"Agreement with the Giving up Credit Policy"


   "The Giving up credit policy is useful for solving the institutional problems of the university."

By Lee Seul-gi
Sophomore
Dept. of Veterinary Medicine
 
   Recently, some universities are introducing an abolition of credits. The abandonment of the credits is because students can give up the credits for low grade subjects, and these do not appear in their transcripts. Actually, research suggests that 41.6% of university students are in favor of abandoning these credits and 33.7% are not. Although people have loudly expressed concerns regarding the practice of making higher scores by removing classes with poor grade, I believe that abandoning the credits should be continued for the following two reasons.
   First of all, the opportunity to catch up on the score should be given to students. Relative evaluation cannot help but to create poor grades such as C, D, or F grades. However, it is hard to say that the students who get poor scores did not study hard. For example, even though my friend had attended a class sincerely and before the test she had stayed up all night for learning and memorizing her lecture notes, she got C grades because the other students wrote better answer sheets. Hence, many students concentrate on how to get an A grade only. Furthermore, they will feel more stress at the severe grade competition. 
   Second, the policy of abandonment of credits is used instead of withdrawing course applications. Because several universities do not have the regulation of dropping the courses during the semester, the students should attend the chosen classes after the first week when they can change their courses. Especially, in case where they fail “the war” of signing up for the classes, they have to choose the other department’s major subjects or the classes that are not wanted. However, as those subjects are not equal to the syllabus or more difficult than they expected, they often decide not to go to the classes and get F grade. The following is to delete poor grade subjects by the policy of abandoning credits. That is, this policy is another system for dropping the courses. 
   Although the rule of abandoning credits could be misused by a few students, it is useful for the institutional problems of the university. The first reason is that students who have poor grades even though they studied very hard because of relative evaluation should be allowed to be redeemed. Also, abandoning credits is another method for dropping the classes. Given this, it is quite clear that the policy of abandoning credit is needed.

   “A giving up credit policy is a great opportunity.”

By Jung Min-ji
Sophomore
Dept. of Psychology
   I agree with the “giving up credit policy.” There are 3 big reasons.
   First of all, it can reduce the rate of course retaking. Many students want to take courses again. They think this is better than getting unsatisfactory scores, but it has some problems. When some students retake the course in order to get better grades, the other students should get a low grade consequently. Then, the other students consider retaking courses and it causes a bad cycle. In this circumstance, this policy will be very helpful. We can erase the unwanted bad traces and the bad cycle can be stopped.
   Second, the policy can supplement the shortcoming of taking a course again. Many students take the course again because of the difficulty and the burden of the lecture. However, if policy exists, it would be a chance to remove the bad grade.
   Finally, it could liberate students from the competition for grades. A lot of students have had the experience of studying hard and getting bad scores. Hence, we have a prejudice that we can't get a good grade from the courses which we take for the first time. But, this policy can make us feel easy about the prejudice. We can be free of burdens of getting bad scores. lt is like insurance for our grades. If the school's appropriate control and students are in harmony, the giving up credit policy can be not only a simple abandonment, but a great opportunity.

 

"Disagreement with the Giving up Credit Policy"


   “I disagree with the policy because our grades are evidence of sincerity and responsibility.”

By Jin Ju-hyun
Senior
Dept. of Mechatronics
   The policy of "giving up the credit" has been discussed among students and schools. In Korea, society wants to hire a person who is more competitive. It makes students compete with colleagues, friends, and others to get better scores in school. However, originally, school is an institution which helps students to grow up by offering educational opportunities intelligently. Likewise, all universities encourage students to be appropriate people who are prepared to enter the real world. With this purpose, universities allow us to get knowledge and experience as well as responsibilities and opportunities.
   Most students who get a bad score in a course would want to give up the course in order to maintain good scores. Despite this regardless of needs, students who think that they have lower scores would be eager to remove their footprint on grades, not knowing the policy which is necessary or not. Of course, this policy would be useful for a few students. However, I disagree with the policy, because the results of our grades are evidence of our sincerity and responsibility. That's why, if we give up our credits, it means that we are trying to avoid our duty and responsibility. Besides, schools give us other chances. For example, at the beginning of the semester, we can change our courses. Even if we can't drop the course, we can decide to withdraw the courses before the mid-term exam period.
   We should realize that responsibility is one of the most important qualifications for being a member of society. Accepting the results is a part of processing to be members in our society. Therefore, the policy of "giving up credit" is not necessary.

 

   “I disagree with the policy because of upward leveling of GPA.”

By Seo Min-won
Junior
Dept. of English Language and Literature
   Up until now, so many students demanded the credit withdrawal policy at Chungnam National University. It is a convenient policy. If this policy is approved, students can withdraw their credit on their own. Thus, it will be a lot easier to maintain a good GPA. That is a good thing. College students are already under tremendous pressure, because job hunting is more competitive than ever. But the problem is, the policy itself is not going to be helpful for anybody. If this policy goes into effect, the average GPA will go up significantly. It means a 4.0 would not be the same 4.0 like it used to be. All the companies or graduate schools which require our GPA won’t take it seriously anymore, because they know we can just withdraw from classes if we want to. It will be bad news to students who got good grades, because all the other students will get good grades, too. It will also be bad news to students who did not get good grades, since everyone can raise their GPA easily, and a high GPA would not be worth much. So, it is a lose-lose strategy. Although we may take a look at it, it will not be helpful for us. I think everyone should know that.

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