State Tests [RANT]

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you know i reeeeally dont get it. I know colleges want these scores to prove they have great awesomeo students that attend but WHY??? We take sooo many tests just to prove that we are something we arent? there are teens in the world who really think they arent going any where because of what a test is telling them. They can have sooo many great qualities but no on will want them on their campus because they arent what they are "looking for" even if they can build a rocket out of their arse for crying out loud. I know because I am one of those people. Im a terrible state test taker and i fear for my future. I have people telling me i'm smart but knowing big words and having deep conversations doesnt make you smart, it makes you a good person to debate with. i got a 630 on my SAT just on the math and reading section. Im EMBARRASSED that i scored so low and low my school is voicing it quietly. I was having a chat with my guidence councler about college and she was refering me to colleges that only take the kids who didnt do great in school. WHy are there colleges like that? arent we all supposed to have an equal opportunity? i have an amazing GPA but the tests matter more than what we actually did in school!! Its basically twelve years of bullshit and lies!!! I went through school with people telling me i can be anything i want to and there is no one to stop me as long as i try and guess what, i've broken my back to try and get where i am now to be told I CANT BECAUSE IM NOT GOOD ENOUGH. I get all the time that i've become a negative person and LIFE made me this way because it aint all shits and giggles. Im sorry for the profanity but i am upset and i just needed to let a few things out. can anyone relate? :confused:

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I can partially relate

Though I didn't bust my ass of because I always knew that's the way it works, lacked motivation and just didn't care for awhile

But with my natural intelligence.. I fared through some grades as an honor student, with less than 50% attendance rate ( for all grades ), everybody always told me since I was little that I am smart, some dubbed me as a genius though thankfully that never fully got into my head and I'm not the kind of smart person who relies on cold hard logic and big words - not my thing.

Though I've always done great in things that interested me.. I faced the incredible possibility of not graduating because my math is horrible, mostly due to me having a complete lack of interest for it and winging it for the past 5 years.

Since nobody gives a shit if your art, music, biology, history grades are always perfect or that your geography, sociology, languages, chemistry etc are near perfect or always a very strong 80%.

Nope to graduate all anybody cares about is STATE EXAMS! Two of them being set by the state of course, home language & maths! And the third chosen by the individual.

Of course fail one of these and you have to retake it, fail twice and you fail the entire year and just ''retaking'' the test is pretty much impossible without waiting another year.

I took as my 3rd my A foreign language, English and scored a 100%.. Lol I scored on my home language around 80% ( shame but well that exam is more detailed and harder for obvious reasons )

Since I never cared much about math I never bothered learning it and so it dawned on me I might fail without a choice in the matter.. However being an absolute bohemian I didn't study for any of my exams.

Somehow I passed the maths exam with barely over 50% ( thankfully they had some logic assignments there that weren't based off of crazy formulas you'll never need in your life time )

[FunnyHaHa]

ughhh I hate state tests..I am so bad at taking them!