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Persuasive Essay: I Will I Graduate High School

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Here I am, sitting, and stressing out about how much testing I have to take. Will I graduate high school? Am I going to get a certification of completion? I am so scared and nervous. I feel like such a failure; I have no tests passed, I have to pass my Algebra 1 EOC and my FCAT reading. These tests cause me anxiety; they are required to graduate. I don’t think I am going to graduate. This creates intense anxiety for me, especially since I have been dealing with it since I was 8. Florida has created so many standards but is completely unnecessary and there are so many replacements. Florida State department thinks we need tests to evaluate the students. According to (Testing and Education Reference Center) “make a plan don’t get stressed planning is key to …show more content…

It shows that they know how to do that. Testing will help you in the long run to see how much you can take under stress. You also get timed which is great because you have a certain amount of time to do all of it, that means there is no pressure to worry about spending too much time on each section. You have to worry about a section a time, than your not loosing track of time. These test cause to much stress in my opinion, well maybe its just me. I have anxiety I have had since the age of 8. Everyone said it was just stage I would grow out of as I got older. But then when high school start it spiked back up again. I had felt like such a failure not being able to pass these two tests. I had to start going to my physiologist again. She said I had

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