Is grading students helping or defeating the purpose of education.

Apr 12
11:31

2016

Mr. David Thompson

Mr. David Thompson

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Grades and Peer Pressure how does this affect the minds of the student.

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The current education system in our country is not the best system to follow. While examinations depict the comparative competition among peers,Is grading students helping or defeating the purpose of education. Articles it also creates a seemingly detrimental effect on the students of the same class. The current education system sheds more light and emphasis on completing a course in its stipulated time withought being fully efficient in the course. It could be compared to a general example of handing a person a unicycle even after the person is not fully efficient in riding a bicycle. The system grades the students on their efficiency and then they expect these same students to run the world.Coming to peer pressure, while there are certain students who are sharp and can complete a stipulated course in a certain period of time, similarly there are others who are not eually efficient in it.

This createsa psychological restriction in the further tasks that await the student. While 2 out of 10 students have the ability to go to Harvard for graduation,there are as well ' the not - so - bright' students who are primarily neglected and cannot manage to get into an Ivy League College.

Another impotant argument can be given regarding the restrictions of the current grading system.Salman Khan, the Founder of the  online assignment help classroom, The Khan Academy, states that most students are not bright in every single topic. There are a varity of students who may be good at aritmetic but may not be equally efficient at algebra, but peer pressure and teacher favouritism of the predominantly strong students leads to further problems. He also states that if the efficient student could explain the weaker student about the topic, then revolutionisimg education would not be an impossible task.Lesser marks ultimately hamper future scope for higher education and finally hampers the scope for a
job.