Standard Testing

In my opinion of standardized testing, I think that we need to have tests that can grade on our abbilities of reading and what not. The reason behind the testing is to see how well you are going to do outside of school and college. I mean whats it going to hert to sit down for a couple of hours and take a test that might better your intelect. Many people think that having to take a test is stupid because they dont want to take the time and actually try to get the awnsers correct. So they completely bomb the test by awnsering the questions as fast as they can to get out of the building. The reason behin the testing is to provide a systematic procedure for describing behaviors, whether in terms of numbers or categories. It's not like they just pull questions out of thin air they get the items from experience, either by experiment or observation, rather than theory.