Students want to shine amongst others and prove that they are superior in their studies. Historically, standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT have been used as a tool to measure how students compare with one another and to show how well a student has grasped a specific curriculum. A standardized test is an examination that is controlled and scored in a consistent or standard manner. This means that the same test is given to every test taker and is taken in the same routine. Although standardized testing plays a key role in our country’s education program and as a determinant of admission for many students applying to college, the flaws of assuming that such tests objectively measure all intelligence and learning in the system make it an insufficient and unfair way of determining an individual’s intelligence and academic achievement. Just because standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT have been baselines for evaluating and determining how well students learn, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is a fair determinant of what the test supposedly measures. So what are the problems with these two tests? The problems arise when discussing the proposed objective measure of learning versus the subjectivity of those taking the standardized testing. One main problem is that many students primarily see it as a way to rank themselves against their classmates. Everybody is aware enough to realize that they are constantly being evaluated in today’s society. By the time students reach college, many students have already attained a conditioned feeling as though they are being graded on everything that they do. However, every person evaluates themselves differently than others. Most, if not all, college students endeavor to obtain numeric ranks that allow them to be above the rest, or “the competition” in their eyes. Students nowadays tend not to question themselves on subjective aspects like values that are tough to quantify, such as happiness. The crux of the matter is that it is also a struggle to quantify how much of what a person has learned when learning is multi-faceted and in many ways subjective. The SAT and ACT has been trying to objectively quantify learning for quite a while now. Both these tests are unfair to the students because everybody taking these tests are different minded. Every student thinks and tests in a complete different manner. The fact that quantifying one’s intelligence is a difficult task leads to the discussion of how standardized tests are unfair and are not an effective tool in measuring some aspects of what a person has learned. Everybody answers the exact same questions under the same specific conditions when taking standardized tests. Most of the time these tests are in a multiple-choice format. These tests prize quick answers to superficial questions. It is what standardized tests do not measure that has many people quarrelling. Olaf Jorgenson explains here, “We know that they don't measure a child's creative ability. They don't require children to research, explain, debate, elaborate, present, rebut, or improv