Yostivanich

I saw this very clearly when I was in school. Grades don’t reflect your apti­tude, intel­li­gence, or under­stand­ing of the sub­ject mat­ter. You don’t need to actu­ally learn much use­ful mate­r­ial to get good grades. (And many of those who learn excep­tion­ally well don’t get good grades.)

via Marco.org – School grades are hope­lessly bro­ken. Yet another in the long list of peo­ple for whom grades don’t mat­ter and are worth­less mea­sures of abil­ity. The larger prob­lem isn’t that grades as they exist are a bro­ken sys­tem, but that we don’t have any good con­cept of some­thing that can scale to deal with mil­lions of stu­dents and yet still cap­ture exactly how much knowl­edge a sin­gle stu­dent actu­ally cap­tured and is able to apply years later.