"Agreement with the Giving up Credit Policy"
"The Giving up credit policy is useful for solving the institutional problems of the university."
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.”
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.”
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.”
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