By: Lanaya Salim

Lanaya Salim — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:29:23 +0000

I agree with you. I moved to Florida my junior year, so I had no training what so ever, for FCAT. I had no idea what it was when I got here. So they threw this test at me, and told me how important it was, and I don’t do good with tests, and by some miracle I passed the math the first time around which was shocking because I am horrible at math, but I had to take the reading one twice and that is my best subject, and I had to take it twice all because I missed something by half a point. HALF A POINT???
Luckily I passed and was able to graduate, but why do they have to put that pressure on us? I mean I had a 3.6 GPA and was doing well, and the state wants to tell me that I have to pass a silly test to graduate?

By: student

student — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:00:17 +0000

Trang Nguyen (Edison)
I’m so agree with you. I think Florida depend too much on the FCAT to get the student to stay in their grade level or move on, and also to see if the person could graduate.
I moved to Florida during my senior, so I don’t know the FCAT at all, and during my senior years, I was able to take the FCAT twice. I have test anxiety when ever I take a major test, so I wasn’t able to pass the FCAT, and if you didn’t pass the FCAT, you couldn’t graduate, which gives me a major impact, scaring I wouldn’t able to graduate. Even though I was in good academic standing, I couldn’t graduate, well eventually I could. But the FCAT just took so much pressure on the student, they need to worried about passing their class, then the FCAT, then worried about getting into college. During my whole senior year, the thing I learned are about the FCAT, and nothing else.

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