Multi-Section Test

I am more than halfway through my high school years. What started out as a slow-paced marathon slowly became a 100m dash, and I am approaching the final third. Thus far, I couldn’t have asked for much more: my grades have been quite good, I’ve played soccer and baseball, ran track, joined several different clubs, helped out with Admissions, and many more. But, out-of-the-blue, I hear that these aren’t the only things that make a so-called “good student” in the eyes of colleges across the nation. Along with these activities, despite all of the stress and pressure that has been put on us just to maintain high grades and take challenging courses to fill up a resúme that could define our success later in life, colleges have the courage to say that they want more from us. They require us to take a standardized test; many know this as either the ACT or the SAT. A multi-section test with hundreds of questions, only to be answered …show more content…
If you really think about it, the colleges are looking so closely at the scores people get that they forget the many different aspects of the student’s taking of the test that may negatively affect their score. In other words, as cliche as it may sound, the student may have just had a bad day or was really nervous about the test and “bombed” it. These occur more often than the colleges may think, but they continue to use these tests as heavy indicators of the student’s future. This only adds to the nerves students feel on test day, which most of the time leads to a decline in test scores and less of a chance of acceptance into a student’s desired college. What many of these colleges may not understand is that they are sometimes just accepting kids who are good test takers, while the better overall student has a letter sent home that practically says “Better luck next