Issue Essay- Class competition,High Grades-Quality of learning

Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality of real learning.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

Knowledge and grades are two diverse aspects of the education. A person who earns good grades does not necessarily have sound knowledge, and a person with sound knowledge does not necessarily have a good academic back ground.

In case students are guided to get good grades they only reproduce what they have been taught, cramping of the things became a common practice in this case, which results in limiting the quality of the real learning.

Competition among students to get good grades destroys the learning of the students as they only focus on the few things. Learning with a purpose of learning is totally different from learning for a purpose of getting marks. It is a common observation that student focus on the selective topics which they expect to appear in the exam, or which the teacher point to be important. Conversely they let all or many of the other topics aside, which are less important from an exam point of view, which although are as important as the others.

Other aspect of this practice has worsening effects on the mental as well as physical health of students. In early school days when students realize that to be at the first position is what their parents expect from them, they start working to the point and put pressure on the minds, which does not only decrease efficiency but also limits their thinking abilities. During the early days of schooling if they are told to learn from point A to point B, their brains would be trained in the same ways, thus worsening the capacity of the brain to think out of the box. It is essential for the brain to think properly for its proper growth and nourishment. In addition to that students also feel physical weakness as a result of the mental pressure. This is why because the disease of exam fever has been emerged during the past few years.

Concluding, it is essential for the teachers and the educational institutions to give free hand and to judge the students from several perspectives as only getting good marks does not predict the better capabilities of students. There are many examples like Mark Zukerberg, who although were not high scorers in the class, but they proved that they have the real talent and made a big difference among all others. Therefore competition for high grades is not a good way of learning in a class room.

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