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Presumably you are going into engineering... English is important, a good chunk of my job involves communicating with other people effectively. I won't mention why history is important because I am biased in that I really love history as a subject.
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Well, personally, I love being well rounded, and I like when everyone else around me is well rounded. It lowers the possibility of history repeating itself, allows for intelligent cross-curriculum discourse, and makes enjoying both works of fiction and natural creations much more invigorating. But I don't need that to be an engineer, if all I'm gonna do is engineering. And that's my point; being a successful member of society means being able to do a job, but also means knowing the context of the job. If I was just studying engineering, I wouldn't want me to vote on the future of this nation. The problem is, as you mentioned, that the results of standardized tests are not used correctly to further that goal.