Argumentative Essay On Student's Test Scores

“Why do I even have to take this stupid test?” I told myself after having to take the ACT for the third time with no luck of improving my score. My parents kept telling me to retake it because the higher the score, the better it will look when applying for colleges. Why do they look at this test so closely? This question crept through my mind through the years I would have to put up with the ACT. I clearly wasn’t good at taking standardized tests. Wasn’t my high school transcript enough? I had a 3.7 Cumulative GPA and was involved in clubs and sports. What did a silly test show that those things didn’t. How come other people got a better score than me after taking it just once. I perceived myself as a pretty smart kid. But why did I fail to improve? “What even is the ACT”, I thought to myself. “The questions are so simple and they’re all things I already know. It shouldn’t be that hard to get a decent score. Just look at your grades in school,” I told myself. These questions that I asked myself were never …show more content…
It does a good job at creating a standardized process for sorting through hundreds of applicants. And as I believe that there is a strong correlation between a student’s test scores and their intellectual abilities, I do however think the ACT could do a better way of testing this. It’s multiple choice format makes it different from tests taken in a lot of high school courses where there are true or false questions, short answers, maps to label. This format fails to uncover how one can think through problems, express opinions, or create a presentation rather; it finds out what the student was able to memorize through their school career. Even with its questionable format, I do think it does a good job at generalizing its taker’s intelligence. I’m sure almost all people who got a 36 on their ACT have gone on to be successful in their