Academic grades seem to be life and death for students. Without a high score, a student cannot feel vociferous, creative, intellectual, or introspective owing to the bad performance in the class. Foregrounding the pressing issues of all students grappling with an immense burden of studies and the fear of getting high grades, I vocalize my opinions for all students to provide them a beacon of hope in such a competitive world. I agree with the concept of getting high grades, but is this the right way to judge the ability of a student? It is not an injustice for those underprivileged students who have weak academic backgrounds but are still striving for excellence. A plethora of questions hit my mind when I see the obsession of young students with getting high scores.

It is needless to say the minds of these students are shaped by such a societal structure in which creative thinking seems lost and heaps of good scores matter a lot. For instance, in the Dawn article “Higher Grades Obsession has Negative Effects: CIE Chief,” Mansoor Malik states that Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) Michael O’Sullivan posits that “Students and their parents are becoming obsessed with higher grades in examinations and called for limiting this tendency, saying it has negative effects.” Although the fear of not getting high grades urges students to study more, according to Sullivan, one may conjecture that such obsession leads to a worthless life. By ‘worthless life,’ I mention my standpoint........

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