Standardized Tests are much maligned by the media, teachers' unions and parent groups. At best, these tests demonstrate a valid measure of learning and quality teaching. At worst, a necessary (or unnecessary) evil. Either way, they are here and not going away anytime soon. Given this reality, the best that we as educators and parents can do is to help students test to their potential and demonstrate a valid measure of their learning. Some students, teachers and parents might consider this "selling out" by teaching to the test. We, at Keys Test Prep, humbly disagree. If time is spent helping students to better understand how they are measured (right or wrong) and what content and skills for which they will be measured, they are more likely to feel, when they put their pencils down and close the exam book, like they performed as well as they possibly could have done. By Unlocking the Keystone Exams in this way, they will have become a better and more prepared test-taker.

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