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Some people think that offering
students with grades did not affect students to study. However, in my opinion, providing
grades will promote students’ passion for learning. This is because it gives students
confidence and, otherwise, it leads unfair judgements of scores.
To begin with, students can gain confidence
and belief that they can have great test score. The range of A grade, the highest
grade in Korean universities, is so wide that all students would have the grade
if they did their best. I will illustrate my friend’s story as an example. When
he was a freshman at university, he had a micro-economic class. He did not wanted
to take the class because of the fear of his exam, but that was the requisite
course for students who were majoring in economics. However, the professor said
that he would give more A score to students than the last semester because he
have gotten many calls from students that wanted to fix grades. As soon as he
heard the professor’s notification, he got confidence and studied really hard
to achieve the highest point. As a result, he got it. This example shows that
grading system give students to feel confident.
On top of that, if professors gave absolute scores
to students without grades, it could be unfair. Then, it leads them to feel
depressed. When students noticed that professors did not give grades, they will
study the way to attract the professors’ interest in lieu of the significant
role of studying. For example, there was a poll conducted by a university
newspaper columnist in Seoul University in 2016 with social science professors
as respondents. The purpose of the survey was to understand the consensus view
of grading system as a professor. The majority of respondents answered that
they agreed the system in place of scoring with their absolute perspectives. An
overwhelming 72% had responded that they agreed. Many of them said that the scoring
by personal views could result in many errors. This survey proves that giving grades
will promote studying.
In a nutshell, providing students with grades
has many advantages than offering absolute and personal scores. In this regard,
I firmly believe that students will feel achievement and desire to study when
they have grades.
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