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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and yes he did get As in his APs and all 4 and 5 on his AP tests, including the one he threw up before. Its the pressure of the big TEST the Sat and the ACT.[/quote]

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[b]The pressure of the ACT/SAT is tremendous.[/b]  [/quote]

Not it isn't. Thousands and thousands of kids take it every year without vomiting. Most only take it once. The test isn't the problem. [/quote]

Love how judgmental you are. Somehow I feel you’re likely the parent whose kids no longer speak to them.

Im the one with the kid who has test anxiety. Ds took the SAT and submitted his score, and got into the school he wanted. Not sure why you are picking on my Ds’s story to make some kind of inane point.  You can stop now because he does not fit the narrative you’re spinning.[/quote]

You are projecting, and I said nothing about your child, and I'm sorry if it sounded that way to you. I responded to the bolded idea of pressure coming from the test universally -- the test is not asserting pressure. Different people have different things that cause them anxiety, some to extremes: public speaking, text taking, bridge driving, close spaces, other people, heights. We don't eliminate these things for everyone else because of this.

In too many cases (again, not talking about your child), the pressure of a test comes from subtle and not so subtle messages some kids get about the test. Most kids in the country are not getting that message. But if a parent starts prepping a kid in elementary school, makes them start taking the test in 7th grade, gets them a tutor because the practice score was "too low," buys them three versions of prep book and sets up a Khan Academy account, then pressure is going to build up, and it is not the fault of the test. People around here find it impossible to believe that most people in the country don't put that much stock and pressure into the tests. If a kid feels like a 1540 is not good enough and wants to retake because the only acceptable college is MIT, that pressure is not coming from the test.[/quote]

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