Name: 好成績很重要嗎？ (Do Good Grades Matter?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:09:00.000Z
Duration: 3 min 29 s
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- [Voiceover] Most of a person's young life

waking up every day at the crack of dawn,

"Is my life predetermined by the grades I get in school?"

and think that they measure intelligence.

Probably would have made things a lot easier.

- OK, I think I guess high school grades matter

- [Voiceover] A 2013 NPR poll found that nearly 40%

feels high levels of school related stress.

reports that anxiety in children and young adults

of high schooler's little malleable minds,

do standardized tests truly measure intelligence?

I consider myself a pretty intelligent dude,

and I just got an average score on the SATs,

so I think there's something wrong with the SAT.

- The SAT's bad because it measures how well

rather than how much intelligence you actually have.

is that these tests are unable to account

for important areas, like critical thinking,

the National Association of Colleges and Employers,

only use a 3.0 as a GPA cutoff for employment.

are formulating their curriculums around the test.

This is believed to be a result of incentive systems

put in place by the Department of Education

that rewards schools with higher test scores.

A proposal by New York governor Andrew Cuomo

correlate to the result of their student's scores.

Education should be fluid and expressive,

What if you just want to paint some stuff

If you're looking to pursue a path of higher education,

The amount of effort you put into something

will always say more than a letter on a report card.