Recently, I’ve noticed that when you do an English exam or test, you could get more or less points than you deserve. Why? Because English isn’t mainly graded on your grammar and punctuation or your writing technique, it’s graded on someone’s opinion over yours.

Sure, maybe the way you wrote in your exam wasn’t to your full potential, but when someone asks you to write about your thoughts and opinion on a topic and you do it, you shouldn’t be graded on your opinion. Say if the topic was ‘How Would You Stop Racism?’ and you wrote ‘I’d tell black people that no one actually cares enough to try and hurt them specifically so they should stop being the racist ones and shut up.’ and the person who was grading your exam didn’t agree with you,  they would give you a lower grade than you deserve. That’s not how you grade an exam! An exam should be graded by how well you wrote your opinion, not on what your opinion is! Or say if you had to answer some questions on a poem, but you don’t really have a thing for poetry, so you tried your hardest and fulfilled the requirements for the exam. Again, the person would be grading how well you spotted things in the poem and how you wrote them, not what you wrote.

Long story short: English is all opinion. You could write the greatest story in the world with the best grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and there would still be people who wouldn’t like it.

P.S.
What was written about racism wasn’t my opinion, it was just an example, so don’t go hating on me.