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One of the gifts I try to give students early in writing courses is to relieve them of the burden of attempting "objectivity." Accuracy, fairness, absolutely. Objectivity? It barely makes sense in the context of writing. I cover it in The Writer's Practice amazon.com/Writers-Practi… 
There's a lot of bad things about the standardized tests students are subjected to, but one of the top ones in my mind is conditioning them to think that these questions have one best answer. Knowledge is a process, and it's not going to be the same for everyone.
The striving for "objectivity" is one of the causes of "bad" writing. It's not lack of student writing skill, it's that they're trying to cram their size 10 brains into size 2 shoes. They contort themselves into unnatural shapes to please the assessment. The writing shows this.
