Throughout my educational career standardized testing has been a major part in determining whether or not you can proceed to the next grade or whether you have to take the class again. A Lot of kids that were my age when I had to take the STAAR test usually dreaded having to take a standardized test like the STAAR English II exam. I was no different, I was one of those kids who just wanted to get this test done with and move one. For a while this philosophy of mine worked, however that all would change when I ended up failing the English II STAAR test during my sophomore year of high school. Thus leading to a change in how I would view standardized testing and how my writing composition skills would eventually improve and affect my life.
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This ultimately would not end up being the case as I would actually end up gaining knowledge in a few categories. The main skill that I gained from this experience was writing composition skills. For a big portion of my educational career my writing skills were subpar. For example before I went through this experience when I had to write an essay or other related papers I would often struggle with it from the introduction to the conclusion. And when I received my grades for these papers they were often below average, this led me to have a somewhat negative outlook on …show more content…
During this time I was having trouble on writing a top level high school paper like a lot of the other students in my class. Looking back on this you could tell that eventually my lack of writing skills would catch up to me and it happened. When I completed the required class over the summer I felt more confident in my writing skills than ever before. I remember our first essay for english III and feeling nervous because it was my first graded essay since taking the class. Once I completed it I remember feeling confident in my work, which is something I really have not felt when writing a paper for a while. When I got my grade back it ended up being one of the best paper I wrote during my high school
I …show more content…
This ultimately would not end up being the case as I would actually end up gaining knowledge in a few categories. The main skill that I gained from this experience was writing composition skills. For a big portion of my educational career my writing skills were subpar. For example before I went through this experience when I had to write an essay or other related papers I would often struggle with it from the introduction to the conclusion. And when I received my grades for these papers they were often below average, this led me to have a somewhat negative outlook on …show more content…
During this time I was having trouble on writing a top level high school paper like a lot of the other students in my class. Looking back on this you could tell that eventually my lack of writing skills would catch up to me and it happened. When I completed the required class over the summer I felt more confident in my writing skills than ever before. I remember our first essay for english III and feeling nervous because it was my first graded essay since taking the class. Once I completed it I remember feeling confident in my work, which is something I really have not felt when writing a paper for a while. When I got my grade back it ended up being one of the best paper I wrote during my high school