While trouble with friends and school might cause someone to become overly stressed, it is also easy for stress to push someone to another extreme. Many teenagers deal with their stress by drinking or doing drugs. ... It is easy for one to see how this could be stress producing. ... Studying for this huge test can cause an enormous amount of stress, if not done correctly. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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While trouble with friends and school might cause someone to become overly stressed, it is also easy for stress to push someone to another extreme. Many teenagers deal with their stress by drinking or doing drugs. ... It is easy for one to see how this could be stress producing. ... Studying for this huge test can cause an enormous amount of stress, if not done correctly. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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While trouble with friends and school might cause someone to become overly stressed, it is also easy for stress to push someone to another extreme. Many teenagers deal with their stress by drinking or doing drugs. ... It is easy for one to see how this could be stress producing. ... Studying for this huge test can cause an enormous amount of stress, if not done correctly. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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While trouble with friends and school might cause someone to become overly stressed, it is also easy for stress to push someone to another extreme. Many teenagers deal with their stress by drinking or doing drugs. ... It is easy for one to see how this could be stress producing. ... Studying for this huge test can cause an enormous amount of stress, if not done correctly. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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Stress can come from the work environment as well. ... Test questions were made easier, and questions asked in class were answered by the instructor while the athlete received the credit. ... The stress of the company is on my shoulders and I have to prove myself to him now more than ever. ... Stress is apart of life, and students need to cope with the pressures of working and going to school at the same time. ...

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Are standardized tests effective? ... Most schools that are involved in standardized testing make their teachers teach to the test. ... Standardized testing is any form of testing where the students are tested on the same test questions in order to get proper data to analyze the student's' ability. ... It doesn't tell how smart a student is because some people don't work well under pressure and stress" and "Standardized tests do not test a student's knowledge whatsoever; they test memory. ... Students say that the test promotes cheating and memorizing test m...

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A credible test is defined as actually measuring what the test says it measures. ... Through the comparison of subject specific tests and GPA to broad standardized tests, it is clear that the principles of our education system must be redefined. ... Based on the feedback from the student's test results, they have the opportunity of improving themselves by studying the specific area's of the test. ... "Another complaint against standardized tests is that they cause stress among educators and students. ... However, the underlying goal in this way of learning is unhealthy and cause...

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Personally when I was 12 the only examinations that I experience were simple Math and English tests. ... The amount of stress that is put on the children as they grow up is exponential as the year's progress. ...

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It was usually checked daily and tests and quizzes were given periodically. ... Stress is a word I never fully understood as a high school student and I am beginning to learn the real meaning of responsibility. ...

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Why are the majority of grades focused on test taking? ... A student should not be tested on the time it takes them to complete a test. ... The last reason why grades should not mean as much as they do is because of the major stress level that rises in kids when grades come around. I know kids (2 actually) who have committed suicide because of stress. ... They are worthless because they test kids who suck at taking tests. ...

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Homework creates really bad and unnecessary working habits, homework creates stress for students especially those in higher grades, they need to study for tests, homework shortens your free time, for yourself and when wanting to spend time with family members and friends. ... The second reason homework should be banned is because it causes stress to students. Homework can add to existing stress or can create stress that is unwanted. ... Due to the amount of stress that homework causes students, grades can lower and this may cause more stress towards the student and make them more depressed cau...

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State tests should be an option for each student who decides to participate. State tests can be a hassle and sometimes depressing. ... They can take the tests and see which levels they need to improve on. This helps but if the child does not need to stress or feel the need to improve their grades then they don't have to take the test. ... Therefor the teenager can test their progress optionally. ...

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Many say that more homework causes more stress on students and families. ... Standardized test should not be a useful measure, and for elementary school kids more homework is not associated with doing better in school. There are studies that show a slight relationship between homework and test scores. ... There is no positive outcome of more homework except more stress on the child. ... Teachers should think back to when they were students and the stresses they had to go through. ...

