Argumentative Essay: Learning Vs. Grading System

Learning vs. Grading System
When schools first started, the motive was to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers. Similar grading standard has been followed for years to evaluate students, now is the time to change our education system as grading system affects learning and education of students. Students cannot be good or bad learners just based on couple questions asked by instructors or professors on a piece of paper known as a test. Grades can be a process of students’ evaluation, but it is not the sole way to decide whether a student is smart or not. Grading must not be a part of education system because grades discourage learning with an increase in stress and no learning, motivating cheating, and pampering relationship among student-teachers and other fellow students.
Getting good grades is the main motto of students when they start a class at school, but students end up …show more content…
I sent him an email after I saw my final percentage on the class website and asked him what letter grade would I get? He replied me back asking what I would like to see on my transcript, even though it was obvious that an A sounds better than a B. I still replied him on email asking if I could get an A since I am so close, but professor gave me a B grade instead of an A telling me that computer system picked up the grades already. When I took next programming class, I took a different professor instead of him because of our spoilt student teacher