Scores!! Scores?? Scores?!

Scores will score good scores,
What can we infer from them?
Will we be knowledgeable citizens?
Or just laymen with huge recollections?

Do scores have a role, even when the questions are easily predicted?
Or is it just a formality, that needs to be completed?
Do scores reflect test-taker's expertise, or the test's level of ease?
Or do they show one's capacity to mug up, or one's ability to duplicate?

A dolt who can't tell a lion from a buck,
Gets great scores by sheer luck;
Who's the culprit of the dolt's duncehood;
The tester, the testee or the proctor?

Concepts are the core we fail to comprehend,
And use the scores to defend,
Parents and peers we may offend,
But, eventually, against what else to fend?

The clever judge their own scores, assimilate the data,
The less endowed compare;
Anxiety, depression, fury - the emotions run wild,
The dust settles in the desert of lost hope.

Scores are stars, but can we land on them?
We need a check, seldom, but we need not depend.