Testing Testing Testing!

I don't really think it is a good idea to be tested on  what you have learned because when you get to high school people take different classes and learn different things.  Like the ACT for example, they can test on pre-calc when some people haven't taken pre-calc yet and don't know what to do but are planning to take pre-calc next year.  Or if you couldn't get into a class that you wanted like chemistry, and the ACT could test you on things that you would learn in chemistry, you wouldn't know what to do even when you wanted to take that class but you just couldn't.  I think we have to have big tests to see how school are doing with teaching their students so that they are not just wasting the kids time.  If there were not any tests school would probably be pointless.  I mean you need to be able to know how well people learned what was taught but the testing should be fair.