In such an era with rapid development and filled with high competition, both schools and students pay more attention to achieve high grades. As a result, some pressures of study are put on our students. Some people hold that the pressure will do harm to the students and lead them to a boring future. In my opinion, we should put grades in a right place to promote all-round development of our students.
The pressure can help our students to obtain concrete fundamental knowledge. All students have the experience that it is the pressure to achieve high grades in tests motivates us to study harder and enables us to grasp the essences of the subjects. For example, if you want to get a high grade in a mathematics examination, you have to understand basic theories and use them to resolve specific problems. The resolution process will help you to understand related theories. If you have no the pressure to get a high score, you will not try your best to understand the theories, say nothing of practicing many times to utilize them to get the essences. The pressure, in fact, activates our students to learn more efficiently.
The pressure also can help our students to develop omnipotent ability. In the formal education, we hope our students can be all-round ones. We expect our students can be not only healthy, happy and successful but decent, strong and good. However, our students are so young that they might not be interested in some difficult but important courses which can improve key ability. If there is no pressure to push them to learn the courses, they will refuse to take related classes. With the pressure, students have to take these courses seriously. Probably they will find those courses very interesting and develop related ability happily. As a result, our students can be cultivated to a person with all basic ability, which lead them to a happy future.
On the other hand, if the importance of grades is overstated, students will pay
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