Do Grades Really Tell You About How Smart One Person is?

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There are a lot of students in our generation that are as intelligent as their grades show them to be. This is because they work hard to prove themselves to everybody, but a grade does not fully reflect the intelligence of a student. Somebody brilliant could be hiding behind a letter grade that they “earned.” For some students it’s a simple misunderstanding or an absence had gotten in the way, while other students just choose not to show their full potential.
It is unachievable to completely understand someone's intelligence. An IQ test can’t even fully ascertain the meticulous concept of the capable intelligence. Grades only echo a small meaningless portion of knowledge that may never be used in our lives ever again. To claim that one letter grade determines the full knowledge of one single person is as if saying it’s easily acceptable to openly destroy a person simply for their differentiality.
The human brain is more complex and capable than most of our generation choose to acknowledge. Quizzes and tests are helpful in bringing forth some of the collective memory a human stores away. This memory is accompanied by many other skills like reasoning, time awareness, judgement, and stress management. There is a possibility of other skills that come in on the way. These skills are needed in future everyday lives If we ignore the fact that we are not actually realizing the reality of our situation, we will forever forget that grades mean much less than we acknowledge.
As we go to graduate, our friends and family smother us in compliments claiming us to have "full knowledge" and then put us on a pedestal with "possibilities" of geniusness. Anybody can understand the things going on around them and figure out a solution; like ...

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...d before throwing us under. We know, from experience, that it's painful for somebody to measure one's capabilities by a single letter grade. We know that that specific grade doesn't fully speak the truth, unless we let it.

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