Students have slowly learned simply how to take tests rather than comprehend and analyze information. The following satirical image alludes to the fact that students are simply taking tests while failing to acquire real world skills that they would need to use in jobs later in life. Furthermore, an aspect of standardized tests that often does not get mentioned is how it can deteriorate the mental health of students. Standardized tests can be draining as students tend to study for a test several days prior to it, leading to a lot of anxiety and stress which leads to them not getting good scores, which don’t properly show how much the students learned. In Ohio the pilot common core state testing led to 8 hours of testing for the fifth graders. According to an Ohio teacher, Neely-Randall, “One student couldn’t handle the stress of all of these tests and broke down in the middle of one. ‘She had a complete meltdown,’ Neely-Randall told the HPR. ‘And I could do nothing to help her, I