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I...totally disagree.
Standardized tests is the only way to fairly gauge what level students are on. I'm not that far out of highschool, and I can remember the tests I took fairly well.
The questions weren't exactly difficult. They were all either common knowledge (or should have been) or were logic questions.
The english section had basic word meanings, some you had to mark a syn or ant. other's you had to figure out what it meant from context clues...doesn't require rocket science.
The math section. Addition, subtraction, mult., and division. You're in highschool when you take this test folks...I finished two levels of calc by my senior year, surely it isn't expecting too much of the kids to test them on their adding abilities.
Reading section. I remember reading the same damn stories on every single standardized test. One about the the chinese chess playing girl, and the other about the boy in Texas waiting on his brother.
The writing part. My english teacher spent a week on how to write an essay (not how to write the specific essay they asked you to write). I'm glad she did, b/c otherwise I would have been screwed in college english and history. It's amazing how many college students don't know how to write an essay.
The tests are hardly biased. After six, eight, ten years of school everything on them should be general knowledge. If it's not, it's no that the test is bias, it's the students fault.
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