I am currently a senior in college, pursuing a teaching degree. To be admitted into the final stages of my program (AKA being able to student teach) I have to basic a certification test. Before this test was the MTTC (Michigan test for teacher certification), but this test has changed in the past year to something else. Now I have to take the SAT. There are resources such as the CollegeBoard website and companies like Kaplan that have great testing resources.

There may be a few resources to help you prep (like the ones listed above) but, let's be honest we've been out of the standardized test game for a minute. Collegeboard also has an app you can download to have daily test questions and tips that I found handy. But even with the apps, books and online resourecs this still is not a test that should be in the equation to determine if I am ready to be a teacher!

Well here are some reasons why this test is completely pointless in determining if I am "ready" to be a teacher:

1. This test has nothing to do with that I am learning.

2. This test is meant for high schoolers and determining their level of being ready for college.

3. If everyone has to take this test in high school no matter what they are planning on studying, how does this have anything to do with if I am ready to be a teacher?

4. If this test is measuring high school knowledge, how does the content pertain to what I will be teaching in elementary school?

5. It is taking time away from me working on actual work in my degree, to study for a test that I will just forget about completely after it is passed.

6. It's more money I have to pay.

7. Since we do not cover what is on the test at all in college, we have to also pay for resources to refresh us on the material.

8. We often argue about how standardized tests are not good for students, but we allow it to determine our fate if we will be a teacher.

9. You will have people from 14 years old to 45+ taking the same test.

10. They are offered at high schools not college campuses so now college students are responsible for getting themselves to and from a place that most likely isn't even local to them.

11. We have to keep taking it until both sections have a certain score.

12. If we only need to pass one section we still have to sit through the whole test.

13. The first thing you see on the college board website is "college starts here", well college started for me 4 years ago.

14. Registering is a pain because there is no way to select that you are in college so you have to fill in all your high school information, and request to have the scores sent over.

15. I still have to take another certification test when I graduate.

16. My math classes are for elementary teachers and we are not even allowed to use calculators, but the SAT has high levels of math where you will need to use one.

17. If you do not pass it, it is putting you more behind in graduating.

18. If it takes you multiple times to pass if you are discouraging someone from wanting to be a teacher.

19. We keep adding more requirements towards a profession that is struggling to find teachers to hire.

20. Its unneeded stress to put on a college students plate.

21. If we want test prep classes they won't be offered on campus, we would have to hire a private tutor.

22. Just because I score high on this test does not mean I will be an effective teacher.

23. We get looked at really strange, since we have to sit in the front row of testing because we are older.

24. This test does not measure what I am learning in college, it is measuring what you have been working on in high school.

25. I'm not in k-12 anymore, standardized tests should not be a thing.

26. These test do not measure knowledge they measure your ability at test taking.

27. Taking it now, is so much harder than when you were in high school.

28. High school scores allow you to opt out of it, but yet some schools do not take the same standardized tests.

29. This test haunts you.

30. College does not leave you with a lot of extra time for additional studying.

31. I pay obscene amounts of money for college, that's what I should be focusing on. Not the SAT.

32. At the bottom of the college board website it gives you links for college planning and college search. Already done that.

33. On the college board website it says that college board helps students prepare for a successful transition to college. I did that 4 years ago.

34. It also says under 'why take the test' that this is how colleges make an admissions decision.

35. Once again, I'M ALREADY IN COLLEGE.

36. You're making me take a test that has transition, preparation, and help written on it for getting into college. How is that currently relevant?

37. Some students had better resources in high school to do well, we do not necessarily have those resources readily available now.

38. This test was not required when I was in high school, it shouldn't be required now.

39. As educators we say we are against standardized tests but we make it a requirement to be a teacher?

40. Not many college students are able to pass it on the first try.

41. They said the MTTC had gotten to hard for teachers to pass, so our solution was just another standardized test?

42. It's making us feel like we are not smart enough to be in our program.

43. I pay to go to school and get a degree, and now I have to keep paying until I pass it.

44. My productivity in my program doesn't matter, this test is taking over and becoming the deciding factor.

45. I'm just trying to get on with my life and this is turning into a major road block.

46. It's a joke in classrooms even among professors.

47. Half the time the people deciding what tests we should take are not even educators, just corporate honchos.

48. This is now a reason people may decide to not be a teacher.

49. You're giving college students another reason to have a breakdown.

50. A COLLEGE ADMITTANCE EXAM SHOULD NOT DETERMINE IF I AM QUALIFIED/READY TO BE A TEACHER. THIS TEST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT I AM LEARNING AND DOES NOT PERTAIN TO BEING A TEACHER.

If you cannot tell already, this test makes me very irritated. It's even more irritating that colleges are on board with this and are allowing this to be a deciding factor if I get my degree.

Study now kids, you never know when this test may come back to haunt you.