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RosieG

In my school days of long ago GRADES were important. You strived to get good ones. What do you strive for if grades are eliminated?

How do you measure knowledge/learning? I suppose if you take a test a PASS/FAIL would indicate that. But C- is a passing grade as is A+. I liked the comfort of knowing what I knew and what I didn't know by being graded and learning what I got wrong. Just like a Driver's Test. There is pass or fail of course BUT there are standards. You can only miss so many and then you fail the test. You are shown what you got wrong. If you fortunately get all of them right you get 100%! How do you feel about grades? Why?

Posted - May 13, 2017
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  • 1713
    I was obsessed with making A's. Unfortunately, I never really had friends because I cared too much for my grades and got annoyed when people bothered me. That's probably why they thought I was stuck up..
      May 13, 2017 5:48 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    With me it was because I was painfully shy Patch. I was a very good student. I skipped a couple of grades in grammar school. I LOVED learning. When I graduated from high school I was voted most "sophisticated". I'm not joking. It was a joke to me of course and quite absurd. Why anyone would think that of me I have no idea. I was two years younger than everyone else and socially ignorant or shall we say naive/innocent. If you get my drift. Poised? Sophisticated? Moi? I don't think I will ever recover from that. Which shows you how often people get it all wrong. If I hadn't been so shy and had known how to reach out to people I wonder what they would have voted me? I will never know. Thank you for your reply and Happy Saturday! :)
      May 13, 2017 6:43 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    I was really shy, too. I guess that's why I was so obsessed with my grades in the first place, I wasn't good at making friends so I focused on my grades. In college, I wasn't as shy but I had kind of an attitude towards people who tried to talk to me while I was working on something in my free time. I still feel bad about that.
      May 13, 2017 6:51 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    I think we're geared alike in that respect m'dear. I'm a retired Internal Auditor. To do my job I had to focus intently and not be disturbed. When folks would interrupt me for something that could wait or was trivial I was not happy. Once your concentration is broken you can't hop right back and pick up where you left off. It takes time to get back to where you were. Sometimes I didn't have the time. Patience is not my strong suit. Focus is. I guess no one is perfect. Could I have been kinder to the interrupters? That takes time. So yes I could have been but they soon learned that when my office door was closed to leave me alone. When the door was open that meant I was open for business to the outside world and they could come in and talk to me about whatever was on their minds. I have to tell you that included my boss. He was totally cool and supported me 100%! You have to establish boundaries and let other people know where yours are. If they respect you they will  honor them. If they don't they won't. But if you don't respect yourself and you let people walk all over you of course they will be glad to do so. Thank you for your additional reply Patch. :) This post was edited by RosieG at May 13, 2017 7:01 AM MDT
      May 13, 2017 7:00 AM MDT
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  • 3739
    Grades or marks are valuable as a guide, but conventional examinations miss a very important point by testing only memory on the day.

    What really matters is your ability to understand hence learn properly in general terms; and in specific areas to understand the principles while knowing how to find and use the particular knowledge to solve the particular question.
      July 18, 2017 4:19 PM MDT
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