Since the start of the second semester, reports of the NC Testing Center being difficult to find have steadily increased. Students are struggling to find the room, causing make-ups and retakes to be left incomplete. 

“The Testing Center is near impossible to find,” Johnny Jones ‘24 said. “Whenever I need to take a test, the room’s location seems to switch. I swear, finding the room is a harder test than the one I’m actually trying to take.”

When someone signs up to take a test, they receive an email confirming the date, time, and location, testing center supervisor Myla Soy said. 

“I don’t understand why students have such difficulty locating the room,” Soy said. “It’s not that hard as the room stays in the same place and is clearly labeled on the door.”

Students have voiced concern that when they try to enter the so-called Testing Center, they always end up at a different part of the school.

“It is the strangest thing,” Jones said. “I opened the door of room 31, the TestingCenter room, and it led me straight into the yoga room, which is located in a different building. I didn’t know what was happening, so I exited the same door, opened it again, and ended up in the library. I felt like I was going insane. I went to tell my math teacher what had happened, and she thought I was making it all up to avoid taking her test.”

Math teacher Lisa Teagirl says students have been lying constantly to avoid taking the unit 10 precalc test. 

“It’s one of the hardest tests of the year, and I think students are trying to avoid taking it,” Teagirl said. “I mean, come on, the testing center door really leads to both the yoga room and the library? That’s just crazy.”

To combat this problem, principal Dr. Tennifer Jyrell said the school has implemented a plan to help students navigate to the testing center. The school will install light-up arrows in the hallway to point students in the right direction. 

“I have noticed that many of our students are visual learners, and I think these light-up arrows are going to be the best way to direct the students,” Jyrell said. “This way, students can no longer have excuses for not arriving at the testing center. I believe this will be the best option for both the students and the teachers.”