Pass Or Fail Grades

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Tyrik Sann
Vrieze, Nikka
ENGL 0950 02
6 December, 2017
Importance of Grades Throughout the years of having a letter grade, I believe we should keep it that was rather then changing it to a pass or fail grade. The past years of having a letter grade has an amazing positive side and that pass or fail grade just doesn’t has a lot of positives. Some of the positives in a letter grade is getting into colleges you want so your future and knowing where you are at in the class. One negative about having a pass or fail grade is if you fail you won’t know where you’re really at so you have to guess if you need to work on a general area. Getting into colleges with the grade you want. Having a letter grade is so much better because colleges can look at your grades and see what you got. Say you’re trying to going to Harvard and they will look at your grades and it’s not as great as they wanted it to be. They can say no to you and they won’t care because they have a reason to. Your grades in high school will matter for colleges because it will determine where you can go. This is one main reason why letter grades are better. …show more content…

If you didn’t know where you were then how would you know where to need to get help in, like say you fail a test and it brings you down a letter grade, you have to study more and get a better so you can bring your grade back up. Having a letter grade tells you that you may need to work harder or keep up the pace you’re at. Having a pass or fail grade wouldn’t tell you things you wouldn’t know like a letter grade. Some letter grades allow you to get extra credit so you can get little points to boost your grade but a little. This is the second main reason why letter grades are way better than a pass or fail

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