By Brayan Rodriguez Paz
I don”t get the fact that our state of texas makes schools give us tests to graduate or move on to a certain level. In my opinion that shouldn’t prove if we learned certain topics in our classes from high school.
To give an example of what i”m talking about is the STAAR tests they make us do every year starting from when you’re 8 years old in a 3rd grade level in school. Ever since we as students started doing the STAAR test in 3rd grade in around april, our lives haven’t been as “with more freedom” i could say.
If we’re being honest here. I think we would rather go to all our classes in school every day from Monday through Friday and just do our daily assignments like we’re supposed to. Negative energy goes through my head everytime i think of the word “Test”. You get the feeling of you failing it already when you haven’t even seen what the test is about.
There’s always a trick question in every test you take, testing your knowledge at the same time obviously but sometimes there’s trick questions related to stuff you haven’t even learned about before.
At the end of the day, test are just here for us to really challenge what we have been learning in school, “in all our classes” to be more specific and prove to the administrators or to the people that work for the state, how much we can gather throughout the years we as students have been in school till we graduate high school.
College seems a lot deadlier than it sounds like and we just have to wait and experience it on our own if we manage to reach it.
In my story, “My personal thoughts on school tests”, I went and let out as much as I could about what my thoughts on tests were all about. I chose to write about it because tests have been a part of my life ever since I started school and we all have relatable thoughts which reach the point when we start questioning ourselves why tests are here in the first place.
I began my writing by questioning myself on why our state of Texas gave the school districts the right to give students tests in order for us as students to level up to another grade level.
“To give an example of what I’m talking about is the STAAR test”, I used that example in my story to let everyone know what specific test it was that i was referring to. Out of all the tests in school, The “STAAR” seemed to me to be the major thing out of everything we do in school”
The following piece of thought I give in my writing is describing what I feel we as students would benefit from doing instead of a whole test approved by the test. I Also describe the state of mind most of us have in our heads when we’re all taking a test which I described to be a “negative overthinking” state of mind.
When writing this, I put myself in the position as if I was in everyone else's point of view. It was challenging i’d say that, that was the main reason i struggled getting ideas out because i kept thinking “what would i say that everyone else is going through the same way as i experienced it or acknowledged it.
I end my writing with coming to the conclusion that tests are just here to help reflect on what we have been learning throughout the years in school. It’s meant to challenge our knowledge and a way of proving to the administrators that we are comprehending the topics we learn in each and every one of our classes..
There’s not really a specific tone I can think of for this writing, but in my opinion I'd say it’s a “neutral, positive” type tone to this writing because it is mostly informative and it’s just me expressing my thoughts on what tests are to me and everyone else as students.
Wow... this is such a relatable topic, I agree with everything you said and it's well explained. "there's trick questions related to stuff you haven't even learned about before." This is what got me, it happens all the time especially with the PSAT... This Essay made me think of me when i'm taking a test.
--Karen Lepez