Advantages and disadvantages of grading system?

Answer 1

Advantages:- Students feel less stress with grading system. Some students work hard for whole the year but can't do better at the exam time grading system is very helpful for those students.

Disadvantage:- Students that have gain position in the class they couldn't find the point to point difference as this system work approximate % age.

Other than this:-

Advantages:

1. More students take rigorous courses.

2. More challenging courses can be offered.

3. It increases a student's GPA.

4. Higher class rankings for those who take more demanding courses.

5. Students are more competitive with peers from other schools with weighted grading for first-choice and

more elite college acceptance.

6. Better chance for students to receive more in scholarship monies.

7. More likelihood for students to have higher self-esteem

Disadvantages:

1. Lack of consistency from school to school as to what courses are weighted and how much they are

weighted.

2. Not all courses, even honors and AP, are equally demanding.

3. It may send a message to those who are taking regular courses, that their work is not as highly valued

as weighted classes, which may lower self-esteem and attempts to strive for high grades.

4. College admissions offices tend to look at the overall GPA and not if the grades had been weighted.

5. If a student is afraid of getting a low grade in a more rigorous course, he/she may opt to take a less

demanding course in order to earn a higher grade.

6. Tracking of students could become more common.

7. Students at the lower academic end of the spectrum would not have equal opportunities to take a more

engaging academic program.

8. Litigation by parents may occur if they believe the system is hindering their child(ren) from equal

access to the curriculum.

9. Smaller schools have fewer opportunities to offer a wide array of weighted and non-weighted courses.