Throughout their academic life, students will be asked to participate in prestigious exams, or as they are more commonly known as standardized exams. Do these exams actually measure a student's academic abilities or do they just measure their progress? Although these exams cannot measure a student's intelligence, they can show their progress in the subjects they are tested on. Therefore, when students are informed that these exams will be used to see their progress, they will not feel discouraged. take the exams. So, instead of feeling stressed or discouraged, they will be motivated to pass their exams, since their goal is to see progress in themselves. Teachers want to see progress in their students, but students fear that making mistakes on this exam will hinder their academic progress, because if a student gets a low score in one of the subjects, they must take a remedial course and most students will. not like this idea. Without mistakes, how are teachers supposed to help their students? Small errors are good on a standardized test, because errors "give teachers guidance to help them determine what to teach students and when to teach it" (Columbia University, The Pros and Cons of Standardized Tests ), where teachers will create ways to help students understand the subject and encourage further student progress. Not only do these tests examine student progress, but they also measure teacher progress, because according to worklife.columbia.edu "the greatest benefit of standardized testing is that teachers and schools are responsible for teaching students what 'they have to do. know for these standardized tests. (Columbia Universe......middle of article......-skills/standardized-tests/many-colleges-require-a-standardized-test-for-admission/>.Walberg, Herbert J . “Stop the War Against Standardized Tests.” Defining Ideas: May 20, 2011: p. context. Web. May 5, 2014. .Phelps, R. (2011). quantitative studies [ebook] Available at: http://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Resources/QuantitativeList.pdf [Accessed May 5. 2014].