Eleventh grade

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…

Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy about whether or not colleges should abolish reliance on SAT or ACT scores in the admissions process. Many believe that colleges should indeed do away with relying on these scores, and for multiple, valid reasons. The two exam scores play an unjust and inaccurate role in determining the admission of students into a college or university. The scores primarily measure the students ' test-taking abilities. College students are expected to…

the beginning of 7th grade in Waipahu Intermediate School. That student was a boy named Jarren Calizo. In Elementary, Jarren was a very determined academic student who always strived for ME (meets exceeds) grades, the elementary version of an A, and ended up achieving perfect grades every time. He worked independently a lot of times and helped confused classmates. During the summer of 2013, Jarren made a goal that he would achieve solid straight A’s throughout his entire 7th grade year. However,…

there was something my moms were right about. My moms raised me with a strong set of morals, including, “hard work pays off.” Sometimes this can be discouraging, when you work hard but it doesn’t pay off as you’d like it to. I’ve always gotten the grades I strive for without much struggle. However, once high school started,…

Throughout this semester, I have had many challenges. From taking too many classes, along with working my very first job, to dropping two classes and barely passing the ones that I am still taking. Although the challenges did affect me and how my performance in English 102, that is not an excuse. I have been using my challenges as a crutch for too long. My mother always told me, "God comes first, then school and everything else will fall in line." I always heard her say it, but I never listened.…

have myself to blame. My weaknesses as a writer played a significant role during my struggle last semester, including procrastination, organization, and run on sentences. Although I have always had these weaknesses, I have usually received exemplary grades in writing because I have a natural ability for it and a wide-ranging vocabulary. This semester I will focus on how I can overcome my weaknesses, expand my vocabulary,…

According to the Child’s Defense fund website, the U.S Census Bureau claimed that in 2015, 43.1 million people were poor, and one in three were children. As this website stated, “about 20% of children were poor in 2015, compared to 12.4% of people ages 18-64 and 8.8% of people ages 65 and older” (childrensdefense.org). Poverty is when you have insufficient amount of income to obtain even the basic needs to survival, such as food and shelter, for you or your family. Children living in poverty…

As of this moment in time I do not know what I will do with these situations I am presented with. How I made my decision was very rational, but also impulsive,one day me and my friend were sitting at a diner and we started to discuss how my 11th grade year was going so I told him it was going very well and I…

by homework 10%, quizzes 10%, papers 25%, midterm 25% and final grade 30%. After all the information of the students was provided, the average in general was solved by using the Excel program. The Excel program solved everything, I just typed in the information that was provided and the equation for the program found the solution. It came to the conclusion, that the students final grade came out to be a 77% which gives us a letter grade of a C. Everything is done by Excel, but it is possible to…

are going to reestablish ourselves in the world market of education. There is a new concept regarding the grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the process of dropping traditional grades and grading systems and creating a new method to chart the progress of students and at the same time reward them for their efforts,…