Picture a third grade student walking into their classroom to take the MCAs. They see the windows wide open welcoming in the spring air, cartons upon cartons of apple juice, and boxes of graham crackers. This little third grade student gets excited at the prospect of scarfing down the graham crackers and chugging their apple juice and then… POP! The “third grade student” is awoken from their fantasy of MCA Tests Past as soon as they set foot in the middle school classroom where they will really be taking the test, only to the find that this room has no wide open windows, no fresh spring air… and more importantly, no food. Once the entire class has settled down the teacher begins their speech on the importance of this horrendous three hour test. Although some students dread the MCAs, or Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, they do help our teachers to revise their curricula so that students can perform better and learn more in their classes. “I believe that having the MCA test can help the teachers to see where the students are at and then we can find areas that we need to work on and take students where they need to be,”