Advantages Of Grading System

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The grading system is designed to commend students for getting good grades and shun students for receiving bad ones. This is done to give students an incentive to learn the material, because if there were no reasons to get good grades, then students would not try at all. It is not only beneficial for students to get good grades because of the praise; but, because they will inevitably need to learn the material if they want to get good grades. The school board should keep the policies they have in place and students should really strive to earn good marks.
Students in today’s day and age genuinely want to learn the material they are being taught. They understand that if they learn the concepts that it will not only help them live a successful …show more content…

If their child is performing poorly, they should be informed about the problem. Equally important, if their child is excelling in their school work, they should also know about this. Without a proper grading system, this would not be possible. The grading system is designed in a manner that the better an individual does on a specific assignment, the higher a grade the student will receive. A problem that arises is when students are solely focused on receiving a good grade. If they don’t have any other extra goals in addition to a good grade, the student is most likely to cheat ("Students Cheat for Good Grades. Why Not Make the Classroom about Learning and Not Testing?"). This may be an …show more content…

If the pupil is earning good grades on all of their assignments, not only will he/she be getting a good grade in the class, but they will understand the concepts exceptionally well. On the other hand, a student would not understand the concepts thoroughly if they are cheating and receiving extra help throughout the course. “In most cases, grades (rather than education and learning) have become the major focus of many Central students. “Grades nowadays don’t reflect what students get out of the class,” Sophomore Mehow Podstawski said. ‘I could understand a class completely and get a B, while a girl who sits right next to me can just do whatever she needs to do and get an A, and not understand anything about what’s going on’” (Hau, “Story of the Week: Academic Pressures Lead to Increase in Cheating."). Like the girl in this example that was doing whatever it took to get the “A”, a student who cheats will never get what they are supposed to out of a specific class. You are only hurting yourself if you cheat because you will not learn the material as well as was

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