What most students do when Achievement Test comes?

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Well, some diligent students are preparing for this because they believe it counts the score they've got. They have to cram by studying and read every page in a book to get higher grades.

Achievement Test like NAT (National Achievement Test) has to be taken nationwide by students all over the schools in the Philippines to determine the literacy rate and their IQ (intelligence quotient). It determines also how a student copes up with the lesson they took up and which region has a higher teaching level either in public schools or in private schools.

So how about those students who are so-called "happy-go-lucky"?

When I think of these fellows, I feel pity for them. It's not only in them but also to their parents. Not all the time the parents could sustain their necessities to their studies because not anytime they could have money. Parents are working too hard to give their child some allowance and in their requirements. They are doing this because they expect their children would finish school, find a good job and help them when they are getting older.

But it seems students nowadays are waiting for luck. Some students are now faced in a modern technological society where they are very hooked on to the gadgets that's in today. Back to the topic, when they hear the word 'achievement test' they feel bored and pressured because instead spending time to relax, they have to review for the past lessons they've tackled. When I asked a student from a public school he just answered:

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"How could I get worried for that test. It's just a test for you to answer either you'll take it seriously or to just make fun of it. It's a multiple choice and it doesn't affect your grades. Anyways, it will be checked after the school year.." said he.

When I jotted down his statement, questions have grown and risen up in my mind. How could he say that it doesn't affect his grades and you can make fun of it? I realize that some students don't think about how important it is to take this achievement test. Don't you know that NAT is important to find out how the students in the Philippines excel and progress when it comes to academics and for the Department of Education to add some school curricula to motivate the students' mind?