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Are test scores in school an actual representation of intelligence?
Being a student is hard work, no matter where you are in your education. Beyond the pressures from family (and yourself) to succeed at all costs, to the turbulent world around us, somedays it feels like we’re climbing up Mount Everest to get our piece of paper.
As the world becomes more populated, fields become more saturated and jobs become harder than ever to come by, students are pressured at younger and younger ages to succeed academically. Our futures are forecasted not just from our futures, but from our parents’ trajectory in their education and their career. Many believe that our parents socioeconomic status and education directly impact our own, which can often be discouraging for young people who feel as if they aren’t getting the head start that some others are.
As a student myself, I’ve often asked myself over the years about how much control I have in my educational outcome. Sitting in math class in high school, I wondered why test scores even mattered, and thought that there were too many other influences to really use an arbitrary number on one single day to be able to determine my trajectory for the rest of my life. Now as a college student pursuing my Bachelor of Design, we are hardly ever graded on wrote knowledge and more so on practical application. At various points in my education…
