First of all, let me say that what you are about to read is me venting over a standardized test.

I have to take the CAHSEE standardized test in February. The book that I am reading says these standardized tests do not measure your academic achievements. If anything, they measure how well you can take a standardized test. I hear that there is no relationship between academic achievement and standardized test scores. There does seem to be an associative relationship between poverty levels and standardized test scores.

So why do they do it? So politicians can express "concern" over test scores, lying about test scores reflecting on a student's education.