EOC’s Aren't as Confusing as You May Think!
As a freshman, I still don’t know know about or understand everything concerning highschool customs and traditions. This includes end of course exams and ACTs, which apparently help students graduate and get into college. Being a freshman who is about to take three EOC’s next month, I will speak for the rest of the freshmen class and ask, why are EOC’s and ACT scores so important?
Students who are unfamiliar to LV’s testing and graduation policies need to know these things in order to do well in school. How are students supposed to study and prepare for the tests if they don’t know what they’re for besides seeing what they’ve learned? If we’re going to take multiple long tests, then shouldn’t we know why?
According to the Ohio Department of Education, students in high school take seven EOC’s: Algebra I, Geometry, Biology, American History, American Government, English I and English II classes. For each test, the student can get up to five points, with the requirement to graduate being eighteen total points from those seven tests. It is also required that students get four points from math, four from english, and six from both science and social studies total. Students are also able to gain points from CCP and AP tests if they score well enough.
There are a few other ways students can gain meet the graduation requirements as well, including getting an eighteen (or higher) score for English and a twenty two (or higher) score for math on the ACT or getting certified in the Ohio Landscape Nursery Technician through LV’s Agriculture classes and then passing a WorkKey, which is another form of test that can help students enter the workforce right out of college or high school.
According to Dictionary.com, the definition of education is “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.” This of course applies to Licking Valley motto: Every adult helping every child learn and grow every day! As a school, it is our job to teach others and to use our knowledge to both better our peers and our selves. All of the standardized testing is in place to further demonstrate what we’ve learned and through those tests, to show if we, the students, are ready for the workforce or college.
