Tahlia Scherer, Features Editor@tscherercourant Long gone are the days of number two pencils, the strenuous bubbling in of scantron sheets and the seemingly ceaseless page-flipping
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Messages from a capable student and suffering standardized test taker
Kate McMahon Opinions Editor As much as I would like to say that I spent my summer cocooned in a cashmere blanket watching Netflix, it
The SBAC’s: Another test, another painful acronym
Alex Hutchins Web Manager Well, it’s that time of the year again. The birds are singing, the flowers are growing in a ROY G. BIV
New standardized testing to be introduced
Carly Risom
Reporter
The Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT) is the standardized testing that sophomores have been taking since the early nineties. The tests are state-based exams used to measure the performance of Connecticut students. “The exams are used to test student proficiency across the state,” Principal Dr. Bryan Luizzi said. “They are brought in to align high school curriculums with state standards.”