Apollo High School

It seems like we have been in school forever. It's practically all we can remember, and to think it really doesn't matter. You have gone to school for so many years and tried so hard to achieve good grades. But for what? That's right, to get in to college.
But come senior year, you find out the past years aren't going to be the deciding factor after all. It all comes down to a ridiculous test called the ACT. How could colleges (full of "smart people") judge someone all on one test?

How could someone who doesn't even know you create a test for you and expect you to have covered that information? Colleges have no idea what material each student has covered in high school. That would be why you rarely ever see a perfect score on these tests.

There has to be another way colleges could test incoming freshmen in college. Perhaps base it way more on students GPA. Colleges look at students' GPA now, but if that ACT score isn't up to par then you can kiss college goodbye.
I have always been told the dumbest thing you could do is to put all your eggs in one basket. Yet here I am, my senior year, taking a test to determine my success in the future.

Yet I feel the test will continue to live on for quite some time. They justify testing students on information that they have never learned by giving the public many ways to study. So hurry up and study! Learn what some students learn in a year in a few weeks. Only the strong will survive.

Don't get me wrong, I did rather well on the test (incase you were thinking I was whining out of frustration). But it eats at me to think that my past twelve years spent struggling to accel in school was a waste of time!