Midterms, and tests in general, are boring, useless, and a waste of time. There’s no way to standardize knowledge, so it’s impossible to standardize a test of knowledge. All they do is waste time and stress people out for something totally unproductive and useless as an actual test of one’s knowledge. There are ways to test knowledge that one possesses, but those methods cannot be standardized as knowledge isn’t standardized, nor are the ways in which one best exhibits their abilities.