Achieve, an organization that helped develop the Common Core Standards, states that nearly forty percent of students were not prepared for postsecondary education (“I graduates are unprepared for college"). Their report includes a statement arguing that student achievement is low because schools set the wrong expectations for their students. To some extent, this is true as secondary education has unfortunately shifted towards learning how to take and pass standardized exams rather than understanding the concepts behind the subjects they are supposed to learn. Learning academic material through test-like instruction has been shown to be ineffective in learning the content itself (Koretz et al. 2). This means that exam results do not truly reflect how much students are learning. Instead, they create an illusion of knowledge on the part of students. The problem lies in the fact that universities and the government measure students through standardized tests, and this harms both the teacher and the student in preparing for exams. This leads students to start thinking about problems as if they were tests and not take a creative or practical approach