Standardized Testing

This week I decided to look up and research the stress and anxiety around the famous SAT and ACT standardized testing! This hit to the heart and I even agreed to write somewhat of a short essay around it. This has been more of a stressful and challenging week as I have been sick with the Covid sickness, and this is what made me write and research more into just testing and school anxiety and, of course, only the overall signs of some mental illnesses. I have gone through this week and felt very stressed out with all the assessments, making me think to do the SAT and ACT even matter anymore, or did they ever. As I stated in my research assessment, I gave many good reasons why I can't entirely agree with standardized testing. Still, now dealing with Covid, which is why standardized testing is being questioned in the first place, it very much made me think about if they matter anymore. Especially since Harvard is not looking primarily at test scores anymore, I believe that I have a lot more to look into this topic and honestly really enjoyed learning about it. I will keep looking more into and maybe even have my final work around this because I firmly believe in and crave to learn more about it