Growing up, some of the scary memories include a visit to the dentist; a mean man with a scary exercise whose goal is to harm you or on the first day at elementary school you finally leave everything behind the cozy classrooms and nap times of kindergarten and enter the playground big ones. All of these are considered child's play compared to standardized tests. In the United States, since the beginning of elementary school, students have been taught to take tests. In many cases, students are held back or placed in remedial classes due to lower grades. But many don't realize that some students are not good at taking exams, and because of their lower grades, some educators believe that these students are less successful. This leads to lower self-esteem and encourages students to drop out later. Additionally, students are forced to memorize information simply as facts, without stimulating their creativity or improving their knowledge. Before the education reform movements of the 1970s and 1980s, standardized tests were primarily used as measures of student achievement that could be reported to parents and as a measurement tool. ways to note state and district trends (Moon 2) . Teachers paid little attention to these tests, which in turn had little impact on the curriculum. However, in the ongoing quest for better schools and high-achieving students, testing has become a central part of policy and practice. Standardized tests are tests that attempt to present unbiased material under the same predetermined conditions and with consistent scoring and interpretation so that students have an equal opportunity to give correct answers and receive an accurate assessment. The idea is that these similarities allow the highest degree of certainty in comparing results...... middle of article ......ct on good knowledge. It is therefore unfair to determine that a student can perform poorly in college simply because of a standardized test they took in high school. Overall, it is clear that standardized testing has had a negative impact on education in the United States. The main flaw is that policymakers have placed standardized testing at the center of our education system, which has led to vast changes in school curricula where educators have been forced to teach to test rather than teaching materials that promote creativity and improves knowledge. Howard Gardner, famous for his work on multiple intelligences, said he was not concerned that American children were ranked last among major industrial nations in the Third International Study of Mathematics and Science. He reported that the tests measure exposure to facts and skills, not children's ability to think (Ritter). 5).