Exit Exams In Schools Essay

Nebraska should not require its high school students to take an exit exam to graduate from high school. Even though exit exams make students work harder because they know this test is important and schools can identify student’s weaknesses early we should not have exit exams because it does not increase academic performance or increase students wages in states that do have them. Exit exams do not promote the skills, knowledge and habits needed for success in college or the real world. According to employers and college professors, high school graduates must be able to support arguments with evidence, analyze problems, and solve problems that have no obvious answer, conduct research, reach conclusions, and brainstorm ideas. Also skills needed are good study skills, time management and being aware of your performance.
Since exit exams do not measure most of these important skills,
Most tests just try to measure basic academic skills, they rely mostly on multiple-choice questions, some adding a few short written questions they rarely require students to apply their learning or engage in higher level thinking. A lot of jobs in today’s economy require you to be good at multitasking, being social, being able to analyze and apply information and work well with others none of which are measured by multiple choice exams that schools require.
Exit exams should not be necessary because $130 million is spent annually administering, training the teachers on how to teach the students for the exit exams, scoring the test and providing remediation for students who have failed one or both sections. This amount of money would be justified if it were shown that the exit exams improve overall academics, college and real world readiness, not one study has shown that it increases student’s preparedness for any of those things. That’s why I don’t think we should have to take exit