Grades Vs Comprehension, Debate Options

[*Programmer*]

When it comes to Academic "Comprehension". Students tend to worry more about getting an "A" in there classes by remembering the work temporoary with no intension after taking a test or quiz to apply it to there everyday lives. rather then learning the work and applying it into there everyday use so they won't be caught off guard by it again. they forget about it and are just happy with the grade they recieve afterward.

i do admit some work may seem pretty irrelivant. but why does the grade matter more then the work that you should be comprehending and applying to your everyday life. as long as you comprehend it correctly you should be ok. You are at school to learn or that is what i was lead to believe.

NOW...... The "grade" is a alphebetic rating system which a school uses to categorize your strenghs and weaknesses...YOU SHOULD NOT SEE THE GRADE AS THE ONLY REASON YOU ARE DOING ALL THIS WORK. and as such...you should only use it as a TOOL to learn more in the area's you and your teacher feel you need work on. . The Work is what you should be comprehending. NOT THE GRADE. I feel learning is it's own reward.

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How do you feel about this..? please don't hesitate to disagree with me

[sadolakced acid]

on the contrary, i know C students who have much more knoledge than A students.

but the reality in real life is skills, not knowledge.

so what if you had to google for the answer, as long as you could get the answer.

[*RiC3xBoy*]

on the contrary, i know C students who have much more knoledge than A students..

Me too, but there are more A students who are smarter than C.

[dancerellie714]

Me too, but there are more A students who are smarter than C.

not necessarily. if you have a student in a college level class of a subject making a C and a student in an extremely lower level class making an A....the person making a C is probably smarter than the student making an A.

grades are relative to the class you're taking. it's just like with GPAs and how some classes count for more points on the scale because they're harder. the B in the hard class is worth as much as the A in the lower class.

anyways back to the 'comprehension' thing. in a perfect world everyone would remember everything that they ever learned in school, but the fact is, we're human. we cant possibly remember all of it...plus the actual knowledge isnt the part that is being taught in some classes. let's take math for example, i personally will never need to know the sin/cos/tan rules and what the graphs look like after i'm finished with school, and no one else will either, but the point of math class (and the sin/cos/tan rules) is to learn to think logically. Logic is what you're gaining from math and you dont just forget logic. you learn things from school that they arent spoon feeding you from a textbook.