Standardized Testing

Last week Westminster’s underclassmen were to undergo standardized testing. While they were doing this the juniors stayed in the Chapel watching movies and the seniors had a field trip that they attended. When standardized testing is brought up students first reactions are to freak out. I mean come on, nobody wants to stay in a room for four hours filling in bubbles on a scan-tron sheet, but it’s for a good cause. The standardized testing lets the school know how they are teaching us and how far along we are in our learning. Our teachers don’t do it to torture us but to help us succeed and know where our strong and weak points are in the classroom setting. Everybody had to go through those gruesome four hours but in the end it was way better than being in a real class. Everyone will reach junior and senior year when they won’t have to do the testing anymore. In reality, the testing helps us in school and we really shouldn’t complain. It doesn’t really count for anything like the ACT or SAT but it should count in our mindset. But the PLAN test that gets taken sophomore year is helpful with college. It will help you realize what score range you will get when you take the ACT your junior year. In reality standardized testing helps more than it hurts.


By: Beatrice Ponce