It used to be the case that at most universities only a few students received the highest grades. But professors today routinely give a majority of their students’ grade that looks far beyond their real performance. This is sometimes known as “grade inflation”. Although this practice has its critics, it seems virtually irreversible. Actually, grade inflation has become a brick in the building of general social expectations and it can no more be changed at this point for quite a few reasons.
First, since most students today are getting accustomed to receiving higher grades, they have taken the fact of receiving big scores as granted. Therefore, once professors start to grade strictly, some students may be frustrated by the scores lower than expected and then lose interest in their further academic pursuits.
Second, professors have the concern that once they stop granting inflated scores to less qualified students, there is a good chance that they may also receive lower evaluations from those students as a result. Usually, students’ evaluation matters a lot in determining if a professor will get a promotion or simply keep his position in the future.
Third, high marks help students sell in the job market, because employers generally believe that good scores stand for high qualities of the students. Therefore, students receiving inflated grades have apparent advantages over those who are graded strictly in school.
Nowadays, there is a ubiquitous phenomenon that professors tend to give higher grades to a majority of their students which may even go beyond their performance. When it comes to the reasons, those professors say that higher scores will not only make students interested in college courses, get much more job opportunities after graduation, but also bring in good feedback from students in return.
However, from my perspective, this phenomenon is nothing but a hypocritical mask. The reasons why I reckon so are not far to seek. Here come the most important ones. To begin with, high grades represent nothing except for diligence. As we all know, at present, college examinations are not reliable enough, because teachers will give students test range. As long as students work hard before the test, they can get high grades. Secondly, as college students, on no account should they just care about grades but the round-development instead. By spending too much time on how to get higher grades, they actually waste too much valuable time which should have been spent on extracurricular activities. As a result, they don’t have an alluring resume when graduating, only to lose employment opportunities. Lastly, whether a teacher is responsible, good, and popular or not should not be solely judged by students, but also by their peers, their teaching results and their contributions to the college.
To sum up, giving higher grades blindly does nothing good to students. What professors should do is to tell the truth and judge students properly. Only in this way can both benefit from it.
文章围绕“学习成绩与学生表现”展开论述。第一段指出如今存在的普遍现象，学生的学习成绩与平时表现 不符，教师通常给学生过高的分数。第二段阐明作者的观点，即这种做法有害无益。成绩的高低只能客观 地反映学生的学习能力，因此，分数的高低不能成为衡量学生的唯一标准。第三段重申论点，教师应该客 观公正地衡量学生，盲目地打高分于事无补。