We also have this in our country. Elementary, middle and high school grades have stopped reflecting objectively a studentâs mastery of the subject. Then comes the baccalaureate exams which most teenagers fail, then everyone sheds crocodile tears.
The curriculum may or may not be relevant for todayâs rapidly changing jobs landscape, but in my book whoever applies themself to learning and grinding will build the discipline needed to succeed professionally, later on.
That is because students and parents are butt hurt when Precious doesnât get the grade they feel they deserve and they terrorize teachers and administrators until they get a good grade to make them go away. Often these grades are good enough that an unqualified student now academically exceeds (on paper) another competitor for a popular program say, medicine.
The irony is that the kid with the butt hurt who is not qualified in any way to become a doctor will end up as a proctologist and hurt your butt.
Ainât the universe great?
I read that Belgium is one of the countries that fails most students.
In high school 30% of students have to redo a year. And in uni more than 50% fail to pass their first year.
Canada is offended by this and is working furiously at sucking harder than Belgium in this area soon. I promise.
My college didnât prepare me for my state exam. I thought it was all good because I passed their exam and took the state exam, failed by one question.
Edit: maybe my grades were inflated.
What Iâve increasingly noticed in my 28 years of being online is the number of people who regard scoring less than 85% or so on a test/less than A- as proof that they have failed. To put it bluntly, itâs a ridiculous and psychologically harmful state of affairs. The same thing goes with high range IQ tests. You have some thinking that getting 29/30 is proof of failure.
You have to question the worthiness of an education system that has resulted in pupils/students like that.
I come from a generation when getting 70% or over wouldâve resulted in a top A or O level result.There was no wailing and gnashing of teeth if you got less than 80% on a class assignment.
I think it is similar to what kids sports are like nowadays. In which they donât want anyone feeling like a loser so every team gets a trophy irregardless of what place they finished. I think it might be the same in academics where the teachers are feeling sorry for the students who are doing poorly so they make the grading easier. And the teachers think they are helping the students by making the grading easier.
I dont know about education system, but the economic system in general needs a better way of improving and finding the value in people. College and university education is not doing a good job.
My daughterâs friend texted her and wroteâŚâI readed two books last week.â She got into College.
I donât know about other countries, but one of the main aims of the âNew Labourâ government was to get 50% of young people into university. In the mid 1970s, when I was of the age to go to university/polytechnic,14% were participating in higher education. 50th percentile =100 IQ 86th percentile = 116 IQ. How much did that drive to get more people into university affect grading? Thatâs a question I would.
*would ask 2024 2024
People treat it as merely a means to an end
Completely missing the point
University was or may still be the greatest opportunity to learn independently that anyone could get in their life times
The balance between study and partying is very lopsided - even back in 2010-13 when I was there
Personal growth is the outcome you need, and the rest will come with time
But thatâs just my view
I was not mature enough at 18 to do it, which is why I went to university at age 22/23
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