All the students attending in school are judged based on a single test. Some people think that exams are the best, standardized way measuring how intelligent they are. However, I think that tests do not measure how intelligent a student is.

 

First of all, there are many different kind of intelligence besides of academic like many virtues. The academic intelligence is only a portion of intelligence, while there are no accurate ways of measuring the other virtues and intelligence. I also believe that measuring those intelligence by exams is not an accurate way.

 

Second of all, the tests do not accurately measure the intelligence is because students perform poorly in their exams when they are so anxious. I often get so nervous when I perform the test, I don’t even concentrate on the test at all, and thus get poorer grade than I thought. This means that doing poorly on the exam doesn’t mean that you are not intelligent.

 

To sum up, while many people thinks that grades are an accurate measure of how smart a student is, I think tests do not measure how intelligent a student is. This is because there are different kinds of intelligences that can’t be measured by exams, and students can get poorer grade than their original intelligence.