Hi all. This week I was arguing for Standardized testing when that is not really the full story. I will start with a little bit of background. In Ireland we end up sitting a state exam, the Leaving Certificate, (Leaving Cert) at the end of your final year of Secondary School (High School). Students are not called Seniors, but Leaving Certs! In early June, Leaving Cert students come back to school, which has finished a couple of days previously, and over a couple of weeks will sit a 3 hour paper in all the subjects they are taking, and 2 papers in Math and English. The exams arrive in a sealed box and get taken away in a sealed box and are corrected by a host of teachers over the next weeks before the results are sent back to school in the middle of August. As a student, it was all I knew, and I had no issue with it. Everybody does it and therefore you can compare yourself with friends and family. It turns out my brother is the book smart one! As I get older and see the other side o