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Stefanie
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In five months time, we will again be having the NAPLAN test. A test that us school students must endure every second school year up until grade nine, so some idiotic, high profile politician can make pretty graphs loaded with statistics.
These tests suck, period. They are so pointless, not to mention inaccurate and a waste of valuable learning time. To be honest, if the government had any brains, they would leave well enough alone. If we are to test the literacy and numeracy abilities of us students, it should be throughout the school year, and not for 50 minutes on a Monday morning.
Besides, how is throwing in a section of reading material and then asking multiple choice questions on it doing anything.
For starters:
1. People can guess - A boy in my art class guessed every question on a maths one and still got a high distinction. Therefore only proving he can shade a bubble.
2. It tests your ability to interpret data and not your reading skills - What if you can read the material perfectly fine, but answer the question wrong?
Not to mention the writing task. How the hell can you judge someones writing ability by asking them to craft, plan, write and edit a narrative in 40 minutes?
I'm not complaining, but these are a waste of time. Each school should submit their own statistics of how their students are performing, and not through some banged up literacy test that tells you to explain whether Susie had blue or pink hair in the article.
It would indeed be very interesting to see how the education ministers performed in these tests.
I do not need some moron in a suit to tell me I can read and write at an appropriate standard. SCRAP THE NAPLAN TESTS.
These tests suck, period. They are so pointless, not to mention inaccurate and a waste of valuable learning time. To be honest, if the government had any brains, they would leave well enough alone. If we are to test the literacy and numeracy abilities of us students, it should be throughout the school year, and not for 50 minutes on a Monday morning.
Besides, how is throwing in a section of reading material and then asking multiple choice questions on it doing anything.
For starters:
1. People can guess - A boy in my art class guessed every question on a maths one and still got a high distinction. Therefore only proving he can shade a bubble.
2. It tests your ability to interpret data and not your reading skills - What if you can read the material perfectly fine, but answer the question wrong?
Not to mention the writing task. How the hell can you judge someones writing ability by asking them to craft, plan, write and edit a narrative in 40 minutes?
I'm not complaining, but these are a waste of time. Each school should submit their own statistics of how their students are performing, and not through some banged up literacy test that tells you to explain whether Susie had blue or pink hair in the article.
It would indeed be very interesting to see how the education ministers performed in these tests.
I do not need some moron in a suit to tell me I can read and write at an appropriate standard. SCRAP THE NAPLAN TESTS.