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They then find out that there is not enough time to read their text causing them to find other means to do well on their tests. The result is trying to cheat or plagiarize, either off the Internet or copying someone else's work during a test. ... After receiving good marks we all laughed about how easy the test was forgetting about how we got the mark. ... This load of work causes loss of time and lots of stress towards school because the student now has other responsibilities to deal with. ... After I quit, I began to stress over finding a new job because I just lost my only source o...

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I eagerly went to the front of the Human Biology lecture hall and confidently picked of the five- page test only to see my first failed test in my life. ... I am too stressed and do worse on tests that I would have done much better on if I had not had as much stress on me. ... But because of these expectations, I believe that the results outweigh me more negatively than positive, because pressure creates stress and I feel stress affects my performance in a pessimistic way. ...

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Students who are lucky enough to maintain a healthy sleep pattern are more likely to score better on standardized tests, and failing to receive 8 hours per night can cause students to fall asleep during classes, resulting in them missing material taught during lessons. ... Sleep deprivation affects the body's capability of managing normal functions, such as coping with stress and managing one's mood. ... With stressors coming from each direction in the average teenager's day, the ability to handle stress is crucial to our quality of life. Leaving stress unmanaged can lead to ove...

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The SAT's are a large determining factor that we must deal with and take classes to study for and we do many things just to prepare for this one test and in my parents time this test was not even existing. ... Today's generations are expected to get a car as soon as they can drive which puts stress on parents as well as the kids. ...

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Many students feel the stress of managing their regular classes, homework, exams, studying, part-time jobs, and finding time to socialize with friends. In addition, high school students have the pressure of passing all the standardized tests, like the SAT, ACT, and Exit Exams, to be able to graduate. ... In additional, many students choose to take psychoactive drugs and become a drug abuser as a choice to reduce the stress. ... When these students come to the stage of using alcohol to release the stress it means that they have tried everything and they failed, they want to use alcohol to es...

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More assessment, different forms of assessment, and accountability programs that stress the establishment of standards for student performance are some of the many methods currently being explored or implemented by school districts around the country. ... He pointed to a number of factors that contributed to a slow but steady growth in test scores in all grade levels of students in those states between 1992 and 1996. ... He noted the political leadership of both states stressed an incremental approach in which reform policies included clear teacher objectives by grade, high academic standards...

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They select over achievers who have high grade point averages and high test scores. ... When it comes to test scores not everyone are good test takers. ... Rather you pass a test should not determine rather you are smart or dumb. ... A lot of the times students get so stressed out before the exams that their brain crashes when it is actually time to take it. ... There are also some people who do not understand anything in the entire course but they end up passing their college placement tests. ...

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All the pain, disappointment, and stress were recycled into motivation to help me push through with incredible force. ... I would have saved everyone a lot of disappointment and stress. ... School teaches you to work in different environment and most people don't even realize they're being tested for the real world....

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The stress of getting married, graduating, getting ready for the test was a lot to handle. ... I found that really involving myself with exercise and staying active in my community was the best "stress" reliever I could ever find. ...

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The best-known test that claims to measure academic aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. ... If the test measures things that are taught in school, that is usually a sufficient rationale for its content, but test like the Stanford- Binet and the Scholastic Aptitude test also try to test skills to include therefore involves inane direct way. ... The tests are also methodological bias. ... Standardized tests as well as other tests can lead to prediction bias. ... In subsequent years, conflicts over school governance and intractable problems of poverty led some educators to focus on vari...

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Finland achieves the same educational success, without causing the student and their family the high stress and pressure that the South Korean system induces. ... Finland does not do any assessments or testing of their students until they finish secondary school at age sixteen. ... The U.S. testing system could be reformed by schools or states, as long as the main goals were being accomplished. ... The U.S. should discontinue testing until children are older as officials do in Finland. ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students compare ...

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But this past semester I had more to deal with than the usual projects, tests, and homework's. ... These events caused a deal load of stress from interviews with cops, calls from reporters and strangers about what's going on and not to mention I may never see my friend again. ...

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