Monthly Archives: October 2017

Take Honesty More Seriously or Higher Grades?

Grade 9, Language and Literature

“Test Make Differences on Grades.”

The power of test by Daphne Gray-Grant is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Are you feeling enjoyable when you go to school? or do you go to school every day with painful and tired feeling? Do we go to school to learn or do we go to school just for getting the diploma to graduate from school? In this post, we will be focusing on how important grades are for students and it might cause them to use an inappropriate way in order to get higher grades in school.

Mostly, students will take grades very seriously especially in high school because from my research on ThoughtCo. about “Do My Grades Really Matter?”, High school grades matter most if students have hopes of going to college and grades were one of the big factors that colleges may consider when they are deciding rather accept or deny a student. By this result, most students will carefully take every graded assignment seriously in order to get a better college in the future years from their freshman year to their senior year.

However, some students were too eager to get good grades, so they try to use any ways in order to pass the test or finish the assignments perfectly such as getting assistance from others, copy others work, or even trade answers with each other. By using those ways, students might get an extremely perfect score but they had already violated the policy called the “academic dishonesty policy”.

The academic dishonesty policy is a policy in school that students did any dishonest or unfair action on their any academic works. It included plagiarism, cheating, copying, lying, tampering, or having any assistance from any other person. It was also saved in our school‘s high school handbook, on Page 33. However, there’s also a policy that kept students away from cheating, plagiarism…etc, and it was also known as the academic honesty policy. From my research on the website University of Georgia about academic honesty policy. The deeper and more briefly meaning of this policy is meant to be performing all academic work without plagiarism, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, giving or receiving unauthorized assistance from any other person, or using any source of information that is not common knowledge without properly acknowledging the source. By this policy, students will not be able to get a higher score by some inappropriate ways.

From my perspective on being a student, I hope I will get good grades in every assignment and I know that it’s hard to be that successful and perfect in an appropriate way. By knowing this, the only thing we can do is to put the best effort in every assignment but don’t expect it to be all straight A. Besides that, I think the main purpose of study is not just for getting a good grade, it’s more like being more relax and un-pressured while learning and always have a great attitude to learn more stuff during the school life of your life career.

 

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