Life as an Online College Student

I recently had to take a standardized test for my college course. I was not happy since it is stressful and does not count. We get a huge penalty if we did not take the standardized test so to have any hope of passing my current class I had to comply and take the exam. The standardized test was very difficult. I am sure that I did not do a very good job at all. I mean the wording of the test was very hard to comprehend. They want to measure how well we are doing in our college courses but these tests are too difficult and many of my fellow classmates agreed with me. I think that standardized tests cannot measure how knowledgeable you are in a particular subject or topic. I mean you can be very intelligent or book smart and have absolutely no common sense whatsoever. I am lost as to why educators want us all to take standardized tests I mean I would rather just have a transcript of my grades show how knowledgeable I am in a subject and call it a day. It was a very stressful experience. Have any of you taken these tests?

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