Narrative Essay On Test Anxiety
It all started in my 2rd grade math class. My teacher, I can’t remember her name, gave us a minute math test and I bombed it. I have always been a perfectionist, so bombing my first test was devastating; I think I cried. Every test that I took after that one, I was determined to pass with the highest score possible. In result, I developed test anxiety. My test anxiety intensified when I started to take standardized tests.
Standardized test came into play when I was in 3rd grade. For some reason the government thought that going to class and making good grades wasn’t good enough, so they made us start taking tests that determined if we would move on or have to repeat a grade. I disliked these test because my teachers stopped teaching us content, …show more content…
This was the most annoying and tedious thing I think I have ever done. The tests were given online and the students kept falling asleep, playing with the paper, or trying to get out of the classroom; they took a lot of bathroom breaks. I felt their pain, and I was instantly reminded of the hundreds of test I have taken of the years. I tried everything I could, within the terms and conditions of administering a test, to keep them focused but those 5th graders were ready to eat, play and return to being children. It was disheartening to see the students when the test results were in. Some of them had to repeat the same grade and some of them got to move on to the next grade. I didn’t understand how one test determined if the would move on when they worked so hard all year to meet the requirements to move on. I think that some of the students have test anxiety like I did and may have had an off day where they weren’t performing as well as normal. In conclusion, I don’t think that administering standardized tests will be my favorite part of the year. I think that testing should be used to see where students are at and how to teach them. I do not think that basing the matriculation of a student on a single test is right. They work really hard and there are a number of things that could go wrong on the day of testing that could shift their focus, causing them to perform
Standardized test came into play when I was in 3rd grade. For some reason the government thought that going to class and making good grades wasn’t good enough, so they made us start taking tests that determined if we would move on or have to repeat a grade. I disliked these test because my teachers stopped teaching us content, …show more content…
This was the most annoying and tedious thing I think I have ever done. The tests were given online and the students kept falling asleep, playing with the paper, or trying to get out of the classroom; they took a lot of bathroom breaks. I felt their pain, and I was instantly reminded of the hundreds of test I have taken of the years. I tried everything I could, within the terms and conditions of administering a test, to keep them focused but those 5th graders were ready to eat, play and return to being children. It was disheartening to see the students when the test results were in. Some of them had to repeat the same grade and some of them got to move on to the next grade. I didn’t understand how one test determined if the would move on when they worked so hard all year to meet the requirements to move on. I think that some of the students have test anxiety like I did and may have had an off day where they weren’t performing as well as normal. In conclusion, I don’t think that administering standardized tests will be my favorite part of the year. I think that testing should be used to see where students are at and how to teach them. I do not think that basing the matriculation of a student on a single test is right. They work really hard and there are a number of things that could go wrong on the day of testing that could shift their focus, causing them to perform