finishes one there could be a sense of accomplishment. Joy Alonso also said “I won't go as far as to say that students like examinations, but I will claim that, any students experience a sense of exhilaration when the ordeal is over, when, so to speak, the initiation rite is completed and they justifiably feel that they have achieved something.” Students could feel great and feels just good after you finish a test. They could feel relief when it is done. If you get a bad score, hopefully you will know what to study for next time you take a