School might be tolerable if we could do away with tests. We would still have the awkward social situations and homework, but getting rid of tests would surely help. After all, who needs the late nights, the sweaty palms, or the mental blocks? What do you do if you've studied hard, but the teacher asks a question about the one part of the assignment you didn't understand? Then, we have to deal with the fist in the pit of the stomach when we get the grades back. For some people, the tests don't end until they take qualifying exams for doctoral study. Whether we are in school now, or just have the bad memories, we don't like tests. Oh, and teachers have to grade them, so even they don't like them. No matter what our opinion of tests is, they are here to stay. You have to take tests to get in…