Quotes About Testing

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Testing a product is a learning process

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.

Through the years, I have seen the records of many challenging students who tested at low levels because they were suffering from the emotional overload of their lives. It is common to see false scores at the lower end. A student cannot accidentally stumble up into the "advanced" level of an assessment, but many suffering students tumble down into the lowest percentages.

Don't stop giving sincere compliments when the student seems to be rejecting you—you are being tested to see if you can hold up to a bit of rejection. Some students will reject you before you can reject them. Don't let their attitude change your attitude of appreciation. They have to know that you believe that they can be successful in the culture.

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb

That day was also the first time a case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in South Korea, which promptly began an orderly regime of testing that limited the immediate impact of the virus. In contrast, Trump that night addressed the growing threat with his customary salesman's patter. "We have it totally under control," he said. No, they didn't, and Trump's feckless indifference in those early days cost thousands of American lives.

One, bitcoin is not a stand-alone currency but a unit of accounting attached to an innovative payment network. Two, this network and therefore bitcoin only obtained its market value through real-time testing in a market environment.

I just wanna see what I can get away with.

We never know who we are... until we're tested

You know what they say about baptisms and fire.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled — when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.

Por esto la mayor y primera tarea del filósofo es poner a prueba las representaciones y juzgarlas y no aceptar ninguna sin haberla puesto a prueba

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually their innermost desire is for an end to the "free for all." They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society. 29