As of this year, if a student takes a milestone test for a certain class, it replaces that final exam, meaning that the student will not have to go to school during the time that that certain exam would take place. The difference between the milestones and the final exams is that the state makes up Milestone tests while the teachers make up the final exams. This means that the teachers do not know exactly what is on the milestones. Therefore, they cannot guarantee the students what will be on the state tests. For final exams teachers are able to give students appropriate study guides that relate to the exact material on the final exams.

Sophomore Jeanna Speck said, “I do not like the milestones. I think the milestones are harder for students due to the fact that teachers teach based on what they think is important and what they write in the finals, rather than what the country writes, such as the milestones. The milestone questions are worded very vague and are sometimes hard to understand what it is asking of you.”