"Will this be on the test?"
We've all asked this question before -- asked ourselves, asked a teacher, asked a friend. Usually we don't really stop to think why we're asking this; we just try to figure it out and move on. What happens when the answer is no though? Skip over the information and move on to something else? I know that's what I do and, much more often than not, the things I actually did study are long forgotten a mere 24 hours after the test. But recently this little habit had me wondering why school has, for so many people, been reduced to nothing more than a giant test.
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