Grades (marks) encourage students to learn

[Irchuk]

Hello Kitos
Thanks in advance for checking my essay.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

While some people assert that grades are an effective instrument to estimate students' knowledge, and they foster students to study harder, I consider the opposite side of view. For me, grading system often courses craftiness and demotivation among students. My points of view will be elaborated and exemplified bellow.

First and foremost, in this case students are studying for the sake of good marks, not knowledge. It is well known that a high mark does not always mean deep cognizance of a subject. Student can be only superficially aware of this subject, but he or she can find a variety of ways to achieve excellent marks. For instance, he or she may exploit another truly erudite student, get into teacher's favour by flattery, and so on. According to my own experience, many students at my university tried to get high grades in order to receive a scholarship. For this purpose they were not really interested in what they were studying. They read and learnt only the information that was useful for their final exams. For example, we knew that our professor at the economy class used to give questions based just on his notes and on one book written by another author. That is why students did not read anything else except for these two resources. They were not interested in the economic specialised magazines, foreign author's books or economic news despite of economics was their major.

In addition, I believe that grades can be not as encouragement, but as firm demotivation. It is common when a student is interested in a subject, attends all classes, reads a lot of material, spends his/her full time to learn as much as possible, but because of some circumstances fails on the final exam. As a result, unfortunately, he or she may easy lose this eager to study. This can be illustrated by my first year at the university when I was inexperienced in passing exams that were based on the multiple choice questions. As a freshman I studied diligently, but because I used to answer the open questions and write essays at school, it was very difficult for me during my first exam to distinguish the differences between right and false answers, and to eliminate incorrect ones. Therefore, I received a low mark, and in the next semester my willingness to study hard was diminished.

To crown it all, I disagree with the blanket statement that grades sustain longing for learning. From my point of view, a grade system may decrease the quality of studying, and have negative influence on the desire to study.

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[Kitosdad]

Hello Kitos
Thanks in advance for checking my essay.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

While some people assert that grades are an effective instrument to estimate students' knowledge, and they foster students to study harder, I prefer the opposite point of view. For me, the grading system often causes craftiness and retards motivation among students. My points of view will be elaborated and exemplified below.

First and foremost, in this case students are studying for the sake of good marks, not knowledge. It is well known that a high mark does not always mean deep cognizance of a subject. Student can be only superficially aware of this subject, but he or she can find a variety of ways to achieve excellent marks. For instance, he or she may exploit another truly erudite student, get into teacher's favour by flattery, and so on. According to my own experience, many students at my university tried to get high grades in order to receive a scholarship. For this purpose they were not really interested in what they were studying. They read and learnt only the information that was useful for their final exams. For example, we knew that our professor at the economy class used to give questions based just on his notes and on one book written by another author. That is why students did not read anything else except for these two resources. They were not interested in the economic specialised magazines, foreign author's books or economic news despite the fact that economics was their major.

In addition, I believe that grades should not be used as an encouragement, but as a restriction to further progress of the tudent. It is common when a student is interested in a subject, attends all classes, reads a lot of material, spends his/her full time to learn as much as possible, but because of some circumstances could fail on the final exam. As a result, unfortunately, he or she may easily lose this eagerness to study. This can be illustrated by my first year at the university when I was inexperienced in passing exams that were based on the multiple choice questions. As a freshman I studied diligently, but because I used to answer the open questions and write essays at school, it was very difficult for me during my first exam to distinguish the differences between right and false answers, and to eliminate incorrect ones. Therefore, I received a low mark, and in the next semester my willingness to study hard was diminished.

To crown it all, I disagree with the blanket statement that grades sustain longing for learning. From my point of view, a grade system may decrease the quality of studying, and have negative influence on the desire to study.
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Good work Irchuk. I have corrected your errors and suggest you spend some time in closely reviewing the edited work. I hope you find it helpful.

Kitos. 8/10
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[Irchuk]

Your corrections are very helpful. Thanks a lot! Sometimes it is very difficult for me to translate my thoughts into a written statement properly. But you do this so easy)

[Kitosdad]

It is easy for me, and so it should be, it is my native language. :-))
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