(this is completely sideways, but recently I found myself thinking that other exams should not be testing intelligence instead of their stated purpose. When an English test requires you to hold in your head facts, …, it starts to be less about English and more about “something else”.)
“English” keeps ending up as a catch-all in K-12 for basically all language skills and verbal reasoning skills that don’t obviously fit somewhere else. Read and summarize fiction—English, Write a persuasive essay—English, grammar pedantry—English, etc.
(this is completely sideways, but recently I found myself thinking that other exams should not be testing intelligence instead of their stated purpose. When an English test requires you to hold in your head facts, …, it starts to be less about English and more about “something else”.)
“English” keeps ending up as a catch-all in K-12 for basically all language skills and verbal reasoning skills that don’t obviously fit somewhere else. Read and summarize fiction—English, Write a persuasive essay—English, grammar pedantry—English, etc.