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　　Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life. Students hate them because theyproduce fear and anxiety about being evaluated, and focus on grades instead of learning forlearning's sake. But tests are also valuable. A well-constructed test identifies what you knowand what you still need to learn. Tests help you see how your performance compares to that ofothers. And knowing that you'll be tested on a body of material is certainly likely to motivateyou to learn the material more thoroughly. However, there's another reason you might disliketests. You may assume that tests have the power to define your worth as a person. If you dobadly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that you received some fundamentalinformation about yourself from the professor --- information that says you are a failure in somesignificant way. This is a dangerous and wrong-headed assumption. If you do badly on a test,it doesn't mean you are a bad person or stupid or that you'll never do better again and thatyour life is ruined. If you don't do well on a test, you're the same person you were before youtook the test. No better, no worse. You just did badly on a test. That's it! In short, tests are nota measure of your value as an individual. They're a measure only of how well and how muchyou studied. Tests are tools. They're indirect and imperfect measures of what we know.