I completely agree. Those exams are a more reliable measure of class and status than actual ability.
I remember transferring schools, a month after a few short stories of mine got published. When I took the all-essay English competency test, I failed.
Now, I'm not smug enough to think that publishing a couple dippy short stories in a couple dippy journals makes me the king of all language. But you'd think I would have at least passed out of remedial English at that point. But no, according to this school, I had to retake high school English. It's been a billion years since that, and I'm still puzzled.
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Posted by Apricot to academicsecret at 9/26/2006 03:44:51 AM
