Yoonsuk Jung, Blog assignment #6

A grading system is the simplest and easiest way to evaluate person’s ability in the world. However it cannot evaluate students’ inner value such as creative talent, potential capability, and cooperative spirit. Therefore, we can often find some problems like limitations in our grading system. First, our grading system is very strict and not flexible rather than fair. There is no fixed pattern or general form to evaluate our hidden abilities. It simply gives a grade like A, B, C, D, and F to students according to their test results. In addition, our grades can be differently evaluated by each different professor’s taste or preference. For instance, when I was a freshman, I took an economic class with my friend but the only different things were class time and professor. My professor focused on students’ class-participation like attendance, assignment, presentation, and discussion than exam. However, my friend’ professor only focused on two-exam results. The end of semester, we were under totally different situation. I cannot get a high grade even though I spent most my time to catch up my class and got a high grade each test. However, my friend just got a huge curve from his professor so he can easily get a high grade “A”. Second, a grading system can make trouble between students or between professor and student. The reason is that some students want to get a high grade from their class without sweat. It means that a student who does his or her best in class can be damaged. What is more, if a student did not get a high grade from his class, he complains or blames their professor’ method of grading. Therefore, a grading system could lead to a potential dispute between people who work hard and with honesty and people who lack in academic morals and cheat and copy others work getting grades that they do not deserve.