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1. How does standardized testing determine whether you will succeed in life?

2. I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate||Spoken Word

3. Suli Breaks

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y

5. Website, May 28, 2014

6. **S:** Suli Breaks
 * O:** Kids who are feeling that they are worthless due to how they perform in school
 * A:** High schoolers, college students, drop outs, college graduates
 * P:** To speak out against the stigma regarding school and self worth
 * S:** Exams, traditional education, intelligence
 * T:** Angry, passionate, charged

7. The video is a passionate rant against the idea that exam results can determine a student's intelligence or their potential for success.

8. The author claims that society is formed to make us believe that there is something wrong with us if we don't perform well in school, when in reality traditional testing techniques are too narrow and exclusionary to give a real indicator.

9. The fact that Suli Breaks uses an emotional appeal while also addressing a topic that has a direct impact on my life is a strong way of persuading me of his argument.

10. "We all have different abilities, thought processes, experiences, and genes. So why is it that a class full of individuals are tested by the same means? So that means she thinks she's dumb because she couldn't do a couple of sums?" "Exams are society's way of telling you what you're worth, but you can't let society determine your worth, because it's the same society that tells you abortion is wrong, and then looks down on teenage parents... Governments that preach peace but endorse wars...They believe so much in the importance of higher education and in further learning, then why increase tuition fees every single year?"