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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
It is well known that most students care about grades and that nearly all of modern countries take grades as an important role to assess students’ performances. I definitely agree that grades (marks) encourage students to learn because grades ensure fairness, examine studying effect and provide an environment of competition.
First, grade-centred evaluation system, although imperfect, provides a just and fair chance for all of the students to get better education. For instance, during annal national collage-entrance examination in China, enormous amount of senior high students take part. No matter which province they are from, what financial situations their familes have, each students have the oppotunity to enter desirable collages as long as they get higher scores. On the contrary, without exams, many students and their families would lose faith in the university selection process and accuse authorities of corruption.
Secondly, grades (marks) are not only valuable as a kind of criterion, they also help both teachers and students to check up how well they have taught and studied in a certain period. For teachers, they can instruct those students who get poor grades in time and encourage those who get higher ones to accept more challenging tasks. For students,they will find their disadvantages and then study hard to make up. For instance, after I got a poor score in speaking in my first TOEFL test, I realize my weakness and work hard in order to elevate my ability in spoken English.
What is more, apart from associated with learning effect, grades (marks) help students to develop a sense of competitive spirit. By encouraging students improve their grades, their competitive capacities among peers are strengthened. As we all know, in this repaid-developing world, competition is nearly in everywhere. The earlier this habit is raised, the more benefits the students will get when they enter the society. Therefore, grades (marks) are beneficial for students in the long run.
To sum up, grades (scores) are of vital importance. They are fair method of evaluation, touchstone of studying effect and necessity for a competitive spirit. Sure, grade (mark) cannot be regarded as the only way to assess a student, overall performances of students in school are also significant. However grades are still one of irreplaceable factors to encourage students to learn.
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