Question

Read this paragraph:

The only ability that we know for certain that standardized test can measure is the ability to take test. A student with a short attention span, a student who suffers from lack of sleep, a student who fails to decipher a poorly written question, is doomed to bear the label of "unsatisfactory aptitude" when aptitude was never in fact a variable

What is mostly clearly the central idea of the paragraph?

Answer 1

Standardized tests are ineffective.

Answer 2

The central idea of this paragraph is that standardized tests not always can measure the student's aptitude. Generally, tests measure the knowledge the student is capable to show at a particular moment in a pre-established period of time. If said student can develop the topics in the given time, he/she will probably pass the exam. However, people are not machines, so even though the student manage the topics he may fail the exam for having lost attention, or being suffering from lack of sleep, among other possible reasons.