According to "Growth in The United Nations Member, 1945-2003", now there are 191 countries in the world. Almost all the countries have schools. In school, we get not only knowledge from teachers but also learn socialization skill from peer group; therefore, school takes a great important role in adolescent, and education enables us to broaden our perspective. When we evaluate student's academic achievement, we adapt the grading system. In the United States, A-F grading system is mainly adapted. However, it sometimes causes students a lot of problems.
             Under the A-F grading system, students feel much academic pressure, and they study hard more than necessary to keep good GPA or to get scholarship. For example, suicide, bullying, drug use and prostitution, which are attributable to the rigorous educational system, are played up in the newspapers, and we are always surprised. Some school teachers and parents who support the A-F grading system never allow getting away from academic rigor and competition. They always say platitudinously that you study hard or you cannot go to a good university or get a better job. Student's will and characteristic don't exist there. I do believe that we abolish the A-F grading system and adopt the pass/fail grading system instead.
             The most serious problem of the A-F grading system is academic pressure. Some teachers gave students an A or B easily to relieve their pressure. I took one course whose test is almost the same format as review sheets, and I got an A. However, I did not receive knowledge or feel a sense of mastery, which makes me a better person. It only leads to lower academic performance that teachers give an A or B easily. Pass-/fail grading system can get rid of wasteful academic stress from students, and at the same time, they can pursue a subject of interest without caring about their grade or GPA. "In Students Evaluate Pass-Fail", author Sean Amos, who i...