system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do we continue to give high-stakes tests, especially when they are counter-productive to both students and professors?

While this may seem like a cringingly naive question to ask this, however, the consequences of colleges that continue to unquestioningly to give hair-pulling exams aren't. It becomes more costly to the school and to the student to retake a class and postpone their graduation date, and extensive grading of these exams take away research time from professors and graduate students trying to get their foot in the door, and not to mention that even the most well-motivated students can succumb to life-tragedies in their semsters that cause them to bomb the exam entirely, thereby repeating the first sentence.
gpt
The language around high stakes testing didn't originate around finals, but rather achievement/qualifying exams like the SAT, ACT, and GRE.

Midterms and Finals in college courses are excellent assessments but not the totality of assessment. When paired with other forms of assessment and designed well, they offer a way to gauge student performance in one of the environments best suited to mitigate cheating.

For that reason, they are unlikely to ever go away.