User blog comment:NovaSims/I Found Mumby!!/@comment-1630894-20120523201559/@comment-4727448-20120526144636

Meh. Even in America, I think the numberof exams is insane. But that's just my school.My current school has an extreme number of exams, one not prcticed anywhere else in New Yor, to be perfectly honest.

In a normal NY school, things go like this:

Knidergarten to Grade Three: CATs, more commonly known as the TerraNovas.

Grades Four to Eight: State Wide Exams. Math and English for every grade, but Fourth and Eighth have to take the Science Performence Test, an easy test involving completing three simpple lab experiments.Re

...However, the middle school I've been attending does TerraNovas until Eighth Grade. And they refuse to give us calculators, which they obliiged to give us by law during any question involving pi or an irrational number or algebra.

Regents from Grades Eight to Twelve. You have to pass these to pass a course.

Then there are SATs (Scholastic Aptitude Tests) that you need to go to college/university.

So last month I had statewides, this month I have TerraNovas, and next month are my Regents.

In fact, I have three months of exams. Insane, right?